<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese woman and her six-month-old baby escaped unhurt from a knife-wielding thief this week after the mother calmed him down with a cup of tea and a chat. (Advertisement) The 30-year-old Tokyo woman was walking along a corridor in her apartment building with her daughter on Monday when a man brandishing a knife demanded money, the Asahi newspaper said. When the housewife told him she had none, the man barged into her apartment. Hoping to calm him, the woman made the thief a cup of tea, whereupon he put his knife away and began a 20-minute monologue about his life. The woman then gave the man 10,000 yen (47 pounds) and ran outside to call the police from a pay phone, the report said. Police rushed to the scene, but the thief had fled and is still being sought.</div> Source
Hahahaha that's awesome. I'd love to get held up like that, and then have the guy tell me his life story. Wait, wouldn't that make it easier to catch him? That guy's not all that smart.
