“Uncle Nipples” being held in connection with recent nipple rubbing incident

Former internet meme returns to the spotlight and appears as fond of his own areolae as ever.

Uncle Nipples, or Chikubi Ojisan, was a circa 2013 internet celebrity for all the wrong reasons. On various trains throughout the Kansai region, this middle-aged man sporting glasses, a mullet, a stoic expression, a sheer undershirt, and top with easy access to the chest, was frequently spotted going to town on his own two teats while staring at women sitting across from him.

▼ A musical montage of Uncle Nipples sightings

It’s an unfortunate habit to have when general disgust with male nipples in Japan is at an all-time high – and by that I mean it is high all the time. But for the most part he seemed harmless, if not extremely unsettling and repulsive.

However, in 2016, Uncle Nipples decided to take things a step too far. After one nipple-rubbing session aboard a Kintetsu Kyoto Line train, Uncle Nipples stood up in front of his victim and pulled his genitals out of his pants. That was enough for the authorities to finally take action and arrest him.

He initially told police he was a clerk at a supermarket, but it was quickly discovered that he had worked for the Ritto Municipal Government in Shiga Prefecture. Uncle Nipples admitted to the charges saying that he was dealing with “sexual desire and stress.” He was fined an undisclosed amount for the incident.

For the next few years, things were rather quiet on the Uncle Nipples front. However, on 18 February of this year two women aboard the Kyoto Line between Yamadagawa and Takanohara Stations came face-to-face with a man rubbing his nipples.

Suddenly the man got up and began moving closer to the pair. Considering the past arrest, the women wisely got off the train as soon as possible and alerted the police. By the time they made their report, the train was long gone, taking the suspect away with it.

Nevertheless, a subsequent investigation led police to the doorstep of Uncle Nipples on 4 July where they arrested him for lewd behavior. Readers of the news were understandably not shocked by it.

“Welcome back Uncle Nipples.”
“He’s at it again.”
“That’s a habit I can’t even begin to understand.”
“He’s probably just going to do it again and again…”
“The guy clearly needs some treatment, not arrests and fines.”
“If he hadn’t crossed the line by pulling out his junk, he probably could have had a career as a TV comic with that habit.”

Given the uniqueness of the act and the location it occurred, this certainly does appear to be the handiwork of Uncle Nipples. However, one detail is as conspicuous as a man’s nipple in a cheap dress shirt: The reports have said that this latest incident involved the man exposing his chest, and then playing with his nipples.

This goes against Uncle Nipples’ traditional M.O. of fondling himself beneath a thin white undershirt, and suggests the possibility of a copycat in play. If so, the authorities may have to enlist the help of Uncle Nipples a la Hannibal Lector to reach the mind of a serial chest-fondler and, finally, the silence of the man-mams.

Source: Sankei News West, Hachima Kiko (1, 2)
Top image: YouTube/kt7000

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