Memorial Stencil Project
Cars and trucks not only destroy our environment, but they can
destroy each of us instantly!
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
Under New York State law, if you use a gun or a knife to kill
someone it's a crime. But if you kill someone with a car, as long as
you're not drinking, it's perfectly legal. In most cases, you'll get
away scot-free without even the bother of a traffic ticket.
While that may be perfectly acceptable here, murder-by-car is not
legitimate everywhere. In Amsterdam, it is a crime to hit a
pedestrian, and the driver's license is revoked -- permanently.
As part of its ongoing efforts to raise people's awareness and
reduce the number of victims, TIME'S UP! has been at the forefront
of traffic-calming events and memorials to slain pedestrians.
TIME'S UP! volunteers were involved from the beginning in the
New York City memorial project, marking the place where a person
was killed by spray-painting a life-sized stencil of a human body
on the asphalt road.
News of this bold idea has spread far and wide, and the memorial
campaign has now been adopted by groups and individuals around the
world.
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