Shane McMahon's Ass
12-14-2009, 07:55 AM
WOULDN'T we love to see traffic cop Tony Lepore on the congested streets of Sydney in peak-hour.
For the 62-year-old from Rhode Island, New England, has a dance routine that would take your mind off the inadequacies of the RTA as you're stuck in traffic.
Lepore has taken the Internet by storm after turning his road duties into a spectacularly choreographed artform.
He spins on his heels, drops to his knees, falls back on his hands and springs back upright.
Blowing his whistle rhythmically, he points his white-gloved fingers frantically from side to side.
Lepore was inspired by an old set-up on TV classic Candid Camera, Mr Lepore began adding fancy footwork and flamboyant arm movements to his traffic direction.
"I saw Candid Camera and I thought. 'Gee, maybe tomorrow I'm going to try a couple of spins and hand movements ... But I didn't know if my bosses were going to like it," he said.
However, with positive feedback from amused motorists, police chiefs allowed him to carry on.
"I've had people come down and film me and say, 'You're really directing traffic,'" he told local television show The Rhode Show.
The Vietnam veteran has had his share of serious police work, spending nine years on night duty in Providence and being decorated for valour in the line of duty.
But a transfer to day duty and directing traffic left him bored, he says.
Three years after inventing his trademark dance routine, Mr Lepore retired and went into catering with his brother, but in 1992 a local newspaper interviewed him for a "Whatever happened to" feature.
Soon he was invited by the mayor to reprise his act specially for the Christmas season - and he's still doing it today.
Dailytelegraph.com.au
For the 62-year-old from Rhode Island, New England, has a dance routine that would take your mind off the inadequacies of the RTA as you're stuck in traffic.
Lepore has taken the Internet by storm after turning his road duties into a spectacularly choreographed artform.
He spins on his heels, drops to his knees, falls back on his hands and springs back upright.
Blowing his whistle rhythmically, he points his white-gloved fingers frantically from side to side.
Lepore was inspired by an old set-up on TV classic Candid Camera, Mr Lepore began adding fancy footwork and flamboyant arm movements to his traffic direction.
"I saw Candid Camera and I thought. 'Gee, maybe tomorrow I'm going to try a couple of spins and hand movements ... But I didn't know if my bosses were going to like it," he said.
However, with positive feedback from amused motorists, police chiefs allowed him to carry on.
"I've had people come down and film me and say, 'You're really directing traffic,'" he told local television show The Rhode Show.
The Vietnam veteran has had his share of serious police work, spending nine years on night duty in Providence and being decorated for valour in the line of duty.
But a transfer to day duty and directing traffic left him bored, he says.
Three years after inventing his trademark dance routine, Mr Lepore retired and went into catering with his brother, but in 1992 a local newspaper interviewed him for a "Whatever happened to" feature.
Soon he was invited by the mayor to reprise his act specially for the Christmas season - and he's still doing it today.
Dailytelegraph.com.au