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A WOMAN HAS been arrested in Japan on suspicion of destroying 54 violins and 70 bows worth around $950,000 (€814,000) that were owned by her ex-husband, police and media said today.
The 34-year-old was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaking into a man’s home and wrecking the instruments, with reports that the violins had been made or collected by her 62-year-old former partner.
The collection included an Italian-made instrument worth 50 million yen (€383,000), according to Jiji Press.
“The total financial damage claimed by the victim is 105.9 million yen (€814,062),” a police spokesman from the central prefecture of Aichi, where the crime allegedly took place, told AFP.
“She (the arrested woman) is suspected of entering the home by breaking a window sometime between 30 January and 19 February in 2014,” he said.
At the time of the incident, the couple were reportedly in the middle of a divorce, which was completed last year.
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Hazel Chu says that they’d be great for the homeless as they can’t blag their way into a pub or the likes. Someone inform her why *exactly* the Dublin public toilets were originally closed.
@Daniel Dunne: we are talking about people who want to use the bathroom. Homeless people need to do it just the same as people with homes. And not all homeless people are using drugs in bathrooms and plenty of the people that did had homes. They closed because the council didn’t want to deal with the. Ireland is hardly unique in having people who use drugs or people who need to use the bathroom. We are unique in failing to deal with it.
Who would insure a Public Toilet in Ireland given the madness of our legal liability regime
Pubs resturants should make their toilets freely available to the public. For instance a customer is not likely to wait an hour in the pub after his/her last drink to avail of the pubs free toilet.
We need a business community approach as well as Council contribution to free , safe & clean toilets for all.
In Australia we have both public & business toilets freely available.
No wonder there’s a toilet smell in Dublin’s back lanes!
A country that purports to be first world should have at least clean/safe public toilets.
@Moorooka Mick: no they absolutely should and can not… Anyone, let alone a business, that would open their toilets to the public in Dublin City would be ruined as a result. Aside from the general mess and abuse by the general public, Dublin has a huge drug problem and homelessness is out of control… Desperate people would use a toilet for other reasons, it’s just not at all sensible up suggest anyone could do it and maintain a business.
Dublin City Council should open them, staff them and charge 10c or something… They’d need 24/7 security but we pay enough tax to cover the costs.
@HairyTeeth: Ah… another “We pay enough tax to cover the cost”. We are obviously not paying enough tax.
@HairyTeeth: like we do for water?
@HairyTeeth: agree 100%
What are the sky high council rates being spent on? How difficult is it to providing public toilets it’s not an impossible dream
How many employees do the council have? They couldn’t use existing resources to install and maintain glorified ports cabins around the city? I’d get the project done for less than 50k.
@Sean Fahey: I’d say you would alright
@Sean Fahey: this story is about more revenue for DCC in the form of highly visual advertising. The automatic toilets have multiple sides therefore multiple points to advertise on.
600 grand a year?
They’re taking the piss!
@John Mulligan: More like turd party rather than “Third Party”
Ten years talking shtie
Don’t forget to be inclusive and provide toilets for all communities especially those of the a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y and z persuasion
@FartyTowels: On an article today about Trans people titled ” The most important thing is to talk about it” the comments are closed. It really is bizarre.
These toilets already exist here wexford pop in your 50c door opens close behind you do your business when you exit the toilet is cleaned then daily the company maintains the toilet stocking up with chemicals etc. Mostly supplied and maintained by JC decaux. I think this story is really about more on street advertising as the toilets are highly visible points of advertisement.
@Tom Harpur Photography: Long ago the automatic type came and went on the big smoke. Then we have the long forgotten original public toilets. O’Connell St = Contains the control systems for the Spire. Trinity = Filled in when the Luas was extended. St Stephens Green = Rest room for Luas drivers. Ranelagh = Filled in when road widened. Etc etc. Don’t forget all the other parks public toilets, which had to be closed…
Berlin has well run public toilets they are spotless and very well run, 50cent per use and the shocker is that they have like every major city a lot of homeless people, blaming drug addicts and homeless for not having proper services for the public is a lame excuse and local authorities just do not want to spend money on this, plenty of cctv and a crackdown in fraudulent insurance claims should sort out any perception that we can’t have nice amenities
3rd party? Who’s the 2nd party? Do they mean the public? So they’re not actually asking the public to provide their own
Cost you more to tap than 50c lol!
The Romans didn’t invade Ireland/Hibernia. That’s why we have so many crooked boreens, and Dublin City Council is only mildly interested in public hygiene. The Vikings invaded a place called Dubh Linn. That’s why the streets are scruffy and the Liffey often smells like a cesspool. Dublin councillors should blame the Roman failure to invade us for the lack of public bath houses and conveniences.
How do you know where the back of a tree is ? Easy
Why does everything cost a fortune when the word ‘Council’ is mentioned
Pathetic reticence
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