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At least, I assume Italy must have vanquished crime in all of its forms to have the time and, let’s face it, the stones for this:

In Italy, the land of fashion and elegance, it’s only natural that public officials want to look good too. And so the Italian police ordered high heeled-shoes for its 14,750 female police officers, who wanted to give their uniform a younger and sexier look.

The nearly 15,000 female police officers were reportedly “delighted” to get to wear stilettos to work. I’ll admit, the one Italian woman I know does wear insanely inappropriate shoes to work and insists that once you get used to it it’s totally cool, but I have a hard time believing that 15,000 police officers were uniformly thrilled to finally look younger and sexier, the prime concern of any police officer.

Sure, it’s impractical, but perpetrators frequently tip me upwards of $10 in singles before they realize I’m not kidding about the right to remain silent. I’ve never been more motivated!

We’ll never know how the great Official Calf’n'Ass Sculpting worked out, because while sexual discrimination standards vary from nation to nation, penny-pinching, ill-communicating bureaucracy is a universal language:

However, the Interior Ministry made a fatal mistake when it tried to save money on the shoes. After studying various bids, it awarded the €600,000 ($850,000) contract to a factory in Romania instead of to Italy’s famous but expensive shoemakers. The clinching factor was the Romanian company’s elegant design — and the low cost of €20 a pair.

But the authorities failed to realize that Romanian sizes did not conform to Italian norms — with the result that the shoes were too small for Italian feet.

Well fuck, if the government can’t be trusted to buy shoes then how are they going to be able to get the vinyl catsuits with the bras that shoot poison darts?

h/t Erica