Fake Brad Pitts used to slow speeders
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Brad Pitt is accustomed to stopping passersby in their tracks. The Hollywood heartthrob's next job is slowing traffic in Siberia — or so Russian traffic police hope.
A Russian newspaper reports that cardboard cutouts of Pitt dressed as a traffic cop have been placed by the most dangerous intersections in the city of Omsk.
It's the latest move by authorities in their endless battle against speeding. Traffic accidents in Russia are among the highest in Europe.
The campaign seems to be working. Omsk officials say accidents are down as star-struck drivers ease off the gas to gaze at the unusual image.
The paper, Argumenty i Fakty, quotes Dmitry Ziryanov, a local official who came up with the idea as saying Pitt is "kind of like a colleague for us."
Brad Pitt stops traffic eh? That reminds me of a story from some of my zany Odessa brethren. One time they blocked traffic off on a major road in O-Town with road barriers but it wasn't funny enough b/c the cars just went around. So to spice it up the put an Alan Jackson cardboard cutout beside the barrier. It was a hoot until some guy hit Alan and then jumped out of the car screaming because he thought he killed some padestrian. Oh, teen shenanigans.
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