New Zealand cops to rugby fans: No mankinis, please

January 29th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

When I think of New Zealand, thoughts immediately flow to … um, Flight of the Concords? (Brit, present. Jermaine, present. Maury, present.) But my cultural understanding of this nation has now blossomed to one more thing: cops aren’t letting rugby fans wear mankinis to matches anymore. For shame!

New Zealand cops have slapped a ban on Borat fans wearing his trademark ‘mankini’ to a rugby competition in a bid to protect kids’ innocence.

Police let dozens of rugby fans wear the skimpy green swimsuit last year.

But this year, the luminous thong made famous by Sacha Baron Cohen will be banned at the world rugby Sevens tournament in Wellington as police crack down on public decency.

A police officer told New Zealand TV: “It’s a family event and there will be children there.”

He pleaded with fans to have “a sense of decency” as police pledged to turn anyone away wearing the swimsuit.

What’s really weird about all this is I heard some hedge fund firm is dropping business suits in favor of mankinis in an effort to regain “a sense of decency.” To each their own, I suppose.

{Via Fark.}