Were they pretending to be a set of action figures? Making social commentary on all those tables piled with “evidence” shown to the media?
Nope. Six Thai cops this week with time on their hands joined the #TetrisChallenge that’s currently compelling people to do strange things around the globe.
A photo of six cops on their backs surrounded by the essential gear of traffic cops – cones, motorbikes, jumper cables, safety vests and more – was circulating online today.
What is the Tetris Challenge? Just the latest odd fad that has people from soldiers to surgeons on the floor, surrounded by equipment laid out in a grid, sort of like the world’s most addictive video game.
It’s the latest in a fad whose lineage stretches from, at the least, 2013’s Harlem Shake to the SMH-stupefying Tide Pod Challenge that had teens joking about eating laundry detergent enough that a few actually did. At least the Tetris Challenge seems on the silly-but-safe side, rather than the also-regrettable Bird Box Challenge of ealy 2019.
Thai-style renditions of the “Harlem Shake”
Here are some notable entries:
Ons lichaam is ons wapen#TetrisChallenge
Our body is our weaponWe challenge https://t.co/dJtSXTOjFO. Rotterdam@sebohofkamp pic.twitter.com/vvUgU6d1jg
— Korps Mariniers (@korpsmariniers) October 3, 2019
The Netherlands Marine Corps who bared almost all for the photoshoot is perhaps the most pervasive.
Red Cross Society in Japan.
A Hungarian priest from St. Michael’s Parish in Budapest joins the challenge with two clergy boys. (Hmm.)
Ten employees at a Hungarian cultural center stepped it up with costumes, curtains and electrical equipment.
So it turns out you can fit quuuuite a lot of stuff into an RNLI Severn Class Lifeboat.
If you can name every bit of kit in the photo then you win a tour of the Newhaven Lifeboat from our Coxswain!
Now, where did that orange buoy come from again…?#TetrisChallenge pic.twitter.com/iPkGm12WHX
— Newhaven Lifeboat (@NewhavenRNLI) October 5, 2019
The Newhaven Lifeboat
Tetris challenge of the dietitian! #dietitian #TetrisChallenge pic.twitter.com/arCtUIoJcn
— Dietetic Pocket Guide (@DPGdietetics) October 4, 2019
Dietarians behind the ‘Dietetic Pocket Guide.’
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Thai-style renditions of the “Harlem Shake”
