Posted on 06/26/2005 5:54:37 PM PDT by QwertyKPH
HORSEHEADS, N.Y. Two merchants in the Southern Tier who tried to slow motorists by putting a headless mannequin in a crosswalk have run afoul of the police.
Tim King, co-owner of Horseheads MercanTile, and David Quinn, owner of Village Vacuum, put the standing mannequin in the crosswalk in Hanover Square.
Horseheads Village Police Chief Dave Kole says the merchants are lucky nobody got hurt. The men were charged with disorderly conduct. The mannequin was removed.
The mannequin had a sign taped to its chest that said: "Don't be a dummy. Please stop."
King and Quinn told the Elmira Star-Gazette they did not know how they would plead.
Though officials spent nearly 1 (m) million dollars on a 2002 project to alleviate accidents in the five-way intersection _ where about 20-thousand vehicles pass daily, merchants say pedestrian safety is an ongoing issue.
Village signs in some crosswalks tell motorists to yield.
That's Horsehead(s)! Ah, my hometown. They tried traffic lights a generation ago, caused more problems than it solved. We used to call this intersection Hangover Square, a play on Hanover Square.
The middle of nowhere, Horseheads. Home of Schweizer Aircraft which makes decent training helicopters (and which is now also Sikorsky's Hawk Werks skunkworks).
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Headless in Horseheads
A Sleepless in Seattle sequel directed by George Romero?
The mannequin was outside the local delicatessen, thus becoming a corpseless deli-ecti. The Keystone Kosher Cops are in a real pickle here and they are grilling all Hebrew National dogs in the area. Any hopes of the Chief of Police of becoming a future mayorrnaise are being quickly submarined.
Low and Ardor?
I'm sure the cops cited her for violating some obscure statue, but maybe with some intensive mannequin rehab, she might get ahead.
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