Greenlake children?
I was on the bus on Saturday, heading to (and then from) Greenwood, and scattered all around Greenlake there seemed to be cardboard cutouts of children. It looked like they were holding signs that said something, and on the back of them was more writing, but I was not going to get off the bus just to see what they were. They didn’t appear to be fixed in place; or anyway, I watched a strong gust of wind knock a couple of them over.
I figured that if anyone would know what they were it would be you, our brilliant and lovely Metroblogging Seattle readers. Any ideas?
Update: Aaron O. solves the mystery–they’re for Seattle Family Services’ Don’t Just Look Away campaign, which will put hundreds of lifesize cutouts of children around Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, and elsewhere in King County. They’ll be holding signs that say things like, “We live in a car” and “We had to leave because my daddy hit my mommy.”
They’re to remind fast drivers to slow down. Perhaps they might be a little more likely to slow down if there is a life size cutout of a kid in the street. I think the signs say “Slow Down” or something of the like. It was on the news…
If you have to stop and get out to read the signs, not a very effective tactic I’d say.
But maybe the threat of the wind blowing the cutouts into the street might slow someone down. ;)
It was the Seattle Family Services Don’t Just Look Away campaign. The cutouts were of cute, sad looking kids that were holding signs saying things like “We had to leave because my daddy hit my mommy. Don’t just look away.” They were all around the lake. I felt sufficiently guilty by the time I finished my run so I guess it was effective.