Re:Lets Get Arrested (2019)
by sprayk on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:38PM
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The first place most foreigners will get a taste of that (or at least where I got a taste) is the policeman with a very long stick standing on a small, raised platform in the train station below the Narita International Airport.
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I'd never heard of this and spent a few minutes searching. I was expecting something like a 10-foot stick but it's more like 4-feet. (paywall but I used Safari's reader mode) https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/20/reference/polic...
Yea I guess it's big relative to the batons I see police in the US and Europe carrying, but not absurdly big. It was large enough that it looked like it would be awkward to use with any amount of precision.
EDIT: read the article in chrome's reader mode, thanks for the tip!