Mime Your J-Walking

If you became

Mayor

of a city which had corrupt traffic cops

and a high fatality rate in traffic accidents,

what would you do to change the problem?

Replace the cops with mimes of course!

Aurelijus Rūtenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas

who went by the shorter name of

Antanas Mockus

became mayor of

Bogotá 

from 1995 to 1997

and again in 2001 to 2003.

Both times replacing traffic cops with mimes to mock j-walkers

and crazy drivers.

Under his leadership traffic deaths dropped by over 50%!

I guess people started

"Miming Their Own Business."

 Or they were afraid the

Mimes

might

"Mock-Us."

This is,

See What I Did There?

I Used Antanas's Last Name To Make The Terrible Pun

Mock-Us

Jim Hauenstein

And,

 

"It wasn't all fun and games for Antanas. Before he became Mayor of Bogota he was President of the National University of Colombia and one time when he was speaking before the student body they started booing him so he pulled down his pants and mooned them!"

 

I Like This Guy.

 

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