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2,240 police, 460 patrol cars, copter mobilized for car chase in Osaka
Japan Today ^
| 01/25/08
Posted on 01/28/2008 9:01:01 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
2,240 police, 460 patrol cars, copter mobilized for car chase in Osaka
Friday, January 25, 2008 at 03:01 EST
OSAKA — Police on Thursday arrested a wanted man after a two-hour car chase that involved 2,240 officers, 460 police cars and one helicopter. Hirofumi Fukuda, 27, who had been wanted for assaulting police officers on Jan 21, was arrested after a chase through central Osaka. Around 11 a.m., police received an emergency call saying that a car was driving recklessly, ignoring traffic lights. When a patrol car approached the vehicle in question, it took off.
Police were mobilized throughout the area and a helicopter called in. The chase ended when Fukuda's car crashed into a bridge column. He sustained light injuries but no one else was injured in the chase.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carchase; japan; keystonecops
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:01:28 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
just because they called a mobilization doesn’t mean all those cops were following this guy. could you imagine a 461 car chase? it’d look like the pride parade through downtown san fransisco.
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:03:25 PM PST
by
thefactor
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:05:50 PM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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I wonder how much this cost the citizens of that city.
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:08:01 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(This is my BOOMSTICK)
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:09:02 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(This is my BOOMSTICK)
To: wastedyears
Don’t worry. It’s part of the economic stimulus package by Japanese government.:-)
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:12:15 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Was that every cop in the city?
Here in L.A. I often wonder if these fools running from the police are doing it in order to enable accomplices to commit more serious crimes unimpeded.
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:14:09 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: TigerLikesRooster
Police on Thursday arrested a wanted man after a two-hour car chase that involved 2,240 officers, 460 police cars and one helicopterCannonbahr Run?
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:18:50 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Benedict Arnold was against the Terrorist Surveillance Program)
To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
I heard it all started when a cop asked him what his last name was.
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:20:12 PM PST
by
geopyg
(Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I guess this would be called over-kamikaze, right?
Leni
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:22:22 PM PST
by
MinuteGal
(Keep Dr. McStrangelove from winning the Academy Award for Best Malefactor......Support Mitt !)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The perp's car was caught by a security camera:
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:27:40 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(Don't mess with tigers, for you are crunchy and chewy...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:28:27 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(This is my BOOMSTICK)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Why not throw in a couple hundred “guard men” for good measure?
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posted on
01/28/2008 9:55:41 PM PST
by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: thefactor
just because they called a mobilization doesn’t mean all those cops were following this guy. could you imagine a 461 car chase?No sh*t. You couldn't do anything like that in an American city, let alone in the confines of a Japanese city. Talk about a sensationalizing headline.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo
" Bakayaro, hawrt, inna namu adu Raw!"
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posted on
01/28/2008 10:32:55 PM PST
by
Candor7
(Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Exactly where did the chase start, continue and then end.? For example, Umeda down Midosuji to Namba and then east to Tsurahashi and ended in Yao.
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