Cardboard Police car

[Lou Girardin]

Jeez, imagine a cardboard scummy. Complete with cutout tassels.
And a papier mache laser gun.

[Waylander]

Jeez, imagine a cardboard scummy. Complete with cutout tassels.
And a papier mache laser gun.

All this time I thought he just looked like that...

[kro]

Note the number plate.... I think that may be the diff between impersonation, and a legal deterrant.

[scumdog]

They could have a cardboard cut out of a car crash - that would get the rubber-neckers to slow to a crawl...

And somebody would get run over by a rubber-necker looking at the 'wreckage'

[Komuter]

Sweet, much better than wasting a cop sitting at the side of the road

Yeah, then maybe the buggers can catch the bugger that tried getting into my Harley GN250 shed the night after I bought it....

[Fat Tony]

Cardboard? If that was over here, it'd be torched within a day.

[oldrider]

I wonder if you can get a cardboard cut out of a Foreman or something, so that the road gang will stay on the job and have a real reason for having to slow down at road works!

Half the time you go through them nothing is happening because there is nobody there and they seem to be making them longer and longer all the time!

Case in point is the one at Nevis bluff, it goes on and on for bloody miles. Pissed off, John.

[elle-f]

I had to laugh because when i first read this i thought about the rain and then the cost - something like $1000 and then i thought........how stupid actually advertising this THEN they had them on the news last night and like Kro, i noticed the numberplace "POLICE" and THEN........they had this stupid cop going on about how today it might be cardboard but tomorrow it might be the real thing......HELLO!!

[Karma]

Staff were often injured by gravel sent flying when people drove too fast through roadworks

Wouldn't it be nice if they didn't leave shit all over the road, then they wouldn't have to worry about being hit with it, after all, it dings my bike!

One motorist came down from a speed of 73kmh to 38kmh when they saw the cutout, and many others hurriedly put their seatbelts on

I'd say this was more dangerous than going too fast though the roadworks.

[spudchucka]

Jeez, imagine a cardboard scummy. Complete with cutout tassels.
And a papier mache laser gun.

Gets you excited doens'nt it!

[The Pastor]

Doesnt carbord burn?

[Guitana]

At least you will stand a better chance of outrunning this copper if you're speeding.

[Quartermile]

You watch next thing the bastards will be putting speed camera's behind them or fake emmiters that set off radar detectors.

[ceebie13]

Cardboard? If that was over here, it'd be torched within a day.

Well, didn't they already do that over there Tony? I seem to remember actual size side-view cardboard jam butties placed on motorway overbridges. Or was that idea scrubbed and the project folded? The idea worked on paper but not in practice.

[ceebie13]

You watch next thing the bastards will be putting speed camera's behind them or fake emmiters that set off radar detectors.

Well funny you should say that... some enterprising anti-speeding bloke living in my Dad's sleepy Oxfordshire village actually built a life-size replica of a speed camera and positioned it just inside his garden perimeter which was side on to the road through the village. Top marks for detailed accuracy and I for one slowed up on first seeing it...but close inspection gave the game away and i would imagine like me, most (local) people simply got used to it and ignored it. It was probably a talking point in the village pub for a while though.