news: 泰國：警察要換短袖清涼裝

news: 泰國：警察要換短袖清涼裝
) d& u1 a! V! f% \5 x. V　　Thai police may wear short sleeves to save energy: official
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　　Thailand may allow its police officers to cool off by wearing a newshort-sleeve uniform, a move they hope will also help save energy atpolice stations, a spokesman said Saturday.
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! f4 H; Q4 X4 I6 m$ }　　Thai policecurrently have only a brown, torso-hugging long-sleeve uniform thatthey wear even while directing traffic in Bangkok』s sweltering heat.
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: O1 @, G" ?, ~2 D2 c) `0 d　　National police Chief Sereepisut Taemeeyaves has proposed a newlighter-weight khaki uniform that would have short sleeves to make itcooler for police on the street, spokesman Pongsapat Pongcharoen said.
　　
　　Sereepisut also hopes the change would help police save energy andreduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging officers to turn downair conditioners at police stations, Pongsapat added.
　　
　　"Wehave discussed changing to a new police uniform for a long time, tofind something more relaxed and suited to our climate," he said.
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　　Approving a new uniform is a complicated and lengthy process, and willrequire the police commission to seek a change to the laws regulatingthe force, Pongsapat added.
　　
　　
　　 上週六，泰國警方一名發言人對外公佈，泰國警察也許不久就能換上清涼的短袖制服了，泰國政府希望此舉還能幫助警察局節省能源。
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　　目前，泰國警察只有一套棕色的長袖緊身制服，就算炎炎烈日下在曼谷街頭指揮交通，他們也得穿著這身行頭。
　　
　　據發言人彭薩帕特‧彭查羅恩介紹，泰國國家警察局長捨裡披素‧德米亞威提議將目前的警察制服換成更為輕便的短袖卡其布制服，這樣在街頭執勤的警察就能涼快得多了。
　　
　　據介紹，捨裡披素警長還希望此舉能減少警局辦公室內空調的使用，以節省能源和減少溫室氣體的排放。
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　　彭薩帕特說：「關於警察換裝的問題，我們已經討論了很長時間。我們想找到一種既穿著輕便、又適合泰國氣候的服裝。」
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  u: u) G' N& e- l2 G　　他說，新制服的審批要經過一個複雜而漫長的過程，而且還需要警察委員會對相關法律做出相應的修改。
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( d$ T% n5 `; W" s  O+ c　　美國：野火雞感恩節突訪小鎮
　　Turkeys visit NY town for Thanksgiving
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　　Fifteen wild turkeys strutted into a suburban hamlet of N.Y. on Thanksgiving Day and then left just in time to avoid dinner.
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　　The turkeys showed up Thursday morning, drawing crowds of spectators, but left — marching in single file — at about 1 p.m.
　　
　　Suffolk County police were called because the turkeys created atraffic hazard while crossing a road. But the officers didn』t have tointervene because the birds kept walking — and hadn』t been seen orheard from since, residents said Friday.
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0 @4 N. l2 ?2 w  ?9 Q' K3 q　　Resident JoyceLogan said there was nopractical joke involved and the turkeys may havewandered into the Long Island neighborhood about 40 miles east ofManhattan from a nearby wooded area, where she had been hearing gobblessince summer.
　　
　　Logan said the birds walked away in a straightline between her house and her neighbor』s, and she went back inside toprepare a store-bought turkey dinner for her family.
　　
　　Unlikesome neighbors, Logan said, she never had thoughts of catching one ofthe turkeys in her yard and turning it into dinner.
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( L( v$ A+ m$ h% A　　"I can』t eat something that I』ve met," she said.
　　
　　 感恩節當天，15只野火雞「大搖大擺地」闖進美國紐約市郊的一個村莊，之後又「及時地」在晚飯前撤離了該地。
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　　這群火雞於上週四早上出現在當地，吸引了眾多居民圍觀，但到了下午一點鐘左右，它們又排著隊離開了此地。
　　
& p" A5 e+ i# C! {0 m- t　　據薩弗克縣居民上週五介紹，這群火雞過馬路時一度引發交通混亂，但由於它們一直在前進，（之後也未見蹤影，）所以聞訊趕來的警察沒有採取任何干預措施。
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+ U2 ~/ [% N. Q; ?, i; q　　當地居民喬伊絲‧洛根說，這絕對不是惡作劇，這些火雞可能從附近的一個樹林一直「溜躂」到了位於曼哈頓以東約40英里的長島。洛根說，從今年夏天開始，她就經常聽見從附近的樹林裡傳出火雞「咕咕」叫的聲音。
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: T' ~/ Z/ O% `& L7 j# Y　　洛根說，火雞們排成整齊的一隊，從她家和鄰居家之間走過，離開了小鎮；之後，洛根又回去為全家準備火雞大餐，不過火雞是從商店裡買的。
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　　洛根說，她與一些鄰居的想法不同，她從沒想過要從院子裡抓一隻火雞，把它變成盤中餐。
　　
　　她說：「我不能把我見過的東西吃掉。」