No Easter Bunny for second pedestrian sting

[Liberal_in_LA]

I've had drivers blow past me WHILE I'm in the middle of the crosswalk or half way across a street. I'd stop for human or bunny



No Easter Bunny for second pedestrian sting

A car does not stop for a Glendale Police officer dressed in a rabbit costume crossing the street at Central and Garfield in Glendale on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The driver was pulled over for not yielding to a pedestrian. (Raul Roa/News-Press)


By Veronica Rocha
Published: Last Updated Thursday, April 1, 2010 9:29 PM PDT
SOUTH GLENDALE — Glendale police officers went forward with another pedestrian enforcement operation Thursday, a day after Councilman John Drayman took them to task for an earlier sting in which an officer dressed in a rabbit costume.

Glendale Police Officer Tom Broadway dressed in a pair of shorts and T-shirt, a far cry from the furry Easter costume that he sported a day earlier. On Thursday, he walked back and forth at two crosswalks, one lighted and marked, the other not. All the while officers cited drivers who failed to yield, while giving them a rundown of pedestrian safety rules.

The operation was less of a spectacle than the full-sized bunny outfit deployed Wednesday, which turned heads and invited the wrath of Drayman, who called the decoy “breathtakingly dangerous” and a poor use of city resources.

“I am happy to hear that they modified the sting and agreed that the idea of a giant rabbit — a total anomaly out in the roadway — is not exactly training our drivers to learn really anything,” he said Thursday.

http://www.glendalenewspress.com/articles/2010/04/02/publicsafety/gnp-operation040210.art.txt

[rfranklin]

1. It's okay to run over bunnies?

What's next, Santa Claus?

[HereSince1628]

3. happens to skunks and armadillos all the time, what's another bunny?

Just kidding. :evilgrin:

[HereSince1628]

4. Now if they'd have dressed up like a street walker they could ticketed

people who didn't stop and a number of the ones who did.

[HopeHoops]

2. I stop for pedestrians trying to cross even if they are NOT in a cross walk.

What the fuck is up with people. Do they really think their narrow little worlds are that much more important than the rest of the planet? I wonder if they collect statistics on how many of the "failure to stop" citations were for cars with McCain/Palin stickers on them.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Nice to see them busting actual assholes for a change.

The bunny suit is a nice touch.