news: 泰國：警察要換短袖清涼裝

news: 泰國：警察要換短袖清涼裝
　　Thai police may wear short sleeves to save energy: official
　　
　　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.
　　
　　Thai policecurrently have only a brown, torso-hugging long-sleeve uniform thatthey wear even while directing traffic in Bangkok』s sweltering heat.
　　
　　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.
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　　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.
　　
( i3 T# `$ u& c1 i" ?+ {: k: e7 H6 g　　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.
　　
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( p' C1 ]) D! I- O3 s. N　　 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。
　　
/ K- N  d" G) `　　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。
　　
% ]7 e! {' k% K: j  w　　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。」
　　
　　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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　　美國：野火雞感恩節突訪小鎮
　　Turkeys visit NY town for Thanksgiving
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; C* H5 ]8 K$ U6 ^　　Fifteen wild turkeys strutted into a suburban hamlet of N.Y. on Thanksgiving Day and then left just in time to avoid dinner.
　　
　　The turkeys showed up Thursday morning, drawing crowds of spectators, but left — marching in single file — at about 1 p.m.
　　
6 R# L0 c6 h6 v1 Z9 C　　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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& ]6 |/ `2 w0 W) v$ P0 v0 A7 _1 r3 I　　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.
　　
/ D  K5 L4 T4 a3 f. C* g7 R5 l3 D　　Unlikesome neighbors, Logan said, she never had thoughts of catching one ofthe turkeys in her yard and turning it into dinner.
　　
: D+ g1 G% x6 _9 \. ^) U　　"I can』t eat something that I』ve met," she said.
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) }4 g4 Z' K) q" v+ }　　 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。
　　
　　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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, a9 w* h, b$ t/ u# f! W8 C　　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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　　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。
　　
/ x# r. ?+ m0 ?9 Q3 ^0 w　　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。」