Stanislaus County sheriff’s deputies went undercover last week in Riverbank and Patterson to keep pedestrians safe and teach drivers a lesson. In this case, though, undercover couldn’t have been more in-your-face.
It went like this: A deputy dressed as a giant orange traffic cone would enter a crosswalk when oncoming drivers had ample time to stop. Those drivers who failed to yield quickly found motorcycle deputies pulling them over.
Over two days of enforcement, one in each city, deputies cited 67 drivers for pedestrian violations and made two DUI arrests…