COPS CALLED TO TOKYO STORE AFTER GAMERS GO MAD

Police were reportedly called to a Japanese store on Saturday, after gamers desperately tried to grab a PS5.

The staff at Yodobashi Camera, in Tokyo, used a random lottery system in a bid to deter scalpers – but when handing out the few hundred tickets, the excited crowd surged forward.

The chaos continued despite a spike in Tokyo’s coronavirus cases and the current state of emergency, and police arrived within 10 minutes.

The sale was eventually cancelled as a result.

Dave Gibson, who was there at the time, tweeted: “They cancelled the sale due to people being insane!! Pushed so hard even the cash registers and staff went backwards. I’ve never seen that kind of insanity in Japan before…”

This post first appeared on Thesun.co.uk

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