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A retired Japanese crime boss has been arrested in Thailand , ending more than 14 years on the run, after photos of his yakuza tattoos and a missing little finger went viral. Shigeharu Shirai, 72, was apprehended while he was shopping on Wednesday in the central market town of Lopburi. Japanese authorities had sought his arrest over an alleged role in the shooting of a rival in , after which he fled to Thailand, married a local woman and drifted into a seemingly peaceful retirement. That was until a resident posted photos of the diminutive retiree playing a streetside checkers game with his intricate gang tattoos on full show and a missing little finger — yakuza members often slice off a fingertip to atone for an offence.

A jiangshi , also known as a Chinese "hopping" zombie or vampire [1] , is a type of reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore. It is typically depicted as a stiff corpse dressed in official garments from the Qing Dynasty , and it moves around by hopping, with its arms outstretched. It kills living creatures to absorb their qi , or "life force", usually at night, while during the day, it rests in a coffin or hides in dark places such as caves. Some causes are described below:. Generally, a Jiangshi's appearance can range from unremarkable as in the case of a recently deceased person to horrifying rotting flesh, rigor mortis , as with corpses that have been in a state of decay over a period. It is believed that the jiangshi is so stiff that it cannot bend its limbs and body, so it has to move around by hopping while keeping its arms stretched out for mobility. Jiangshi are depicted in popular culture to have a paper talisman with a sealing spell attached onto and hanging off the forehead in portrait orientation, and wear a uniform coat-like robe and round-top tall rimmed hat characteristic of a mandarin Chinese official from during the Qing dynasty.

The two videos of violent assaults were filmed and shared on social media by the offenders themselves in an increasingly brazen trend. In one attack, believed to have been filmed last week in the Roman Road area of Tower Hamlets, the youths surround a boy and crowd him against a garage. Why you drinking in my area for? The same gang filmed themselves carrying out another violent mugging along a residential street in nearby Newham, again in broad daylight. At least six boys wearing hoodies and scarves then drag their victim off his bike and push him to the ground, punching him the face, beating him with a belt and repeatedly kicking him from all sides before fleeing with his bag.

Organized crime is a category of transnational , national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist groups , are politically motivated. Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, such as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for " protection ".