thumbs up/thumbs down thursday!

it's time for another installment of the fabulous thumbs up thumbs down!! this week they are actually the same thing!

first i have to give a thumbs down to mall/university rent-a-cops using segways as a mode of transportation. it's not as if most of them couldn't use the exercise! also it doesn't feel very safe to have a large man on a segway trying to navigate that thing through throngs of people. do they really get to the "situation" quicker on a segway? hopefully they don't actually need to arrest someone, i don't think you can ride a segway tandem style. i guess i shouldn't judge since i've never ridden one but they don't seem very cop-ish to me.

this brings us to the thumbs up....

these are pictures of the chinese swat team! yes, you read me correctly, the chinese swat team uses segways!! since the chinese don't strike me as the type of people to joke around, i assume these are true. apparently they are training for a possible terriost attack at the olympics! segways go about 12mph, hopefully there's not some type of high speed chase situation. how amazing would it be to see these guys coming at you? i'm not going to lie, they are totally a little scary. they seem way more hard core then that cop in the mall...