Posted on 07/06/2009 1:48:03 PM PDT by Gomez
KATHMANDU (AFP) — Nepal's anti-corruption authority has come up with a novel solution to rampant bribe-taking at the country's only international airport -- the pocketless trouser.
The authority said it was issuing the new, bribe-proof garment to all airport officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.
"We sent a team to observe the growing complaints about the behaviour of airport authorities and workers towards travellers and we discovered that the reports were true," said Ishwori Prasad Paudyal, spokesman for the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).
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Maybe we should require politicians to wear them.
You’ll have to take away their freezers too.
Nepal’s government is Maoist (and as we all know, only bourgeois pigs need pockets....also keeps anyone from having one of those nasty little picture-taking cell phones....)
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