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TOKYO (AP) � A Japanese man who skipped out on his cab fares after crisscrossing the country in a taxi won't be going anywhere soon.

Koichi Machida, 37, was sentenced to a year and eight months in prison, a court official said.

Machida had a tab of $4,391.67 for three separate rides clocking a total of 1,240 miles, Aomori District Court spokesman Tsutomu Maekawa said.

Over the summer, Machida rode 620 miles from Inabe to Sendai, about 19 miles from Nagoya to Inabe, and about 601 miles from Toyohashi in central Japan to the northeastern city of Aomori, the spokesman said.

Machida told one driver a family member was in critical condition, the spokesman said.

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And the definition of chutzpah is.....