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A cardboard cutout of a police officer holding a radar gun is travelling around different areas of Lake Country to make drivers jump in their seat and hit the brakes.
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The cutout is nomadic, said Facebook users, citing theysa国际传媒檝e seen the officer at multiple locations.
sa国际传媒淭hey have had those for most of the school year, usually in a school zone and they move around to catch people off guard,sa国际传媒� wrote Amanda Ulliac.
Most of the commenting-cohort agreed the cutout is working and have noticed surrounding drivers slowing down, assumably once theysa国际传媒檝e noticed the scarecrow.
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Aaron Johnson even put forth a possible conspiracy theory: sa国际传媒淭hey will let us get used to seeing it then put a real laser gun cop behind it.sa国际传媒�
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The origins of cut-out police in Canada, as far as Cpl. Michael McLaughlin knows, took place in Coquitlam when his detachment spawned Const. Scarecrow in September 2018.
During the unveiling, McLaughlin said if the project saw success, other B.C. RCMP detachments would adopt the project.
This must have been the case, seeing as Lake Country has one as well as nearby Kelowna.
The only other disapproval from the commenters seemed to be one resident who supposedly tried to strike a conversation with the officer.
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