Let me explain... the Moreno Valley, CA, police department had received a lot of complaints about drivers not yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks. In CA, like most states, that's a big no-no, it'll cost money and points, if you have a points program.
Also this is the time of year that public officials try to instill a back to school mindset in the populace.
So here comes the
Pedestrian Decoy Program, having a nice policeman use the crosswalk to see if drivers obey the law.
Some drivers claimed they never saw the nice policeman, plus concern for the safety of the decoy, produced the decision to dress him as a traffic cone, a walking (probably talking, at least muttering) giant florescent traffic cone.
Some drivers still resisted yielding. Maybe fearful of being cone-jacked, or sexually molested if they stopped.
Hmm, does that mean people who stopped were hoping to be sexually molested... but I digress.
Anyway, the drivers who did not yield to the decoy, aka, walking giant florescent traffic cone, aka, the nice policeman, regretted it, because five of the nice policeman's friends just happen to be in the neighborhood.
The nice policeman's five friends also happened to be riding motorcycles... and wearing guns.
Seeing the nice policeman disrespected made the five friends who happened to be in the neighborhood, riding motorcycles, and wearing guns, angry.
You wouldn't like the five friends who happened to be in the neighborhood, riding motorcycles, and wearing guns, when they're angry.
The drivers who disrespected the nice policeman, with the five friends who happened to be in the neighborhood, riding motorcycles, and wearing guns, sure didn't.