A man, 51 years old, was taken by police on Sunday. They think he took an ambulance from a hospital near Tokyo. The man, named Keiichi Kudo, said he sat in the ambulance, but he didn't remember driving it away. He might have been drinking too much alcohol.

The local fire department said the ambulance was parked at the hospital. The paramedics were helping a patient inside the hospital. When they came back, the ambulance was gone. Later, police found the ambulance on a road. It was about 400 meters away from the hospital.

Keiichi Kudo said, "I cannot remember driving it away." The police found that he had too much alcohol in his breath. They think he might have been drinking too much before he took the ambulance.