Man in Squid Game costume tased after approaching police officer with knife NetflixAn unnamed man wearing a Squid Game costume was tased after he approached a police officer while wielding a knife. Australian police are seeking witnesses after a man wielding a knife was spotted wearing a costume resembling those worn by characters in Netflix\u2018s hit television series \u2018Squid Game.\u2019 Around 11:40 p.m. on September 5, witnesses saw a 38-year-old man boarding a train that arrived at platform 24 at Sydney\u2019s Central Station. Officers entered the carriage and approached the man, who was reportedly carrying a knife. According to the police, the knife-wielding man \u201cadvanced towards\u201d an NSW female officer, who then tasered him. He was later arrested and taken to Prince of Wales Hospital for assessment. \u201cPolice will allege the man was in possession of a knife and advanced towards an officer,\u201d police said. \u201cThe officer deployed her taser and the man was arrested without further incident.\u201d No passengers or officers were injured in the incident, but police are now urging anyone with relevant information or who may have witnessed it to come forward. The incident follows Netflix\u2019s announcement that \u2018Squid Game\u2019 has been renewed for a highly anticipated second season. The first season of the South Korean dystopian survival thriller became a global sensation upon its release in September 2021 and has since accumulated over 1.65 billion views. It has won six Emmy Awards, became the most-watched series in 94 countries worldwide in 2021, and continues to be the most-viewed show on Netflix. The popular series centers on a group of financially desperate players who compete in deadly children\u2019s games for a massive cash prize, while being overseen by a number of guards dressed in pink jumpsuits and full-face masks. Squid Game Season 2 is set to be released on December 26, drawing fans back into the hit series\u2019 dark and twisted competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man in Squid Game costume tased after approaching police officer with knife NetflixAn unnamed man wearing a Squid Game costume was tased after he approached a police officer while wielding a knife. Australian police are seeking witnesses after a man wielding a knife was spotted wearing a costume resembling those worn by characters in Netflix\u2018s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}