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[quote name="Last"]<a href="http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200704180347.html">Yakuza Shiroo murders Nagasaki Mayor after city does not pay extortion fees.</a> [quote name="Asahi Shimbun"]Police quoted Shiroo, who has admitted he intended to kill Itoh, as saying, "I thought I would kill myself after shooting the mayor." He also told investigators he held a personal grudge against the city government over a February 2003 accident in which his car fell into a pothole near city-ordered construction work of a sidewalk. Shiroo said he was dissatisfied with the city's handling of the matter because officials did not respond to his requests to negotiate compensation for his damaged vehicle, according to police.[/quote] I suppose, on the basis that it is ridiculous to murder-suicide someone over money, that Shiroo's Yakuza boss ("... a.k.a. OYABUN", shouts Japanophile nerd) must have ordered him to sacrifice himself in order to pressure city politicians into paying future extortions? Point being, crime stories are interesting so long as they are far away.[/quote]