Is this a video with a criminal news report on Japanese television true?

In January 2024, a video was encouraged in Runet, where it was supposedly shown how the leading Japanese television channel could not restrain laughter during the air. The fact is that instead of an arrested person in the program, it was as if by chance showed a dog sitting in a police car. We checked whether this fragment of reporting is real.

In the Russian -speaking segment of the Internet, the video began to be actively distributed from January 1, 2024, and by the time this text was written, the publication with it was gained a total of several million views. Most often, the viral video was signed as follows: "Nothing unusual, just the announcers of Japanese TV read out a criminal report." While the authors of some posts jokingly called Dog from the video "Woolen violator" and ironically writethat now "the city can sleep calmly."

The most popular video was in Telegram, where it was published by channels "Ax 18+"(2 million views), 4ch (309,000), "Leonardo Davinchik"(297 000),"KB"(260 000),"Leprosy"(149 000), Voblya (145,000), "The goat screamed"(77 000), 4Chan (63,000), "Cargo 200"(61 000),"Russia now"(49,000),"Black humor"(43,000), TG Team Russia (33,000) and other publications on the alleged error on Japanese television were gained by hundreds of thousands of views on VKontakte (examples here, here, here, here, here And here), and also meet in Tiktok And Instagram*, on Reddit And "Picabu". In the foreign segment of the network, the video was distributed at the end of 2023. For example, in mid -November this video Placed On the Chinese site Bilibili, where it gained 422,000 views.

Video: social networks

The hull lasts a little more than a minute. The record shows how the presenter reads information about the arrest of a man suspected of violating the rules of the road, but on the air, instead of a photograph of this person, a dog was allegedly demonstrated. At the same time, the animal was first captured by a white pickupa sitting in the driver's seat, and then in the back seat of a police car. In the video you can hear the host first does not understand why the photo of the dog is shown, and then begins to flood with laughter. The video distributed in the rune has Japanese, English and Russian subtitles.

On suspicion of violation of the law, an employee of a transport company was arrested. The detainee is the name of Sigeru (heard laughter) of Simad, he is 42 years old. (Hypotot.) Is this not a mistake? Is this a photo? (Again in a full voice.) During movement along the highway, Siger Simada ignored the signals of all 32 traffic lights. (Laughs.) An eyewitness, who watched this with his own eyes, said to the police, and Simada was detained. As follows from the police protocol, Simada (laughs) did not plead guilty. (The announcer begins to laugh for a long time, and his co-host goes to the next news.) The 29-year-old bus driver was arrested for dangerous driving in the Tsurumi-Ku area of ​​the city of Yokogam.

None of the publication we found, the name of the Japanese television channel was indicated, where this broadcast was supposedly conducted. However, in the upper left corner of the video, a worship is noticeable with the inscription BRH News. "Verified" found out that this is a Japanese logo YouTube-Canala ブリッヒー! News Channel. The description of the profile indicates that all the plots of news and reports in this account are humorous in nature: “The announcers of Tsubas, Fukui, Sakura and Sito represent various fake news.” Separately, it is noted that every day on the air of this channel there are different incidents. For example, a characteristic feature of the leading tsubasa is that he does not know how to restrain laughter. 

Full release with the "depth" of the shown photo of the dog in a police car was Placed On YouTube on October 26, 2022 and scored almost 260,000 views. Then the authors of the channel separately Published Shorts with a viral passage (145,000 views), but the joke became truly popular in Tiktok-count the show, where video Sicked 5.3 million views.

A picture of the arrested dog Walks On the network at least 2016. Photo Placed User under the nickname TAKA, by words which it was made two years earlier in the Japanese city of Nagoy. Author suggestedthat the police just caught Lost An animal to return it to the owner.

Photo: @alice_herb (X)

As for the photograph with the dog driving a car, as the analysis using the Tineye service is evidenced, it appeared On the network no later than 2009.

Thus, many Internet users and administrators of large Telegram channels accepted a humorous sketch for real news release, when creating which a funny mistake was made.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: screenshot video @burihihiiinewschannel (YouTube)

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