For example, in Singapore violators are subject to caning.
His report listed other mistreatment included beatings, caning, forced eating or denying food and children being hit with "various objects" including signet rings and keychains and public humiliation.
"I'd been caning it since the day I stepped off the plane to take Pete's place in The Libertines, till we finished the first Dirty Pretty Things record," he says.
The handling, thanks in part to the standard PASM adjustable dampers, is outstanding at any speed, from dawdling in commuter traffic to really caning it on a favourite back road.
It might sound a bit geek but, when you realise you're caning over £300 a month on booze, you might have a re-think of your spending habits and make some sensible changes.
His experience of the harsh school regime included his house governor caning him with a stick that was split at the end, leaving blood blisters across his hands and making him physically sick.
The country famously uses caning to punish various nonviolent infractions, such as overstaying a visa.
"I will do this all day," Leventhal said at one point, like a Victorian schoolmaster caning a child until he admits his wrongdoing.
