By Brian Rokos
Press-Enterprise
MORENO, Calif. — Yes, that really was a 7-foot-tall Gingerbread Man — wearing sneakers — walking back and forth across Eucalyptus Avenue in Moreno Valley.
Yet the costumed deputy was invisible to most of the 13 motorists who were cited in a 50-minute span during a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department pedestrian decoy operation Thursday morning, Sept. 26.
The Sheriff’s Department had received complaints about drivers cutting off students as they crossed Eucalyptus at Running Deer Road and several times nearly striking the crossing guard. So Thursday morning at 8, five deputies on motorcycles arrived, along with Deputy Chris Gastinger, who put on the Gingerbread Man costume.
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