Policeman shot in butt with own gun while battling porn vending machine bandits
TAGAWA, Fukuoka -- A police officer is in a serious condition after being shot in the buttocks with his own pistol while scuffling with porno vending machine thieves here Friday, police said.
The 29-year-old sergeant from Tagawa Police Station is being treated for the wound to his buttocks.
Two men have been arrested for robbery resulting in injury in connection with the case.
Police said the sergeant was one of three policemen to rush to the scene after a security company informed them that somebody was tampering with a pornography vending machine in an isolated part of Tagawa just before 4:30 a.m. Friday.
The officers reached the vending machine to find two men trying to break into it.
A scuffle arose and one of the men took out the sergeant's gun, firing it and sending a bullet slamming into the police officer's bottom.
