On my office wall hangs a poster, “Murphy’s Laws of Combat,” a list of items that most veterans (and many non-veterans) are familiar with. This poster has graced a wall near my desk in every office I have inhabited since I was a young Second Lieutenant. While these laws are many and varied, one of Murphy’s bits of wisdom has broad application in all manner of human endeavor: “If it’s stupid but works, it’s not stupid.”
Which brings us, unsurprisingly, to San Francisco. That city has among its myriad problems an issue of drivers speeding through marked crosswalks. To educate these crosswalk scofflaws about the presence of the walkways, San Francisco police officers are dressing up as chickens.
The San Francisco Police Department is dressing up in inflatable chicken costumes to catch drivers speeding past crosswalks in a new stunt.
SFGate reported Monday on San Francisco police Lt. Jonathan Ozol wearing the costume while walking down a crosswalk on Alemany Boulevard near the intersection of Rousseau Street. The idea, Capt. Amy Hurwitz explained, is for drivers to take notice and yield to pedestrians.
Unfortunately, some drivers still aren’t yielding to Ozol.
“I don’t want them to get run over,” Hurwitz said. “But the costume is so bright, it’s like, how can you miss it?” […]
— Read More: redstate.com
