The sumo and an accomplice were arrested in a BMW with tinted windows and the cash machine inside. Interestingly, the accomplice immediately claimed full responsibility and said that he had misled the sumo. How do you mislead someone about ripping a cash machine out of a wall? “Really, that is my cash machine but a guy put it here” or “that machine said it could kick you ass in a Honbasho.”
It is not clear if he did the ritualistic Shiko of stamping of feet on the ground before taking on the machine.
The traffic stop avoided the need for police to stake out Big and Tall Men shops around Moscow for a sumo with a lot of cash.
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