Yoshifumi Takabe was arrested near Kobe, Japan in suspicion of burning down his home on Sunday August 9. The 29 year old factory worker reportedly doused his room with kerosene and lit it up around 2:10 pm on Sunday. A shame really, since the house was 250 square meters (~2,700 square feet) and 2 stories high.

He also planned to commit suicide while staying in the burning house evidenced by the fact that the police found him doused with kerosene. And yet, he somehow escaped with no injuries. His 55 year old mother was also in the house while it was burning but fortunately escaped with no injuries as well.

The reason for doing all of this? His mother threw away his valuable Gundam models so he wanted to kill himself.

[Source:Anime News Network;Image:Plamo-Warrior DX]