Keeping To A Precious Metal Theme,

well sort of,

 meet the Manusia Silver, or “Silver Men” of the streets of several Indonesian cities, they are in fact beggars, a few years ago the South-East Asian country of Indonesia has seen the rise of this new type of beggar, the so-called Silver Men, inspired by the street performers who used metallic paint to transform themselves into living statues and wow passers-by with their doll-like movements, the Silver Men or Manusia Silver, as they are called in Indonesian, simply adapted the look of these performers to their own skill – begging, 

ever since Silver Men started showing up at busy street intersections in Jakarta and other big cities, about a year ago, they have been getting a lot of attention booth from the press and on social media, 

so much so that many more silver men have appeared and have become a public nuisance, to the point that police are now arresting and fining them to discourage them from pestering people for money, I have to wonder if the human body being covered in silver paint, as they are, has any health related side effects?