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INTEREST: Criminal Orchestrates String of Burglaries Under Alias "Luffy"




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Sobe



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:50 pm Reply with quote
Obviously if they had any intention of escaping, they would have used "Lupin" instead of "Luffy."
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Kurohei



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:08 pm Reply with quote
What kind of pirate would take something that doesn't belong to them?
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:59 pm Reply with quote
Murder, She wrote:

Based on communication data on the suspects' mobile phones, the police believe that the robbers received instruction from "Luffy" using the Telegram messenger app. The group members appear to have been recruited through an informal recruitment ad on social media.


The rubber wants to be king of the pirates, looking for that one piece to get him there, recruiting through the power of friendship, using the Philippines' rubber plantations and abundant varieties of fruits
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:08 pm Reply with quote
Hey, I think I heard about this case on my NHK World Japan app yesterday although the article on NHK World didn't mention about them using "Luffy" as an alias.

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BadNewsBlues



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:14 pm Reply with quote
Sobe wrote:
Obviously if they had any intention of escaping, they would have used "Lupin" instead of "Luffy."


Even then their odds of escape would probably be somewhere between 60 & 80 percent.
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freebird1994



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:29 pm Reply with quote
Really? You do a bunch of burglaries and then you use the alias of a One Piece character and you don't choose nami who is LITERALLY A BURGLAR? and yes I know that would be too obvious but like, its about aesthetics.
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XerneasYveltal



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:03 pm Reply with quote
I found out about it in the news yesterday, which made me wonder if that Luffy person really did name themselves after the One Piece protagonist.
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otastorian



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:50 am Reply with quote
I was having a good chuckle at this story, but damn, someone died because of this? That's pretty fucked up.
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SenpaiDuckie
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 9:37 am Reply with quote
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NHK reported on Sunday that Japan and the Philippines will soon be in talks about the handover of four or five suspects, at least one of whom is believed to be "Luffy."


... The fact that this has gone internationally too. Dayum.
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Slips Python



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 12:29 pm Reply with quote
Luffy's not smart enough to pull off this kind of caper.
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