It Is One Thing To Have A Passion,

collecting things,

it is quiet another when you do not pay for what you collect, in this case bicycle seats, you might remember we made a post about one chap that had stolen 159 bicycle seats in October 2019, above photograph The Business Standard,

well Hiroaki Suda, a 57-year-old truck driver, went well past that total, he was arrested on Feb. 13 after surveillance cameras caught him stealing two bicycle seats worth about ¥8,000 ($75) on Nov. 29 and 30, 2019, at a train station and a parking lot for bicycles in Higashiosaka, Japan’s Osaka prefecture, Suda admitted to the charges, and for some reason confessed to police that he had started stealing bicycle seats about a quarter century before, and had since put together quite and impressive collection, and what a collection, He claims to have stolen over 5,800 seats over the lasts 25 years! “I began to steal bike seats about 25 years ago in Tokyo and Osaka to relieve stress at work and, gradually, collecting them turned out to be fun,” Suda was quoted as saying by police, the 57-year-old trucker led police to a storage facility that he had rented specifically for the over 5,800 bike seats he had stolen over the last two and a half decades. Aided by his job, which saw him traveling all over Japan, he has stolen bike seats from every area of the country, well at least it was a hobby that meant he was well travelled and fitted in with his job!