daisybean
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I saw this and for some reason thought of this place
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...20020903/ap_on_fe_st/lithuania_cardboard_cops
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Lithuania this week launched a novel program to deal with a shortage of traffic police: It's cut new ones out of cardboard and propped them up on the side of streets to scare motorists into slowing down.
About 300 of the cardboard cops have been placed at road crossings near 90 schools in Vilnius, the capital of this former Soviet Baltic republic, a spokeswoman for the municipality, Rasa Razgaitis, said Tuesday.
She said the program coincides with the start of school in the nation of 3.5 million people. The life-sized replicas, painted turquoise green of actual Lithuanian police uniforms, are expected to stay in service for several months.
It's the first project of its kind in the former Soviet Baltic states, which include Latvia and Estonia.
