The Cambodian prime minister, Hun Manet, has ordered a ban on musical vehicle horns after videos posted on social media showed people dancing on roads and roadsides as passing lorries blasted rhythmic little tunes.
Hun Manet, who last year took over from his father, Hun Sen – who led Cambodia for 38 years, called on the ministry of public works and transportation and police across the country to immediately take action against any vehicle whose normal horn has been replaced by a tune-playing one by ripping it out and restoring the standard honking type.
He said the measure has already been implemented by provincial authorities, but he wanted to announce it publicly to make sure it was enforced nationwide.
He commented on his Facebook page on Monday that recent social media posts had shown “inappropriate activity committed by some people, especially youth and children, dancing on the roadside to the musical sounds from trucks’ horns”.
Hun Manet said such dancing affected public order and posed a traffic hazard that was a threat to life and limb, not least of all to the dancers themselves. One video shows three young people dancing in the middle of a road while a large trailer truck coming their way lays down a beat.
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Cambodian prime minister bans musical vehicle horns to deter dancing
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Cambodian prime minister bans musical vehicle horns to deter dancing
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oddly in the last few weeks when out cycling I have seen some kids making a specific but hard to describe in words hand sign when the spy a truck coming and the trucks gave the normal sounding air horn a few blasts...
So I have to go back to playing the Match of the Day theme on my old horn, one beep at a time?? Damn, so out of practise!
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Isn't this bascially the plot of the movie Footloose?
Next it'll be sun snail wallahs cranking out ringtone style jams.
Next it'll be sun snail wallahs cranking out ringtone style jams.
This dancing to truck horns went viral in Indonesia in 2016, called Om Telolet Om. Do keep up Cambodia.
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