Cardboard children used to slow drivers
 

Fed up Ohio residents are resorting to scaring drivers into going slowly using cardboard cut outs of children.

The (mildly disturbing) cut outs are placed near the edge of the road so that passing drivers will see them and slow down.

Mike Wood, their creator, said: "First when [motorists] saw them, it scared them that the kids were so close to the road, and they thought why are they letting their kids play next to the road like that?"

According to a local news network (Local 6, who broke the story), Wood had originally planned to make cut outs of children to sell to their grand parents at $60 a pop.

One driver, after realising that the child was fake, stopped an asked Wood if he could buy one as his road was also very busy.

Wood is currently receiving calls from police departments and neighbourhood associations from all over America regarding his army of cardboard tots.

Source: Jaopnik

Pics?

pics on the link-

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/defa...?storyId=16593

Nothing new, they already make them over here, but they're made of wood and VERY badly painted (don't exactly look like humans, even from far away) lol

Now that they've been outed, their plan has just failed.