We Too Can be Fooled

With rising fuel price even Nakamora, a speedy driving super enthusiast, has to suppress his urge to floor the accelerator pedal. No, it is just too expensive.
It is one good outcome of the increase in the price of oil. He remembered that he used to have to train his eyes hard on life-size cardboard cut-out of traffic policeman and policewoman, normally placed by the roadside. He wanted to ascertain if it was real or dummy. The difference between the two is like the difference between the pleasure of speed driving and the pain of paying the fine. The dummy law enforcers are supposed to scare motorists that they are being waited upon, told that they exceeded the speed limit, and presented with a non-reusable speeding ticket. Non-reusable since if down the road they were caught again speeding, a new ticket will be issued. The cut-out looked so real and prompted quite a number of motorists to slow down. It works.
Nakamora thought of the 'orang-orangan' (scare-crow?) used to scare birds away from padi fields. It works. It manages to keep birds away. They are fooled. Well. It seems that we too can be fooled.