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Father, son arrested for assaulting police officer at Sapporo game center

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Police in Sapporo, Hokkaido, have arrested a 48-year-old man and his 27-year-old son on suspicion of causing a public disturbance and obstructing police in the performance of their duties at a game center.

According to police, the trouble started at around 10:35 p.m. on Friday, NTV reported. Police said the father and son were both drunk. They had come to the game center at a commercial facility with acquaintances. 

Witnesses said the father and son were acting violently, and an employee called 110. When police arrived, the father assaulted a police officer by kicking his leg, while the man’s son shoved the officer in the chest.

When questioned by police, the father was quoted as saying "I don't remember," while his son said, “Look at the security camera footage and you can see what happened.”

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A 48 year old and his 27 year old son, drunk - in a game centre.

Yep. Life must be right on track for both!

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Upstanding family there.

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Those father-son moments are so special

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So did they look at the security cameras? It seems a reasonable suggestion by the suspect.

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What duties did they obstruct? Sleeping on the job? Slurping noodles and saying "ahhh" laxly at the koban? They were the police duty! The police were called to sort them out. There was no obstruction whatsoever. This is so absurd. Had police been giving some random bloke a parking ticket and they had acted violently towards the copper, now that would be obstruction. The question begging to be asked here is, however, have otaku become so out of touch that they can't even game properly in a game center? We now have the most harmless least violent and dangerous strand of human acting like caged animals. Oh how Japan has sunken socially...

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Genius, those two.

Not.

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What duties did they obstruct?

Probably the duty of the police to try and remove them from the centre.

The question begging to be asked here is, however, have otaku become so out of touch that they can't even game properly in a game center?

Something tells me you don't know what type of place a game centre is anymore. They are usually full of photo booths and prize games and often full of young girls or couples on a date.

As you could imagine ( or maybe you can't) drunken men 'acting violently' would warrant a call to the police.

The type of 'otaku' you are probably thinking of wouldn't go there because there would be few video games.

Do people not understand these articles after reading them?

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 the father was quoted as saying "I don't remember," while his son said, “Look at the security camera footage and you can see what happened.”

ahhh, the precious moment when the son becomes wiser than the father.

lock them both up

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Video footage needed. When people are drunk crap happens. Japan has embraced the get as drunk as possible culture so suck it up. Kicked his leg (lord lol) shoved his chest (wow) such crimes. Lol

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What caused the issue in the first place? Was the shop scamming them as I find most of those Game Center’s are frankly scamming most people with nearly impossible ways to win.

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If they were drunk, may be the gaming place should have turned them away in the first place.

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Would be interesting to know how much time in jail they'd face for this. Or maybe they get a suspended sentence.

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Important detail not included above: the father and son were quarreling violently with each other.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/35737fbbbe2aa6012564febe590d99eaff4958d3

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This is the place: Dinos Sapporo Teine

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7wFS5zqPpfBzk9qK8

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Japan has embraced the get as drunk as possible culture so suck it up

The men were not arrested for being drunk.

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So did they look at the security cameras? It seems a reasonable suggestion by the suspect.

No doubt police are doing that very obvious thing. Meanwhile, multiple witnesses, including staff, have described the mens' behavior as violent. Besides, the men were arrested not for arguing or being drunk but for preventing the police from performing their duty; one simply doesn't kick or shove the police.

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Marc Lowe Today  09:41 am JST

The police were called to sort them out. There was no obstruction whatsoever. 

The police were called to sort them out, and the father & son attempted to obstruct the police officer by kicking and pushing him.

Hence the obstruction charge.

If that vocabulary isn't to your liking, fine. Let's call it something else -- assaulting a police officer. Which to me actually sounds worse than obstruction.

Stop defending those two overage derelicts.

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owzer Today  08:59 am JST

So did they look at the security cameras?

No, of course not.

The Japanese police really ought to read the Japan Today comments sections and learn how to do their job from this forum's plethora of law-enforcement experts.

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Readers, please refrain from bickering.

@Japan GlimpsedToday  04:57 pm JST

Important detail not included above: the father and son were quarreling violently with each other.

That's not really all that important.

What's important is that they were drunk in public, and then proceeded to assault a police officer who responded to a call about them.

Whether they were arguing with each other or not is no excuse.

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In the very informative link kindly provided by JT poster '@Japan Glimpsed', there is a review of the game centre in the Google Maps section, posted by ゆうこ (Yuuko):

"Anyway, the overall quality of the people is low, and the customer base is too bad. It seems to be a hangout for people who are considered Otaku or have some type of developmental disability."

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