Weird fake car ploy for Oslo parking
When Aussie drivers see men clad in lycra mixing it with the traffic, they're usually reviled as pesky cyclists getting in the way of the cars. But in Oslo, Norway, these four lycra-loving superheroes are helping the drivers find parking spaces in the city's crowded CBD.
Carrying a cardboard car, the team parades through the streets finding vacant parking spots and squatting in them -- literally -- until a car comes along, and is waved in (often with a bit of bumper-spotting help).
We're not sure how them sitting in the space helps the next car that comes along, which would have jumped in there anyway -- unless the team is being selective about which vehicles they choose to endow with the precious spot.
The stunt has been set up by the Oslo city authorities to help relieve some of the parking stress in the inner city on weekends, and if it doesn't do that it will at least give some drivers a bit of a laugh.
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