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Woman arrested in Japan for sewing shut housemate's lips (www.rte.ie)

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The 42-year-old female victim escaped the house in the city of Koga, rushed to a nearby shop and held up a piece of paper that read "please help me", Makoto Hiyama, a senior local police official, said.

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[-] Carighan@piefed.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, who among us hasn't thought about this? 🤷

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Duct tape or a gag maybe. Sewing them shut is psycho behavior tho.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

He said thought

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

We have all evaluated the options. Most of us decided that sewing was in fact too extreme.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

If you didn't decide that taping their mouth shut wasn't too extreme too, there's a problem

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