Fetishist arrested for cutting skirt of junior high schoolgirl on train

If you spot a man with scissors on a train, he may not be dangerous but he may be seeking out an unusual method for satisfying his fetish.

Especially if he is Masamitsu Ando.

Chiba police arrested Ando last Thursday for cutting the skirt of a junior high school student the previous day.

The schoolgirl was on a JR train very early in the morning from from Tateyama to Chiba when the 41-year-old company employee used scissors to cut her skirt when she was sleeping in the seat next to him.

Young girls should know better than to dozen on trains in Japan, given the danger of being groped, but it was apparently 6 a.m., so we can forgive the third grader. She won’t be doing it again, though.

We all like short skirts and schoolgirls’ skirts. But just snippets of material from the skirt? Now that’s a new one.

No, it seems that Ando — who apparently work(ed) in a supermarket — didn’t want the 14-year-old schoolgirl’s skirt per se so much as a better view of what was underneath. “I wanted to see her underwear,” Ando admitted to the cops.

Now that’s totally fair enough as far as fetishes go.