Thai cops punished by Hello Kitty.

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Police chiefs in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules - an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband.
The armband is large, bright pink and has a Hello Kitty motif with two hearts embroidered on it.
From today, officers who are late, park in the wrong place or commit other minor transgressions will have to wear it for several days.
The armband is designed to shame the wearer, police officials said.
"This is to help build discipline. We should not let small offences go unnoticed," Police Colonel Pongpat Chayapan told Reuters news agency.
"Guilty officers will be made to wear the armbands in the office for a few days, with instructions not to disclose their offences. Let people guess what they have done," he said.
Further offences would be dealt with using a more traditional disciplinary panel, he said.
The cartoon character Hello Kitty was first introduced by Japanese company Sanrio in 1974.
The cute round-faced cat has become an Asia-wide marketing phenomenon, with Hello Kitty products such as stationery, hair accessories and kitchen appliances available across the region.

cruel and unusual punishment, me thinks. This MUST go against The Geneva Convention.

Don't laugh.....but we have some losers over here in one of our minor political parties who would actually complain about this. They are so PC it isn't funny. They really don't play from a full deck. The major political parties humour them every so often to ensure they get their votes on major issues. However, I'm sure if they saw something like this introduced in our country they would cry foul. They would say it was demeaning/ belittling....blah blah blah.

However, I think this is just a publicity stunt to hide the fact that they do have a few bad cops over there. I know they have some pretty corrupt cops over there. Had a friend spend several months in jail when he was set up by corrupt cops just because he wouldn't give them some cash when they blackmailed him by saying they would say they found drugs on him if he didn't hand over a few $$$. He told them to fly a kite and for his pleasure he spent several months in jail until our Government got him out on a 'deal'. This allowed the Thai government to save face by saying their police force weren't corrupt and my friend had his 'so-called' guilty plea expunged by our Government on his arrival back home.

thats stupid