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Sacto0562
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Just great. We ended up with something right out of Kousuke Fujishima's Taiho Shichauzo (You're Under Arrest) manga/anime series....
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firedragon54738
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Well if your going to steal manga just take one a week for years not 98 at once
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LupinTheFourth
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Footage of the chase has been uncovered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMagP52BWG8 |
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Sunday Silence
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You just described Hot Fuzz. |
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AFatHouseCat
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I'm curious to know if there was a weapon used in the holdup. If there was, that's your reason for the over the top reaction. Even possessing an illegal weapon in Japan is a big offense, let alone brandishing one in a robbery.
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zr2008
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Doesn't it cost several thousand dollars an hour to keep a chopper in the air? Put the manga down and put your hands in the air. *points a gun at the manga* step back coppers or the manga gets it
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Zin5ki
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One might propose that their defence… fell flat. |
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dizzon
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If they didn't try to flee in a car at high speeds ignoring traffic signals and endangering lives I'm thinking the helicopter would not have been dispatched. Also, I can't speak for Japanese police helicopter protocol but state side most cities have at least one po po copter in the air already as part of a regular patrol to be scrambled if/when needed. So, I highly doubt the chopper went airborne specifically for manga theft. I'm just sayin'
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cche7
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Probably sitting in their jail cell, wondering if it was it really worth it to steal manga?!?
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isoge
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So.... in order to save $700 worth of goods, they risked the lives of people (had there been a traffic incident) chasing after the thieves with that huge police force? Anyone knows the cost for the police force?
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dizzon
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My guess would be the normal days operating budget. So many on-duty officers were already present and called to a concentrated area for assistance. It's not a misuse of money, it's a misuse of already allocated resources. |
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SereneChaos
 Posts: 384 Location: Middle of Nowhere, USA |
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Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought that a police chief with a sense of humor sent 20 cop cars and a Chopper cosplayer to mess with someone who was stealing some One Piece manga.
I don't know about Japan, but in the US at least, a helicopter/its pilots need to log so many hours a week or something to keep their license current, so they frequently just fly around just to fly. If they're already up there, why not put it to good use? |
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Surrender Artist
 Posts: 3264 Location: Pennsylvania, USA |
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The helicopter might well have already been in the air and so why not deploy it, but I'm less sure that the twenty police cars can be justified. They might not have had much to do, but I can't resist wondering if their actions cost more and exacerbated the danger of the situation more than could possibly have been justified.
I wonder if the police knew of the sheer pettiness of the crime when they committed so many resources to it. Maybe such situations are so novel that the police got too excited and overreacted as a way to get to do cool shit that they normally only see in American films. Otherwise it's like the Japanese are trying to develop their own equivalent to our ludicrous, destructive 'war on drugs', except with manga theft,
I wonder if the thieves hate Miyagi Nazis.
Hey, didn't your show get cancelled? |
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enurtsol
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They're on a mission.......... from Megami-sama! Police usually cut off from high-speed chases when it may endanger the public or if the stolen loot doesn't necessarily need to be recovered ASAP, preferring instead to arrest the perps later (e.g. using the car license plate or surveillance to ID the suspects). |
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jmaeshawn
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When I read the title, I though they sent Chopper from One Piece out after them... lol
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