Posted on 06/11/2009 10:13:13 AM PDT by JoeProBono
MOSCOW - Brad Pitt is accustomed to stopping passersby in their tracks. The Hollywood heartthrob's next job is slowing traffic in Siberia , or so Russian traffic police hope.
A Russian newspaper reports that cardboard cutouts of Pitt dressed as a traffic cop have been placed by the most dangerous intersections in the city of Omsk.
It's the latest move by authorities in their endless battle against speeding. Traffic accidents in Russia are among the highest in Europe.
The campaign seems to be working. Omsk officials say accidents are down as star-struck drivers ease off the gas to gaze at the unusual image.
The paper, Argumenty i Fakty, quotes Dmitry Ziryanov, a local official who came up with the idea as saying Pitt is "kind of like a colleague for us."
Uhm... why Brad Pitt? Is he the most respected man in Russia or what? Why no cardboard Putins? Also are they sure that the cardboard Pitts won’t be just run over?
Did he adopt some Russian kids?
I gotta hand it to ya JPB...you certainly find the good ones!
What a coincidence!! Angelina Jolie MARRIED a cardboard cutout of Pitt who, as it turns out, is a cardboard cutout of himself!!!
Wow, small world!!!
ping
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