at all in any sport,
but I can imagine that it must be frustrating having to pay for a seat not to be able to see the game, or be overcrowded by fellow sports fans, photograph wgbieber/Pixabay, which was obviously what 41-year-old
Kiyoshi Shibamura, a fan of the Orix Buffaloes baseball club from the Japanese
city of Osaka, had in mind when he came up with an ingenious-yet-costly plan to
watch his favorite team compete against the SoftBank Hawks at Osaka’s Kyocera
Dome on the 28th and 29th of September, last year,
to make sure he stood out on TV and enjoyed some serious
privacy, he went through the trouble of creating 1,873 fake names and reserving
the same number of stadium seats online. He then cancelled all but his own
reservation right before the end of the reservation period, making sure that no
one else managed to snatch the seats, having 1,873 empty seats at a home game
was not particularly unusual for the Orix Buffaloes, a low-ranked team with
probably the smallest fanbase in the Japanese baseball league, but this was no
ordinary game. This was one of the last games of the season and the SoftBank
hawks would go on to win last year’s national title, so the stakes were pretty
high, and so were ticket prices, as pointed out above in this still from the video,
the
1,873 sudden seat cancellations caused the Orix Buffaloes reported losses of
about 10.86 million yen ($105,000), a sizeable sum for such a small club, so an
internal investigation into this matter was launched, with evidence of his
involvement, the man didn’t even bother denying it, “I wanted to watch the game
comfortably with no people around,” Shibamura told police. “I wanted to stand
out [on TV].” It’s unclear whether Shibamura is facing only a fine or actual
jail time, but he probably won’t try doing anything like this ever again, story from articles in Sankei
News, and Hachima
Kiko, I wonder if the club banned him?
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