Not that many slaps have gone down, probably about a dozen all told, but it's now front page news and all over the TV news are interviews with the Police Union and the Police Commissioner saying "Please stop slapping our policemen!" and promising to get very mean about it in the future.
Although we all know that Policemen Slapping isn't new in HK. I mean, even Fiji 10s players "slapped" HK policemen in Wan Chai back in March 2009 - which lead us to bring out the Riot Squad against us - gosh, I am conflicted here, aren't I - but personally I think "slapping" in that case was a euphemism for "punching out" because these Fiji boys were out drinking and we've all seen what happens around the Metropole Hotel in Downtown Suva on an average Friday night, don't we?, and KNOW that's not what anyone would call "slapping", and, besides, no one sane calls out a riot squad late at night after they've been slapped.
But these current bout of slaps really are slaps! And they happen after the police stop expensive fast cars to breathalyze the drivers. And, yup, that's how it's going down among the HK rich: the cops stop you when you're driving fast under the influence, and you get out and say "How dare you!!!" and you slap them!
Oh cool! I've just found one on youtube:
And isn't that the worst acting on the policeman's part you have ever seen?
The history behind Hong Kong's hottest new trend is that it was all started by wealthy socialite Amina Mariam Bokhary, (gosh, she now even has her own Wikipedia entry), niece of HK High Court Judge at the Court of Final Appeal. I don't know this young lady - thankfully - but she is reputedly a notorious drink-driver and trouble-maker who always makes a point of slapping cops whenever they stop her doing whatever she's doing. It happens so often the police began to make a fuss about her ... and thus the very next slap, she was arrested.
First time they took her to court, she got off with a small fine! And then she slapped another policeman and was again arrested, and, for the second time, she got off, but this time she was given a warning that she wasn't allowed to do it again! But she did it again ... and ... GOT OFF!!!
And, yes indeed, everyone all over HK was saying, loudly, that they had lost faith in the HK Judiciary, and there were Protests and Marches, and lots of exercising our Freedom of Assembly type gatherings!
And Amina, so I've been told, was so into gloating over her triumph that she began appealing to everyone - through facebook I believe - to also slap police men whenever they try to stop you doing whatever ...
And knowing there was no penalty attached, Police Officer Slapping became the big game in town! Everyone got into it.
Big Big Trouble from the police! Naturally! "We're not putting up with this!" said the HK Police Force, and so they, after much agitation and the Courts being asked to rethink their judgement, they reneged on the verdict of that case and Amina was hauled off to jail. It was meant to be for six weeks, although she was let out after a month! Very Paris Hilton!!!
So that's what's currently going down with everyone waiting with bated breath for what happens with the next slap. I'm looking forward to it because whatever happens it's either going to be BIG - and someone silly is going to be put away for a long time for a simple slap - or it's NOT going to big, in which case the whole city will be out there demanding SOMETHING BE DONE ABOUT IT!!!!
So that's my choice for this week:
THREATDOWN
The thin edge of the wedge
that may cause the breakdown of
The Hong Kong Judiciary System!
Later: Just look what someone very naughty has done with that TV footage:
LOVE!!!! I can see this being the hot new DJ's choice song in HK's Rave Dance Scene! I know I'd dance to it!
Gosh I love HK!
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