A thread titled “Have you ever ridden in a patrol car?” on 5ch’s “Morning Coffee” board drew a flood of personal stories. Posters described everything from being given a ride by a police officer as a kid, to traffic violations, police questioning, and accident scene investigations. Several pointed out that the back doors can’t be opened from the inside. Others wondered whether anyone had ever ridden along while the car was actually moving or had its siren blaring, and the conversation grew from there into discussion of what the ride and the cabin actually feel like.
What people said
1AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:03
Why'd you end up riding in one?
2AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:05
Yeah
I was a kid, don't remember why
A cop let me hop in
4AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:06
Apparently the cop was a fan of mine and asked for my autograph inside the patrol car
8AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:11
Saw an elementary school kid make his patrol car debut in front of a convenience store a few days ago
10AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:16
Yeah
When I got arrested for murder
Living in a holding cell these days, not prison yet (留置所 = pre-trial detention, as opposed to actual prison)
12AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:17
Ah, if a parked one counts, I rode in one for a speeding ticket too
13AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:18
It should only count if they actually drove you somewhere in it
14AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:26
Got picked up by the cops as a kid and rode in one (補導 = taken in for questioning, typically used for minors)
15AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:31
There was a GT-R patrol car on display and they said I could sit in it
16AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:42
Ran away from home in middle school, was wandering Tokyo at night, and got stopped by a cop
17AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:45
Won't go into detail, but
after I picked up a wallet and turned it in at the police box, they drove me to the main station in a patrol car
18AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:49
Re: #17
Well yeah, if you'd taken the cash out first you'd get arrested
19AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:49
Riding double on a moped, blowing through a railroad crossing stop, seatbelt violation
20AnonymousNov 1, 2026 17:53
Matsumoto Hitoshi said this too, but stopping at railroad crossings is pointless
You can tell if a train's coming from the flashing lights and the clanging bell anyway
22AnonymousNov 1, 2026 18:15
Re: #20
But it's important to wait until the car ahead clears the crossing so you don't end up stuck on the tracks (トリコ/toriko)
26AnonymousNov 1, 2026 18:35
虜 (toriko) = "a captive" — being trapped
28AnonymousNov 1, 2026 18:39
Re: #26
Oh, thanks!
27AnonymousNov 1, 2026 18:37
Never liked that ride quality where you barely feel any bumps in the road
29AnonymousNov 1, 2026 18:51
Yeah
When I got arrested for murder
Not in a detention house these days — got the death penalty, living in hell now
30AnonymousNov 1, 2026 18:53
Hope there's no Hello! Project member out there who's ridden in a patrol car (ハロメン = Hello! Project idol group member)
34AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:10
No door handle in the back seat, so there was no escaping
36AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:20
Re: #1
It was something like an accident scene investigation. Afterward I went to the police station, and I think they gave me a ride home after.
Probably because the other party in the accident was an elderly bike rider.
Neither side was at fault, and it ended with no charges filed.
38AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:22
Re: #36
Stuff like that, suspicion of a minor offense, getting arrested over some bogus accusation out of nowhere — countless reasons.
Anyone who HASN'T ridden in one is the weird one
37AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:20
It's just a cop driving, no different from a taxi
Don't be such a scaredy-cat
39AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:22
Re: #37
The inside was just like a regular car lol
40AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:24
Totally forgot you can't open the door from the inside when I tried to get out of the patrol car — had a mini panic
59AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:40
Got a ride in a patrol car so I could guide them to where something was found
Aside from the special back-seat setup like Re: #40 mentioned, it was a completely ordinary car
41AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:24
While we're at it, I also rode in an ambulance when my parent got into an accident
43AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:25
Surely nobody here has ridden in a fire truck though
53AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:38
Re: #43
I was a firefighter for just one year
Of course I rode in a fire truck too
44AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:27
When you're riding in a patrol car, pedestrians stare and other cars give way — it's actually pretty fun
46AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:28
Nobody's ridden in one with the siren actually blaring though, right?
47AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:28
Apparently when you're in a patrol car, people staring is normal — it's the ones who deliberately avoid looking that seem suspicious and get pulled aside for questioning (職質, a police ID check)
48AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:32
I'm a cab driver out in the countryside. Had an elderly lady passenger with dementia — she had her address on her, so I drove her home, but she said she had no money and told me to call the cops. Called 110, and a local beat cop came flying over and said, "Ride along with me in the patrol car." Next thing I knew I was at a bank, where they pulled cash straight out of her account without asking and paid my fare with it.
Pretty sure that was flat-out illegal, but I got paid, so I just went back to work
50AnonymousNov 1, 2026 19:36
It's a normal traffic violation — you get made to fill out paperwork inside the patrol car, right?
Background and key points of this topic
Patrol car back seats are built so the doors can’t be opened from the inside, a practical safeguard against escape during transport. The experiences shared in the thread ranged far beyond arrests and police questioning — covering traffic violation processing, accident scene investigations, reporting found property, and even transporting an elderly person with dementia — making it easy to forget that simply riding in a patrol car doesn’t imply a crime. Commenters speculated that almost no one had ever ridden along while the car was actually moving or with the siren on, but no one offered concrete testimony to the contrary; most rides happened while the car was parked, during violation processing or a warning. Opinions on the ride itself were split, with some saying the cabin “felt no different from a regular car” and others finding it “distinctive and not to their taste” — reflecting differing takes on the car’s actual specs.
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