Scantily Clad Woman
Distributing Flyers
Cause Traffic Congestion
in La Uruca
With short skirts, tight
shorts, exposed
cleavages and with
suggestive poses, a
group of young women
distributing promotional
material are causing
traffic problems at the
radial La Uruca.
The women are hired to
distribute flyers to
motorists stopped at the
traffic lights, who are
easily distracted by the
suggestive movements.
Using pretty, scantily
clad women to distribute
flyers, sell lottery
tickets and merchandise
by the roadside is
nothing new.
The La Uruca location is
the same location where
some years back young
women would expose their
breasts to motorists for
¢1.000 colones. In that
situation authorities
were able to stop the
young women from
exposing themselves.
The girls place
themselves in mid
traffic, attracting the
attention of drivers who
slow down to get a
closer look, causing
traffic backlogs at the
intersection that is
already congested with
the amount of daily
traffic.
The girls are out early
in the morning and are
still in action by noon.
The viceministra de
Transportes, Viviana
Martín, says there is
nothing they can do to
stop the practice as
there is no law that can
obligate their withdrawl
or even be fine
notwithstanding that the
young women expose
themselves to being hit
by a vehicle or can
cause a traffic
accident.
Although officially she
cannot do anything,
Martín said that she
will co-ordinate efforts
with other authorities
to dialogue with the
women and persuade them
to not expose themselves
to the danger.
Martín added that in the
event that a driver were
to hit one of the women,
the driver could
possibly not be faulted
or held responsible as
it would be the fault of
the pedestrian crossing
the highway.
In one of the cases the
young woman is 17 years
of age and Martín is
asking the Patronato
Nacional de la Infancia
(PANI) - child welfare
agency - to intervene in
that case. Martín
assured that the Fuerza
Pública (police) and the
Policía Municipal de San
José will be asked to
intervene.
Although the La Uruca
radial is the focus of
attention of the
authorities, other
locations around San
José have also been a
target by marketers who
use sexy women to get
the attention of drivers
to promote their
merchandise or service.
The defunct lottery 21
de la suerte was one
promoter who used loud
music and scantily clad
women at major
intersections all over
San José to sell lottery
tickets. Along Avenida
Central and the other
pedestrian walkways in
the downtown core,
scantily clad women walk
up and down the Avenidas
distributing flyers, as
well as retailers who
post sexy female
employees at the front
door to attract
customers.
Elsa Garabito, who
identified herself in
charge of Multiservicios
La Macha, the company
that hired the women at
the La Uruca location,
says the form is very
effective and defended
that the traffic jams in
the area are the fault
of her girls.
The woman said that her
own daughter works
distributing flyers and
of the underage girl,
Garabito said that the
young girl has the
permission of the
parents to be there.
"They do not always
stand in the middle of
the road, what I tell
them is to stand at the
side of the road", said
Garabito. |
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