WTF Fun Fact – The Mayor, Mimes, and Bogota

When Antonous Mockus, a mathematician and philosopher, became mayor of Bogotá, he hired 420 mimes to improve both traffic and citizens’ behavior. The mimes would ridicule bad drivers and also mock pedestrians who didn’t follow crossing rules. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: Academic turns city into a social experiment – Harvard Gazette


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