Friday Funny: Homemade Crosswalk Lands Man In Jail
A grad student in Muncie, Indiana has taken citizen involvement in traffic calming to a whole new level. He was jailed 10 hours for painting a crosswalk near his home. Now free from jail, he plans to complete the three other crosswalks.
"Whitney Stump didn't like watching drivers ignore the stop signs at the intersection outside his home, so he asked the city to paint crosswalks there.
When the city said no, he made one himself. And the city wasn't appreciative.
Stump, a 27-year-old Ball State University graduate student and father, says he was arrested once on a charge of criminal mischief for creating the crosswalk at the intersection of Dicks and North streets. He was arrested a second time when he went back to touch up the paint."
"The city hasn't covered up the crosswalk. Stump said he intends to paint crosswalks on the intersection's other three spokes."
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Cool, I thought about doing the same.
But I live in Japan, so I'd get deported for sure.