Villagers make scarecrow policeman to slow traffic
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5243271/Villagers-use-scarecrow-policeman-to-slow-tra...
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Villagers who were sick of drivers speeding through down their roads in Crosby-on-Eden in Cumbria have thought up a novel idea to get people slowing down - a scarecrow policeman.
Armed with a plastic bottle for a speed camera and a big pink face with doodled features, the fake policeman strategy appears to have actually worked, according to its maker Sandra McKeane, who says "It has been amazing to see them all slowing down thinking it's a real policeman."
Of course, now the Telegraph's reported on it, half of middle England are going to know it's a fake and whizz by carefree but it was a lovely idea while it lasted.
Armed with a plastic bottle for a speed camera and a big pink face with doodled features, the fake policeman strategy appears to have actually worked, according to its maker Sandra McKeane, who says "It has been amazing to see them all slowing down thinking it's a real policeman."
Of course, now the Telegraph's reported on it, half of middle England are going to know it's a fake and whizz by carefree but it was a lovely idea while it lasted.
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Slick
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I get scared of those things
- 3 years ago
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Slick
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Mcellie
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wonder how long till it's stolen.
- 3 years ago
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Mcellie
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mattbrawn
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I can just see the next episode of Blue Peter ~ "how to make your very own speed camera out of a washing up liquid bottle, two cereal boxes and a margarine tub lid.
- 3 years ago
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mattbrawn
