Pen Spinning Club in Thailand and Other Amazing Video Clips

Posted by Alex in Sports on July 1, 2009 at 12:31 pm

We’ve featured pen spinning before on Neatorama, but this activity is virtually a popular sport in Asia. There’s even a club of pen spinners [warning: self-starting audio] in Thailand made up of (all young males, as far as I can tell) pen spinning enthusiasts.

Urlesque blog has a selection of some of the neatest pen spinning tricks ever posted to YouTube. And to think that all I can do to my pen now is chew its end! Link

 
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Smiley Masks for Thai Highway Patrol

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on December 31, 2008 at 2:27 pm

Thailand, nicknamed "The Land of Smiles" by countless tourist books, are living up to its name: the highway policemen in Thailand will be wearing smiley masks to "lift the mood of motorists":

The new cloth masks, which hook behind the ears and cover the mouth and nose, will help "reduce the stress from drivers when they see the police," said Somyos, the Highway Police commander.

To that end, he said, some 200 police booths would also distribute holy water, chewing gum and mints.

He defended his force when asked why drivers needed smiley masks and gum and holy water to calm down when approached by a patrolman.

"The police are not that scary," he said. "When I was in the United States, their highway police seemed to be more fierce than Thai police. I was scared of them."

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Photo: Sarot Meksophawannakul/Bangkok Post

 
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