News: German nerds busted during spate of PC Engine revelry

November 03, 2007, 11:48 PM

by joel, via Akiba Blog -
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As some people were inclined to know, the PC Engine celebrated its 20th birthday on October 30. Well, a handful of people celebrated. And Akiba Blog reports that three of them, apparently German otaku on an Akihabara pilgrimage, got nabbed by the fuzz. They (allegedly?) prompted the situation by taping a poster and some flyers to a wall outside a construction site. The poster included a celebratory message directing fellow revelers to the decidedly not very festive German PCE fansite pcedaisakusen.net. Two patrol cars appeared and commenced their nerd crackdown by arresting the three as-of-yet unidentified PCE fans. Check the link for some pretty tremendous photos of the incident.

<Brandon's note:> I wonder if this might not have been a crackdown after the gaijin incidents on Halloween? Seems like everyone over reacted there, to me.