Slow crime day? Thai cops take the viral #TetrisChallenge

Six Thai cops joined the #TetrisChallenge. Photo: Police 5 Thailand / Facebook
Six Thai cops joined the #TetrisChallenge. Photo: Police 5 Thailand / Facebook

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:

The Netherlands Marine Corps who bared almost all for the photoshoot is perhaps the most pervasive.

Photo: @Ifrc / Twitter
Photo: @Ifrc / Twitter

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.

The Newhaven Lifeboat

Dietarians behind the ‘Dietetic Pocket Guide.’

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Thai-style renditions of the “Harlem Shake”

 



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