Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding (10)

Mar 12, 2009 11:14 PM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
ShareTheFire
ShareTheFireShareTheFireBarrhead, Alberta Canada1 Threads 73 Posts
Thu Mar 12, 7:31 AM
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese man who set fire to a hotel in a bid to buy himself time to chose whether to stay with his wife or marry his girlfriend was sentenced to five years jail Thursday, a court official said.
Presiding Judge Yasushi Watanabe called 40-year-old defendant Tatsuhiko Kawata "egoistic and short-sighted" and dismissed the defence argument that no-one was hurt in the fire, the Kyodo news agency reported.
Kawata, who had been married to his wife since 1994, had also been seeing another woman for about three years and promised to marry her last October at the Risonare hotel in the mountain resort of Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture.
However, on the eve of the ceremony, the still-married Kawata sought to delay the ceremony by spilling seven litres of petrol in the hotel and setting it on fire, causing minor damage and forcing the evacuations of several guests.
Prosecutors had sought six years' prison for Kawata, who pleaded guilty to the charges of arson and unauthorized entry to the hotel, a Kofu District Court official told AFP.
Mar 13, 2009 11:24 AM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
gemery
gemerygemeryWilliams Lake, British Columbia Canada5 Threads 509 Posts
Ah the tangle web we weave, when first we choose to deceive. doh

geo
Mar 13, 2009 12:44 PM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
kidatheart
kidatheartkidatheartFruitvale, British Columbia Canada30 Threads 16,544 Posts
Guess it wasn't burning love after all. laugh
Mar 13, 2009 1:28 PM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
eyesthatknowwhy
eyesthatknowwhyeyesthatknowwhyWhitehorse, Yukon Territory Canada88 Threads 1,405 Posts
dunno Frankly, it is rather frightening that females are considered to be the flipping fickle forms of the fine human species...innocent
Mar 14, 2009 8:15 AM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
ShareTheFire
ShareTheFireShareTheFireBarrhead, Alberta Canada1 Threads 73 Posts
gemery: Ah the tangle web we weave, when first we choose to deceive.

geo


It never ceases to amaze me how some people will voluntarily dig their own grave. They just gotta know that eventually the truth will come out yet they cover lies with more lies until they crash and burn. Sheesh!
Mar 14, 2009 3:49 PM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
gemery
gemerygemeryWilliams Lake, British Columbia Canada5 Threads 509 Posts
ShareTheFire: It never ceases to amaze me how some people will voluntarily dig their own grave. They just gotta know that eventually the truth will come out yet they cover lies with more lies until they crash and burn. Sheesh!


I'm with you on that.

geo
Mar 14, 2009 7:52 PM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
KHD100
KHD100KHD100Edmonton, Alberta Canada129 Threads 3 Polls 2,495 Posts
hmmm I wonder if he had a burning desire.....
Mar 14, 2009 8:15 PM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
eyesthatknowwhy
eyesthatknowwhyeyesthatknowwhyWhitehorse, Yukon Territory Canada88 Threads 1,405 Posts
KHD100: I wonder if he had a burning desire.....


rolling on the floor laughing Yah, the darn ole' ring of fire..... wave Kim!!!
Mar 14, 2009 11:18 PM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
Brew01
Brew01Brew01Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada58 Threads 1,613 Posts
Well he got to have one final hot time before being sent up the river... and he just missed the bullet not being able to marry his girlfriend, so in reflection, being sent to prison did him a favor.. a BIG favor
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Mar 15, 2009 2:45 AM CST Man Starts Fire to Avoid Wedding
gemery
gemerygemeryWilliams Lake, British Columbia Canada5 Threads 509 Posts
eyesthatknowwhy: Yah, the darn ole' ring of fire..... Kim!!!


Love Is a burning thing,
and it makes a fiery ring.
bound by wild desire
he fell into a ring of fire...got caught and gets to visit

San Tokyo that will be living hell to him for sure...

rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing just couldn't help it...

geo
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