A 26-year-old man with his head literally in the gutter was arrested on June 6 in Higashi Nada, Hyōgo Prefecture for meiwaku, or being a public nuisance.

The suspect allegedly crawled into a roadside gutter, measuring fifty centimeters deep and thirty centimeters wide, with the intent of peeping up through the holes in a grate to catch glimpses up women's skirts as they passed over.

At 10:10 in the morning, a woman sensing that someone was in the gutter informed a security guard.

The man later admitted his guilt to police, confessing that he had been hiding in the gutter since 8 in the morning.

And the Japanese wonder why their population is decreasing. Let me tell you, if these guys put as much effort into getting laid as they do in trying to sneak a peak at girls' panties, the population would be two hundred million and rising.

In a related story, a man was arrested a few days ago for attempting to take a photo up the skirt of a junior high school girl while she was shopping at a Tsutaya DVD/CD rental shop. The man was arrested on the spot by the girl's father, who happened to be an off-duty policeman. (Oops!)