Title - Female railway attendant judo flips violent Japanese commuter

We always expect to see it in a movie or a comedy show – an unsuspecting obnoxious man mistreating an employee learned in the ways of martial arts who then is left with no choice but to unleash a sublime takedown to humiliate the said troublemaker. But this is where art copies real life, where a Keikyu Line railway employee in Yokohama handed out a sublime judo move to a troublemaking passenger earlier this week. The passenger allegedly punched the female railway employee at Yokohama Station, and so the employee flipped him over with a perfectly executed judo throw, this reported by the Kanagawa Prefectural Police.The violent commuter was Hiroshi Ebina, 34, an unemployed Yokohama man, who reportedly hit the 21-year-old female railway employee in the face multiple times. The incident happened around 11 p.m. on Monday when the train attendant tried to stop Ebina at the ticket gate as he tried to transfer from an East Japan Railway train to the Keikyu Line without paying the full fare from Nakano to Yokohama. Unfortunately for the unsuspecting Ebina, the train attendant has a black belt in judo, and purposefully flipped him over her shoulders and pinned him as other staff rushed on to the scene to help her. The female train attendant said later that she had learned the judo flip move in high school.

Ebina was arrested on the spot, but denied punching the attendant. “I only knocked off her cap,” he said. The police had investigated the incident and found out that Ebina boarded the JR Sobu Line at Higashi-Nakano Station in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, with a ¥160 (approx. $1.60) ticket. He knew his fare was short but he still attempted to switch to the Keikyu Line at Yokohama Station where the judo flipping happened. Aside from the obvious lesson of not underestimating anyone just because he or she works as a train station attendant, we think that the better summation of this story would be for people to get a job so that they can afford train fares. As Ebina was unemployed, he felt he could get away with not paying the full fare, and he got a real smackdown for his troubles. So we say – go get a job.