From our experience there are two types of grooms: the ones who are nervous and the ones who are willing to burn a hotel down. This Japanese dude falls in the latter category. Yahoo reports:

“A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get married at the weekend, rather than go through with the ceremony later the same day, newspaper reports said Monday.

“Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said.

“‘I thought if I set a fire I wouldn’t have to go through with the wedding,’ the Yomiuri quoted him as telling police.”

While we respect the shit out of this guy’s kamikaze style, we do have a few questions. Did he just view this engagement as a giant game of chicken with his mistress? Did he consider any other options outside of burning the hotel down when he realized she wasn’t going to flinch? Had he just recently watched Enemy of the State and realized a controlled fire was his only option?

Bigamy, arson, ludicrous scheming. We defy someone to find a Japenese dude more reckless than Tatsuhiko Kawata. The Japanese guys we’ve met wouldn’t leave the house in a wrinkled shirt. Then again, the prospect of thirty to forty years of waking up to the same woman every single day will drive someone to burn down buildings, especially when that prospect involves two women.

[Source: Yahoo]

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