Dangerous encounter

Two friends and I found ourselves in front of Okayama station last week where a bunch of cars were being driven recklessly. We were on the verge of calling it a night when one friend saw a handbag lying next to a flower pot.

I picked it up and started to look for ID so I could hand it over to the police. Just then, three teeny boppers -- around 16-years-old -- approached us and demanded their bag back. I explained we had found it on the street and handed it to them. They ran off.

A few minutes later, my friend noticed a cell phone lying in the flower pot. As we picked it up, the teeny boppers approached us again, this time more beligerently and talking rudely. The leader of the pack was acting obnoxiously and claiming we had taken the phone from the bag that we had found earlier.