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NAGOYA -- A housewife lied to police that she had been slashed by a knife-wielding woman on a bicycle to "draw the attention of her partner" away from computer games, police said Tuesday.

The wife's report to police that she had been knifed in Nagoya's Meito-ku late Monday night made headlines following two similar incidents recently where local residents were stabbed by a woman riding a bicycle.

The housewife, 33, whose name is being withheld, apparently cashed in on the media attention to the serial stabbings by fictitiously calling the police.

"My live-in partner has been totally absorbed in playing computer games, so I thought that he would turn his attention to me if I was in trouble," she was quoted as telling officers of the Meito Police Station.

She first contacted police shortly after 11 p.m., saying that she had been slashed with a knife near her home.

She called them again some five hours later and confessed. "The previous report I made was a lie," she told an officer on the telephone. The police plan to send her case to prosecutors on charges of fictitious reporting. (Mainichi Shimbun, April 8, 2003)

This just goes to show you, when you live with the one you love, remember to pay some attention to them in between videogame session, maybe during a loading screen...

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030...dm015000c.html