Police Nail ‘Tyre Repairmen’

(Akron/Tire Review) According to local media, enterprising Cambodian tyre repairmen were jailed after being arrested for spicing up their business by covering roads near their roadside repair stalls with nails.

Chamcarmon district police in the capital of Phnom Penh said they detained Khy Pros, 21, and So Mom, 26, both of whom made a living from fixing flat tyres on the roadside, on August 17.The arrests came after a senior government official’s car was stopped by a suspicious quantity of nails on the road.

Both men face charges of vandalism and disrupting public order by Phnom Penh Municipal Court and are now serving up to six months in Prey Sar jail awaiting trial, court officials said on Monday. If convicted, the pair face up to five years each in prison.