NewsAugust 18, 2015

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A pair of roadside mailboxes that were uniformly bent by a falling signboard during a typhoon earlier this month have become celebrities in Taiwan, drawing steady lines of people to snap photos and inspiring fan merchandise. Many Taiwanese think the public mailboxes resemble faces. Security guards protect the mailboxes while chuckling fans pose next to them, either bending themselves or pretending to push the boxes...

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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A pair of roadside mailboxes that were uniformly bent by a falling signboard during a typhoon earlier this month have become celebrities in Taiwan, drawing steady lines of people to snap photos and inspiring fan merchandise. Many Taiwanese think the public mailboxes resemble faces. Security guards protect the mailboxes while chuckling fans pose next to them, either bending themselves or pretending to push the boxes.

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