Kobe Newspaper reported that a 29 year old man was arrested for setting his own house on fire. A whole two-story house was burnt down.
The man deposed that he attempted a suicide because his 55 year old mother threw away his plastic models of Gundam. He dashed heating oil over himself but escaped from the burning house unhurt.
Source: Kobe Shinbun
IT Media reported that his mother didn’t throw away the models, but she put them in trash bags without his permission. He saw all the models disappeared from the room and jumped to the wrong conclusion. In the end, he burnt his collections by himself. Police estimated that he had collected almost all the models and the goods of Gundam available.
Source: IT Media
