Taiwanese politician snaps chopsticks with his butt in exchange for votes

A remember election has develop into a serious pain in the butt for one particular prospect.

The recall vote for the mayor of Taipei, Taiwan, received extra appealing last 7 days when Taipei Town Councilor Chiu Wei-chieh pledged to “snap a single chopstick in two with his buttocks for each individual 10,000 votes exceeding 400,000 in the remember towards then-Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu,” according to the Taipei Times.

Han experienced infuriated individuals by pulling a de Blasio and functioning “as the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) prospect in the Jan. 11 presidential elections, coming into the race a handful of months following he was elected mayor, in what some voters reported was a betrayal of his promises for the duration of his mayoral marketing campaign,” according to the paper.

Chiu got a lot more than he bargained for with the remember stunt as 939,090 citizens voted for Han’s removal — much higher than the essential 574,996 votes.

However, Chiu stored his promise and, in accordance to the paper, posted a movie on Tuesday of him busting chopsticks with his butt — prompting a New Taipei City-centered gastroenterologist Chang Chen-jung, to warn that “splinters from broken chopsticks could unintentionally pierce the flesh and lead to cellulitis.”

Chang spoke as out he was worried persons could possibly consider to emulate Chiu right after seeing his feat on online video, incorporating he had “seen instances of people who experienced inserted factors into their anus, which had to be taken off by surgical treatment or endoscopy.”