A teacher at a school for the blind in Japan has been
arrested for allegedly stealing a woman's underpants from a
laundromat while dressed in a miniskirt and wearing a blonde wig,
police said Wednesday.
Police later confiscated some 150 female garments, including
more underwear and knee-high boots, from the home of Tsuyoshi
Hirano, 43, a teacher at a prefectural school for the visually
impaired, the Nikkan Sports daily reported.
The victim, a 22-year-old woman, realised her underpants were
missing from a drying tumbler in a coin laundromat in Fukuoka,
western Japan.
When she saw Hirano get into a car parked outside, she reported
the licence plate number to police, Kyodo News reported.
"At first glance, I knew 'she' was a 'he,'" she reportedly told
police.
The man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of theft, Fukuoka
police said.