In the past, I’m sure many of you have seen the plethora of Hello Kitty products available. Last one I heard of was an SD card, by way of Shiny Shiny. Now I ran across these two things...first, Thai police officers being forced to wear Hello Kitty armbands as punishment for various transgressions:

“This is to help build discipline. We should not let small offences go unnoticed,” Police Colonel Pongpat Chayapan told Reuters news agency.
“Guilty officers will be made to wear the armbands in the office for a few days, with instructions not to disclose their offences. Let people guess what they have done,” he said.

And then there’s this:

The world should note the hand-crocheted shoulder-stock muffler and the anodized titanium plating. Several choices in stock wood are available. With a limited run of only 500, buy now before they’re gone! A mere $100 extra includes Glambo’s signature wood-burnt into the opposite side of the handguard. A perfect gift for the young lady of the house.
A bargain at only $1072.95!

They gotta be kidding, right?