Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Poor pussy

Via Andy Ridgwell (whose latest paper was featured in Science's "best of the rest" recently [sub required]):

Thailand is dressing up errant policemen in "Hello Kitty" armbands to humiliate them. In order to take off the armband, they have to go up to a random member of the public, purring and meowing. If the member of the public cannot say "poor pussy" three times while stroking the policeman, without smiling, then the policeman gets to take off the armband.


Japan, not to be outdone, has introduced a humiliation system for cats - dressing them up as Thai policemen:


Poor pussy indeed!

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