Ex-comedian designs bicycle basket cover to fend off purse snatchers

Ex-comedian designs bicycle basket cover to fend off purse snatchers

OSAKA, Japan - Artist and former comedian Jimmy Onishi (L) poses with Yao Mayor Seita Tanaka in promoting a bicycle basket cover that Onishi designed to thwart purse snatchers, at the Yao city hall in Osaka Prefecture on Oct. 7, 2014.

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