At some point in your life, you’ve probably contemplated just picking up and leaving, packing up all your crap and heading off to some exotic foreign country with a gorgeous beach where Mai Tai’s only cost the equivalent of one American dollar. You know, someplace like Thailand!

Until you remembered that, in the Summer months, it’s something like 100 degrees in the shade in Phuket, you already forgot the Thai word for “tampon” and Mai Tai’s actually kind of suck.

All of which effectively ended your unproductive daydreaming and (brief) love affair with Thailand—that is, until you read about the acting chief of the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok’s latest initiative to keep his troops in line: Hello Kitty armbands.

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