Police in Fukuoka have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of drunk driving while on an electric scooter.
According to police, a police officer on patrol saw a man on an electric scooter zigzagging on the road in front of Hakata Station in Hakata Ward at around midnight Thursday, Fuji Television reported.
When the police officer called out to the man driving the scooter to stop, he kept going for about 150 meters.
After he stopped, police gave the man a breathalyzer test and found that he was nearly three times over the legal limit for alcohol.
Police said the suspect, Yuya Okamura, a company employee from Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, has admitted to the charge and quoted him as saying, "I had two beers between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. There is no doubt that I was driving while drunk.”
© Japan Today
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Zaphod
Two beers in two hours and over the legal limit? Must have been some pretty big beers.
In the event, it is totally correct to treat these annoying contraptions as motor vehicles.
Alongfortheride
Are you aware how low the legal limit is in Japan? It is 0.03%. I am a large guy who drinks a lot of beer plus I also eat well when out drinking. I only need 3 x 300ml beers and I am over the limit in Japan whereas in the USA I can comfortably have 7 (and this is 5% alcohol beers). I have been tested at 2 beers in Japan and I was just on the line. A smaller guy that perhaps does not have any food could easily be over the limit at 2 beers. By comparison the USA is 0.08% & New Zealand and Australia 0.05%
dobre vam zajebava
simple rule here.
if drinking- dont drive.
if driving- dont drink
Newgirlintown
Why are these idiots allowed to ride around revving their engines at all hours and causing a nuisance to people?
sakurasuki
After law being changed, same thing apply for bicycle rider too in Japan starting from November this year.
3 years penalty or 500 thousands yen.
https://www.threads.net/@sougoudaikou/post/DBysUHEyh5s
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/11/a8e7a20d0449-japan-law-to-punish-cyclists-for-phone-use-riding-drunk-takes-effect.html
リッチ
If police staked out any of this riding stations after 7pm and did tests on every rider, thousands would be arrested each day in Tokyo. At night after 12 everyone should be stopped and checked automatically. People in tokyo ride them like a toy darting in and out of traffic.
sakurasuki
@リッチ
Not only that many people in big cities commute using train to their workplace, how do they got into station from their house, some by walk, some by bus and some others by bicycle.
After November many of them easily can be caught during bonenkai or any nomikai in Friday, after having drink and trying to get to their home from station by bicycle.
@Japan Glimpsed
Fukuoka Broadcasting quotes the man as saying he consumed several beers between 8-10.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3321486a47598949a1dd3d7dd2d7e79ec2c863a2
BertieWooster
Can you even rev the engine of an electric scooter? Does it make a noise?
aaronagstring
Zero Tolerance for drink drivers - of any kind. No ifs, buts or maybes. I lost a friend in 1989 due to a drunk driver. We were both 17.
NCIS Reruns
if drinking- dont drive.
if driving- dont drink
Or in Japanese, 飲むなら乗るな。乗るなら飲むな。(Nomu nara noru na. Noru nara nomu na.)