Actress Ai Takabe, 20, on Tuesday became an honorary police chief for the day at Ikebukuro police station in Tokyo to raise public awareness for safe driving.
Takabe, who is currently studying for her license at a driving school, said, “I will be careful when I drive after I get my license. I wish everyone would drive safely because there are many elderly people on the roads.”
© Japan Today
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techall
Well, Maybe she can catch Hawker's killer, she can't do any worse than the regular police.
lipscombe
ikebukuro? lots of bicycles there, she must have been busy
Noripinhead
Is that a Benny Hill salute?
lipscombe
hahaha, they should play the benny hill music and speed up the film whenever the J-police are on TV, would be somewhat fitting.
IchyaParadise
JP...entertainment at its best.
soldave
"I wish everyone would drive safely because there are many elderly people on the roads who don't look where they are going and don't drive safely".
electric2004
And how about a campaign for "savety romping"?
Dogdog
Voted best police chiefest of the year.....
timeon
arrest me!
chibaman
I will be careful when I drive after I get my license, but until then I will continue to be a ditz and be equally as dangerous as the oldies.
Nessie
I hear they're trying this "...for a day" idea with the PM position.
jerseyboy
techall...Catching Hawker's killer may be asking too much. But maybe she can catch that pesky monkey that keeps eluding the local keystone cops.
blauereiter
LOL.
romulus3
I wish she would pat me down and discover my concealed weapon.
DBC
VIVA LA FRANCE! says Ai Takabe.
soldave
Nessie - I hope so. I'd love to see Hard Gay go on an international diplomacy mission.
Kameleon
And other drivers duh... I guess when there aren't any elderly people it's alright to drive crazily, yeah, that's it...
stanoue
Hey - this photo shows, those police uniforms flatter NOONE!
Sarge
That is an excellent salute!
"Takabe, who is currently studying for her license at a driving school"
Why the heck does everyone study for their license at these insanely expensive driving schools here? Heck, in my hometown in the States, nobody went to a driving school. We all got our permits and practiced driving with our fathers or mothers or older siblings and then took our test for our licenses.
Starke
Because it is more like a memory test and the only people who know the sequence are the driving school instructors.
Richard_the_First
It's a money making scam. All 18 year olds do it, pouring billions of yen in to the economy.
akaguma
do we have to drive carefully because octogenarian taro and his yoda-double wife are driving recklessly?
techall
"Yoda-double wife", I like that!