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My problem with this sign in Japan is that I’m actually not sure it was mis-translated at all. The photos match the text quite well.

What I can’t figure out, though, is exactly what message it’s trying to convey.

It turns out that there’s a whole series of these, most seemingly conveying that cigarettes can burn other people. (Which, while true, is generally not why people take offense to smoking in the United States.)

Whatever you do, don’t ever, ever give a judge reason to sue you, or it’ll be The Case of the $54 Million Pants.

It’s unfortunate that this video has a title that reveals exactly why it’s so funny. Since it’s easy to miss what’s going on in the first few seconds, it’s an episode of COPS in which the officer has just been sent to get the resident out of a house that is on fire. You hear him say “10-4″ on the radio, and then he runs up to the door, saying, “We’re gonna have to kick this door in!” before he even gets to it.

And then… Well, just watch. You can hear what sounds like the fire department on the radio in the background. (Actually, it looks like PD was on scene before FD, so they were running into the burning building trying to search for residents.)