Wednesday, February 18, 2009
News Pink flamingos battle crime
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Grassroots, community-based crime-fighting is the de rigeur cause in Atlanta these days, and rightfully so.
Concerned city dwellers, including armed robbery victim Kyle Keyser, are banding together to try to reverse a disarming spike in brazen crimes — and they're doing so in BIG numbers. Keyser's Facebook group, Atlantans Together Against Crime and Cutbacks, has more than 6,000 members. Whoa.
Another grassroots group, Pink Flamingos Against Crime (its founding members include CL staffer Jason Hatcher, who recently witnessed a scary crime on his street), is urging intowners to plant plastic birds in their yards as an act of civil disobedience.
The birds are intended to send a message to folks like Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and Police Chief Richard Pennington that citizens are pissed about increasing crime rates and peeved about police-force cutbacks.
The group will be hawking pink flamingos outside Joe's Coffee in East Atlanta, 510 Flat Shoals Ave., from 5-8 p.m. tonight.
(Photo by Johnny Hollywood)
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