Our Unskilled Driver Cops a Penalty

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00:00Hey guys, another video for our Crime and Emergency Services in Japan playlist.

00:05So I'll start with a confession.

00:07The confession is I broke a law and I was penalised for it.

00:13So it was 100% my mistake, I did the wrong thing and now I've got to pay the penalty.

00:18So now I'll tell you the story.

00:20The car you can see just to our right there is where my car was.

00:24So all the cars approaching this intersection have a stop sign, all of them.

00:29So you all have to stop and then you've got to work out who to give way to, right?

00:33And in my case, where I was parked next to where that car on the right there is, I had

00:39to turn right.

00:40So I had to sit here and wait until the cars that were coming from the left had all gone

00:43through and the ones that were coming from ahead of me had gone through and then I could

00:47turn, go ahead and go to the right.

00:49But all these roads keep feeding.

00:52So all these cars keep coming and keep coming and keep coming.

00:55So I'd done the right thing and I'd stopped at that stop sign and then I turned right

01:00to go across where that crossing is, across the rail line there where that red car's going.

01:06And like the red car and the car behind him and the next car, I didn't quite stop 100%.

01:14I slowed down and then I went through, same as everybody else is doing, right?

01:18So, except that guy.

01:20As I got to the other side of the intersection, I could see off further down the road was

01:25a police car sitting there and he'd been sitting there watching.

01:28And I turned off that road to go to my friend's house and looked in the rear vision mirror

01:34and sure enough, there's the police car behind me with his lights flashing.

01:37They drive around with their lights flashing all the time, so that didn't mean anything.

01:40So I stopped at my friend's house and he pulled up behind me and came over and said, you didn't

01:46stop at the crossing, at the rail crossing.

01:49And I said, no, I stopped at the stop sign and made sure there was no cars coming in

01:54any direction.

01:55And then I turned right and went across the crossing.

01:59And he said, yes.

02:00And then he said in English, perfect stop, he said, perfect to stop, but, and then he

02:06said in Japanese, but you didn't stop at the rail crossing, which is fair enough, I didn't.

02:11So they wrote me a ticket.

02:13So just a little bit frustrating, I was pretty annoyed because, you know, we show you videos

02:18every week of all the dangerous stuff that we see every week, you know, the truck drivers

02:22doing dangerous stuff and bolsozoku doing dangerous stuff and lots of people doing

02:26dangerous stuff.

02:27They're all staring at their phones.

02:29And these guys were sitting there giving tickets.

02:32I wasn't, I wasn't targeted.

02:33I mean, you can see most of the cars, 90% of the cars aren't stopping either.

02:38So those guys would have just stopped there and just grabbed the first person they saw,

02:41which happened to be me.

02:43So I wasn't targeted because I'm a foreigner or anything like that.

02:46I was just happened to be the first one that came along after they got comfortable, probably.

02:50But as you can see, nobody's stopping or very few are.

02:53Most people just sort of roll on through.

02:56So yeah, it was pretty annoying as like, and I actually said to him, I was trying not to

03:00be angry cause you know, I'd, I'd done the wrong thing and I was getting a penalty.

03:03And I said, and I've, Japanese police are always very polite.

03:06I've never met a policeman here that wasn't polite and professional.

03:09He's very polite and professional.

03:11And I said to him, do you think it was dangerous?

03:13Cause I watched all four directions to make sure all the other three directions to make

03:18sure no one was coming.

03:20And then I went across and I said, so I was being very careful.

03:23I said, I drive like an old man.

03:25I was being very careful.

03:26Do you think what I did was dangerous?

03:28And he said, no, but you have to stop.

03:31And then the funny thing was he said something else in English and I said to him, Oh, and

03:35then I said in English to him, I think your English might be better than my Japanese.

03:39And that's just a thing that I say, right?

03:42I've got a habit.

03:43If someone speaks English, it doesn't matter how poor it is.

03:46I say that because I find that people like it.

03:48If you say that to them, it's just sort of a, in Japanese culture, it's a sort of a cool

03:54thing to say, you know, that, that my Japanese is really bad and your English is much better.

03:58So I said that to him.

03:59And then as soon as I said that we were great buddies, he was being really friendly and

04:04eventually they wrote the ticket and gave me the ticket and I went into my friend's

04:06house, which were right outside.

04:08So I went into my friend's house, but him and his wife and kids had been watching from

04:12the window.

04:13So I went inside, they all had a good laugh at me and I sat down at the table and then

04:18a couple of minutes later, the copper came in through the door into the Genkan and called

04:24out my name and I went to the Genkan and said, yes.

04:29And he said, what country are you from?

04:31And I didn't like it because I thought it was an official question and I didn't like

04:37it.

04:38I said, is that important?

04:39And he said, he said, Oh, I just want to know what country you're from.

04:41And I said, I'm from Australia.

04:44And I said, is that important?

04:45Why do you need to know that?

04:46And he said, he said, because I was struggling a bit to be cool.

04:50You know, I kept in the back of my head was Bosozoku, Bosozoku, because I've always wanted

04:54to ask a Japanese cop how many tickets they've given to Bosozoku, because he can bet it's

04:58none and how many, how many tickets they've given to truck drivers, because that'd be

05:02very few too.

05:03But anyway, that was in the back of my head, you know, so he'd used up all my patience.

05:07I was like, is that important?

05:08And then he said to me, it was all in Japanese now, and he said to me, I wanted to tell my

05:12boss that the, that the foreigner, um, said my English was really good and I wanted to

05:20know what country you're from so I could tell my boss, can you believe that?

05:25He felt so good about me saying that about how good his English was that he wanted to

05:29go back to this, back to the police station and tell his boss that this foreigner that

05:34he'd given a ticket to told him how great his English was.

05:36I mean, he was really kind, look, I didn't stop fully at that crossing and I got a penalty

05:44for it.

05:45100% my mistake.

05:46The cop was professional and very polite and wanted to be buddies.

05:50So the penalty was 7,000 yen, which is $70, which is really painful.

05:57I don't have a spare 7,000 yen to throw at this.

06:01The other problem is that when you get a penalty, the next time you renew your driver's license,

06:05you have to go to the mandatory, uh, safety course where you have to sit for three hours

06:12and be lectured and watch videos and all sorts of stuff like that.

06:15We've talked about that before.

06:17That's painful too.

06:20So anytime you get a penalty here from the police, it's, it's not good at count compounds

06:25into all sorts of problems.

06:26So, but I did the crime, so I've got to do the time.

06:34In the meantime, Bosozoku and dangerous truck drivers and people staring at their phones

06:38and kids standing on the passenger seat of cars with their faces against the airbag.

06:43It continues to go on, but I'm going to stop at every railway intersection I come across.

06:52Anyway, it's fair.

06:56More videos coming soon.

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