Fooling the police with a ‘safety belt T-shirt’ in China
Published on March 2, 2013 by Tycho de Feyter
Chinese drivers who don’t like to wear a safety belt can now buy an innovative ‘safety belt T-shirt’, priced between 35 yuan and 50 yuan in various online shops. Chinese police is more alert on safety belts after a few high profile accidents where occupants were launched trough car windows and ended up very dead. The penalty for not wearing a safety belt is 50 yuan and a deduction of two points, out of 12, of the driver’s license.
Drivers hope the T-shirts will fool a busy policeman when he looks quickly inside. The shirts attracted attention from Chinese media who asked the police what they thought about all this.
Spokesman Xue Fengxian from the Shanghai Public Security Bureau Traffic Police Detachment said the driver of a vehicle is required by law to use seat belts. Wearing the T-shirt however, is not illegal in itself. Another spokesman, this time in Heilongjiang Province, called wearing the T-shirts “self-deceptive”, but also said wearing the shirts for “entertainment purposes” was allowed.
Well, with such a friendly police corps we expect sales of these shirts to go through the window roof.
Via Sohu, HJnews, iqilu, Toabao.
Saturday, 2 March om 22:26
Why is it so unpopular to use seat belts in China?
One person told me that his belly was too fat and didn’t want pressure on it, I am sure this is not the main reason, lol.
Monday, 4 March om 19:29
Or you could just wear the seatbelt. The shirt won’t save your life.
Saturday, 9 March om 23:36
[...] Bron: Carscoops via Carnewschina [...]
Sunday, 10 March om 05:54
[...] [Πηγή: CarNewsChina] [...]
Tuesday, 12 March om 02:34
[...] let you guess which category the “safety belt t-shirt” falls [...]
Tuesday, 12 March om 05:07
[...] let we theory that difficulty a “safety belt t-shirt” falls [...]
Tuesday, 12 March om 05:50
in Italy we had 30 years ago
Tuesday, 12 March om 11:33
[...] let you guess which category the “safety belt t-shirt” falls [...]
Wednesday, 13 March om 02:35
Once again the idiots have devised a way to outsmart all the safeties man has come up with to save them. This is a good thing – nature itself can’t keep up with thinning the herd.
Wednesday, 13 March om 05:36
[...] (Found at CarNewsChina.) [...]
Friday, 15 March om 14:09
[...] drivers hate to wear their safety belts. Instead, they wear specially designed clothing to pretend they are buckled up. But that won’t stop the seat-belt reminder lights and beeps, [...]
Saturday, 16 March om 17:09
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Saturday, 16 March om 21:07
[...] ソース：Fooling the police with a ‘safety belt T-shirt’ in China | CarNewsChina.com – China Auto N… [...]
Saturday, 16 March om 23:07
[...] Em vez de pagar uma multa de cerca de 50 yuans (cerca de 16 reais) e perder dois pontos na carteira de motorista, diversos motoristas chineses estão pagando esse mesmo valor em uma camiseta “inovadora” que engana os policiais mais distraídos, segundo o site chinês especializado em veículos “Car News China”. [...]
Saturday, 16 March om 23:28
[...] Em vez de pagar uma multa de cerca de 50 yuans (cerca de 16 reais) e perder dois pontos na carteira de motorista, diversos motoristas chineses estão pagando esse mesmo valor em uma camiseta “inovadora” que engana os policiais mais distraídos, segundo o site chinês especializado em veículos “Car News China”. [...]
Saturday, 16 March om 23:28
[...] Em vez de pagar uma multa de cerca de 50 yuans (cerca de 16 reais) e perder dois pontos na carteira de motorista, diversos motoristas chineses estão pagando esse mesmo valor em uma camiseta “inovadora” que engana os policiais mais distraídos, segundo o site chinês especializado em veículos “Car News China”. [...]
Tuesday, 19 March om 00:07
Who is an idiot? Anybody that straps themselves in place so that air bags could beat them to death.
Tuesday, 19 March om 00:15
The joke is on the user! Who is the real idiot? Answer: Anybody that would strap themselves in to get beat to death.
Tuesday, 19 March om 14:04
[...] bälteströja [...]
Thursday, 28 March om 07:58
In 1989 an Italian psychiatrist Claudio Ciaravolo wanted to study the dynamics of how rumours are spread. So he invented the story of these t-shirts being sold in his home town of Naples. To this day Italian media cites this story as something that really happened but it’s not true – they were never produced
http://www.ciaravolo.it/maglietta.html
Monday, 1 April om 04:51
[...] drivers hate to wear their safety belts. Instead, they wear specially designed clothing to pretend they are buckled up. But that won’t stop the seat-belt reminder lights and beeps, [...]
Thursday, 4 April om 18:18
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