Japanese police officer shot in the butt with his own gun while battling porn vending machine bandits.
TAGAWA, Fukuoka -- A police officer is in a serious condition after being shot in the buttocks with his own pistol while scuffling with porno vending machine thieves here Friday, police said.
The 29-year-old sergeant from Tagawa Police Station is being treated for the wound to his buttocks.
Two men have been arrested for robbery resulting in injury in connection with the case.
Police said the sergeant was one of three policemen to rush to the scene after a security company informed them that somebody was tampering with a pornography vending machine in an isolated part of Tagawa just before 4:30 a.m. Friday.
The officers reached the vending machine to find two men trying to break into it.
A scuffle arose and one of the men took out the sergeant's gun, firing it and sending a bullet slamming into the police officer's bottom.
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A police sergeant was shot in the buttock at point-blank range by a man who grabbed his gun while resisting arrest on suspicion of stealing from a roadside vending machine in Tagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, early Friday, police said.
The sergeant arrived at the scene at about 4:40 a.m. with two other officers after a security company reported to Tagawa Police Station that a vending machine on a national highway selling DVDs and other items had been ransacked about 20 minutes earlier, according to the police.
The police tried to restrain two men they found in a car near the scene. One, Akira Uranaka, 29, of Kama in the prefecture and a member of the Taishu-kai crime syndicate, tried to escape, but was caught by an officer about 40 meters away. The other, unemployed Masamichi Oda, 21, of Tagawa, tried to break free when being held by the other two officers, grabbed the 29-year-old sergeant's gun from his holster and shot him.
He'll probably be the butt of many jokes.
This mistake doesn't neccessarily mean he's a bum.
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Seriously, what are kids doing these days setting off guns over censored porn in vending machines?Â
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