Your feelings about the following video will probably depend on your own experiences with police on the road, but the officer in the clip has received huge praise here in Japan for handling a potential traffic violation.
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Motorcycle cop caught on video applauded for doing his job by “not doing his job”【Video】
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Dec 30, 2015 - Tweet
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Saitama man sues police after getting pulled over for picking his ears while driving, wins about three bucks
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Jan 2, 2014
In the middle of this month, 41-year-old Kazunori Terashima must have felt some sense of satisfaction as his bankbook showed a transfer of 350 yen (US$3.33) from the Saitama Public Safety Commission. After struggling against the police for two and a half years over an improper traffic stop he had finally won his inalienable right to clean his ear in traffic.
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