Pen-pincher mocked on Facebook

More than 5000 Czechs have signed up to a Facebook campaign to mail pens to Czech President Vaclav Klaus after a video of him sheepishly pocketing a pen during an official signing ceremony last week in Chile became widely popular on the internet.

Klaus says it is customary for leaders to keep pens after signing accords.

But the manner in which he sized up the pen - encrusted with semiprecious Chilean stones - and then sneakily slipped it into his pocket has earned him the ridicule of some of his countrymen.