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.
The 29-year-old sergeant from Tagawa Police Station is being treated for the wound to his buttocks.
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.
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.
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