Drunk Man Dies under Bookstore Shutter

A Tokyo man died late into the night Saturday when a bookstore worker accidentally closed the storefront iron shutter on him. 51-year old Hideo Hiruma was found trapped between the shutter and the ground around 2am. I think he may have fallen asleep drunk under the store awning, and the storekeeper just closed the thing without looking, never suspecting that a human might be immediate underneath. A fair assumption under normal circumstances, I'd think. But people fall asleep in random places all the time late at night in Tokyo. The trains stop running anywhere between midnight and 1:30am, even on Saturdays, so people who get drunk, live far, don't have enough cash, and finish drinking at a half-assed hour have to somehow kill time until the first train starts up the next morning. I once called the cops from my cell phone at 2am because a guy was sleeping (passed out drunk) at a parking lot entrance in Meguro. Sooo dangerous.

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