Cardboard Children Used To Slow Neighborhood Speeders
Homeowners Associations Calling To Buy Children
POSTED: Saturday, July 28, 2007
UPDATED: 7:02 am EDT July 30,
2007
A family in West Salem, Ohio, is using life-sized cardboard children placed near oncoming traffic to slow speeders in their neighborhood.
PHOTOS: Cardboard Children
Mike Wood and his wife said their homemade cutout children make them feel uneasy at times because they look so real but said they force motorists to slow down."First when (motorists) saw them, it scared them that the kids were so close to the road," Woods said. "And they thought why are they letting their kids play next to the road like that?"The Woods family house is on the fringe of town so many drivers have a tough time slowing down to 35 mph.Some motorists have stopped after realizing the children were not real."A man stopped here a couple of weeks ago and bought one because traffic is going by his house so fast," Wood said. "It had such an effect on him, he wanted to put one in his front yard to slow the traffic down going past his house."Wood said his initial idea to create the cardboard children was not to slow down speeders but to start selling the posters to their grandparents.Wood said he is now getting calls from police departments and neighborhood associations across the country.He is selling the cardboard kids for $60 each.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
PHOTOS: Cardboard Children Mike Wood and his wife said their homemade cutout children make them feel uneasy at times because they look so real but said they force motorists to slow down."First when (motorists) saw them, it scared them that the kids were so close to the road," Woods said. "And they thought why are they letting their kids play next to the road like that?"The Woods family house is on the fringe of town so many drivers have a tough time slowing down to 35 mph.Some motorists have stopped after realizing the children were not real."A man stopped here a couple of weeks ago and bought one because traffic is going by his house so fast," Wood said. "It had such an effect on him, he wanted to put one in his front yard to slow the traffic down going past his house."Wood said his initial idea to create the cardboard children was not to slow down speeders but to start selling the posters to their grandparents.Wood said he is now getting calls from police departments and neighborhood associations across the country.He is selling the cardboard kids for $60 each.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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