Japanese Police

Went to get some groceries in armor as usual and saw a girl drop her purse while she was running for something or other. I nabbed the wallet and ran after her but alas I don’t think stormtroopers were designed to run and before I knew it she had disappeared into the night.
There was a police station nearby (known as Kouban (交番(こうばん)) but often spelt as “Koban”) so I decided to hand it in. What I didn’t know is how long I was going to be there…

First off you get asked questions about yourself and what you was doing etc and you get the feeling that they are trying to nail you for stealing somebody’s purse! I was asked for my ID, phone number and address etc. The police then proceeded to put on a pair of white gloves and start to remove the contents of the purse in front me. They counted how much money was inside ( in this case it was about 2000 yen ) and asked me to confirm the amount and then asked me to sign something to say that I had picked up the purse on XXX and there was XXX amount of money inside yada yada.

At the end of all this they said that they would try to get the purse back to the owner but if they couldn’t then I was entitled to keep the contents of the purse after two weeks had passed. I said that I wasn’t interested in the contents but after spending all that time at the Koban, I wasn’t going to leave until I got a picture with one of the officers ^^;
The officer said that they don’t really allow pictures of them to be taken so I promised not to show the picture to a single soul and then whispered under my breath “apart from my readers”...
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