"Yes, I can write the report in Japanese." "I'm not allowed to assist you with it." "Thats fine; just hand me the paper."
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The reports are now entirely computerized. The officer who takes it can't edit the central DB, so he reads it over phone to operator.
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"Subject: McKenzo Patrick Jonathan" "Are you sure that is how he pronounces it?" "Well that's what he wrote here." Me: "It's ジ not ゾ sorry."
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Anyhow, 6 hours after I file the report: guard for bank next door, who had been alerted by passerby, takes the bag into police office.
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Desk officer: "Wow, we would have been totally hosed with the only ID being a business card in English. Good thing you filed a report."
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"We're going to need you to stamp... whoops, of course you don't have a stamp." "I brought my stamp, naturally." "YOU HAVE STAMP?"
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"I have a stamp." "Like not a trinket but a real stamp." "I am aware of the difference and brought my real stamp. It's registered."
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After leaving the officer ran out of the police station after me "Wait wait wait wait sorry can I see your ID? Forgot to ask."
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I showed her my ID, thus preventing "Impersonate a random foreigner who happened to have lost his laptop by counterfeiting stamp." attack.
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maybe you should wear a bodycam and make this into a YouTube series
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I would enjoy spending my next ten years in a place other than Japanese prison, thanks.
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