© Bay News 9Someone turned a bridge walkway in Madeira Beach into a billboard of sorts early Monday with these cardboard cutouts.
Four cardboard cutouts resembling the classic evolution of man but ending with an upright human pointing a handgun. The cardboard cutouts were affixed to a pedestrian bridge over Bay Pines Boulevard at Duhme Road, connecting to Madeira Beach Fundamental School.
It gave some motorists and passers-by pause Monday morning, and at least one person called the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. A deputy later removed the life-sized cutouts and disposed of them, spokesman Sgt. Tom Nestor said.
"There was nothing written on them, no names attached," he said. "No sayings, no explanation."
So who spent the time cutting out the figures, climbing up to the walkway and displaying them in such a public way? And what was the artist trying to tell us?
"I don't know what it was supposed to suggest," Nestor said.
Deputies aren't exactly launching an investigation, he said. Nothing was damaged, and it doesn't appear to be an ongoing thing. But you can't just post whatever you want on a public right of way, he said.
"Unless someone wants to call us and give us a name, there's really not much we'll do," Nestor said.
And even if deputies identify the artist, Nestor wasn't sure what the charge would be. "They'd probably just call the person and ask, 'What was this all about?' "
Looks to me like, the long hard difficult journey of mans evolution only to kill each other of at the end of it. I rather like it and it should have been left alone.