That's so "Canadian!"

from Yahoo.com...

Officials in West Vancouver, Canada, apparently aren't satisfied with the driver-slowing properties of traditional speed bumps. On Tuesday, the town unveiled a new way to persuade motorists to ease off the gas pedal: a 2-D image of a child playing, creating the illusion that the approaching driver will soon blast into a child.

According to Discover magazine, the pavement painting appears to rise up as the driver gets closer to it, reaching full 3-D realism at around 100 feet: "Its designers created the image to give drivers who travel at the street's recommended 18 miles per hour enough time to stop before hitting Pavement Patty -- acknowledging the spectacle before they continue to safely roll over her."

Seriously?!?  Pavement Patty?  Why can't they use a dog or something...a little kid?  Come on....