This past weekend, a 29-year old man named Yoshifumi Takabe burned down the large two-story house in Kobe that he shared with his mom. It was a suspected suicide & murder attempt based on the fact that his mother had thrown away his collection of Gundam figurines. At least that's what he told police when he was arrested on Sunday.
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August 12, 2009
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Soo sad... I kinda grew out of my gundam collection. That was a not so painful transition of going further into life.
Posted by: Dragonfang18 | August 12, 2009 at 09:32 AM