Japanese Sweet Potato vendor drives his truck to the fire department on fire

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Japanese Sweet Potato vendor drives his truck to the fire department on fire - lemy.lol

https://japantoday.com/category/national/japanese-man-drives-truck-that’s-on-fire-directly-to-fire-station-drops-flaming-potatoes [https://japantoday.com/category/national/japanese-man-drives-truck-that%E2%80%99s-on-fire-directly-to-fire-station-drops-flaming-potatoes]

Do we have a community for unnecessary red circles?
At Lemmy.lol? Wow did realize it was so close to home.
Yaki imoooooo
For reference, the Japanese equivalent to the ice cream truck blasting music to attract kids is the roasted sweet potato truck singing “yaki imo” which literally means “roasted potato”. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_IwZxOfdk&pp=ygUOWWFraSBp…
This one must have been some really heavy metal style.
Yaki Imo Truck

YouTube
I can see the logic used here, he came literally to the wrong conclusion but it’s a funny story since no-one got injured and it’s a gift to the fire service’s public outreach department to educate people on what not to do.
Yeah the entire time I was thinking… I wonder if the fire would have went out by now if he just stopped fanning the flames
It wouldn’t. It’s a food-truck, it’s full of flammable stuff.

Oh, yeah this is great cause it went about as well as it possibly could have while being absolutely ridiculous.

But he drove his Fire Truck to the station. Can see where he thought that was right but somehow was really really wrong.

“Hmm I’m on fire, let’s get to the ‘shop’ where they put out fires as quick as possible!”

Was I lied to moments before or is this a really tragic story?

Its really a shame. These were all really just sweet potatoes.
Those poor sweet (very) hot potatoes.

“The fire department must have been freaked out when the reports kept coming in closer and closer to the station.”

The call was coming from inside the station!

It’s like driving your car to the nearest mechanic when it breaks down! “So, how soon can you take a look at it?”
I’m just going to put this over there with the rest of the fire.

“The fuck did I just see driving past my shop?!?!”

“Hey, Han lee, check this shit out!”

at least that’s the translation I’m going with.

Literally “coming in hot”
Okay but if Starfleet had a purple uniform tunic then what division would it be for?!
Baked potatoes for all the firemen 😃
I thought it was bad in America cuz we had to drive ourselves to the hospital. Damn.

The link seems to be broken, this one works

japantoday.com/…/japanese-man-drives-truck-that’s…

Man drives truck that’s on fire directly to fire station, drops flaming potatoes

On the night of March 12, the operators of the 119 emergency call center in Kumamoto City received a call about a car that was on fire. Then they received another call about the car, and then another. However, the multiple reports weren’t due to diligent residents all reporting the same blaze…

Japan Today

What is wild is that you link actually still works for me. Maybe a regional thing?

They just copied SoraNews so try this soranews24.com/…/japanese-man-drives-truck-thats-…

Japanese man drives truck that’s on fire directly to fire station, drops flaming potatoes[Videos]

Roasted sweet potato truck turns into mobile fireball.

SoraNews24 -Japan News-

I don’t think that it’s a regional thing, just the way the URL encoding is parsed

Your links seems to work fine, thanks :)

Crowley goes to Japan
Someone in the council is getting a strongly worded letter that people these days don’t respect the laws of physics

“Sir, sir our truck is on fire!!”

“Gimme your coordination I call the fire department!”

“We can’t do that… They already have a lot to do… I have a better idea!”

initial d Music starts

hits the gas pedal