Some people have strange obsessions that they tend to hide from the world. A Japanese man fascinated with raincoats was finally caught by police after he raided multiple women of their raincoats over a period of 13 years.
Dubbed “Raincoat Man,” Yoshido Yoda was arrested in Osaka, Japan, after stealing 360 raincoats over the last decade. Authorities have been trying to identify the 51-year-old for the last 13 years with no luck until now.
Yoda worked as a newspaper delivery man and was apparently obsessed with a garment known as “kappa,” a plastic or vinyl poncho worn over one’s clothes to protect them from rain. Upon searching his home, hundreds of raincoats were uncovered, with the oldest ones stolen back in 2009.
How Yoda would locate kappas is he would often follow women who he saw riding bicycles, made sure to check parked bicycles painted in feminine colors and just search for unattended kappas. If he found one, he would grab it to add to his own collection. Apparently, Yoda viewed women in raincoats the same way as most see women in lingerie.
Investigators believe that at least 320 of the garments found in Yoda’s possession were stolen in the last nine years. It was the authorities that gave him the nickname “Raincoat Man” as they tried to hunt him down. Police estimate that he caused around $7,800 in damages over his 13-year-long criminal career.
Source: https://www.sankei.com/article/20220922-PPLKB3FBM5KK3BJTSVF2ZMNUVI/