Let’s say that you’re Canadian and a couple of your pals have come over to visit, bringing with them a deego of beasters to smoke you oot with.  You’re feasting on some poutine, but the one thing that they didn’t bring was the booze.  What the fuck is that aboot?!  You could be getting pissed.  You should jersey these hosers for not grabbing a couple of forty pounders or a two-four before coming over.  You collect some loonies from these fools and head out to pick up some alcohol.  The store is only a few clicks away, so you put your runners to the metal and rock out to the radio jams until your toque falls off.  “Sheena is A Punk Rocker” by the Ramones is blasting through the stereo of your red semi truck and you’re so into it that you don’t notice the little boy running through a meadow and chasing his kite into the middle of the street.  Oh shit!  You try to react, but you can’t deke the kid until its too late!  “…. what?  Nothing happened?  Oh beauty!  It’s just an illusion, drawn out confusion style like that guy with all the 3-dimensional chalk images, of internet fame.“  Whew!  That’s a relief, but it’s still kind of a fucked up hoax.  “No fair… no fair…”

No.. but, seriously… Canada has started a campaign to help prevent reckless driving and the pedestrian casualties that they can be responsible for.  To “help” in making such reductions in tragedy a reality, an illusion of a young child has been placed in the road to frighten the shit out of people bring awareness.  There’s a claim that it’s been “carefully tested“, but it still seems a little questionable and like it may actually have the potential to create more damage than it prevents.

Here’s are the details accompanying it’s promotion: Read the rest of this entry →