The city of Chicago held a contest for area youth to draw the new sticker to be displayed on Police, Fire and Paramedic vehicles. 15-year-old Herbert Pulgar's design won:
Beautiful, right? Unity, togetherness, heroes.
Then a blogger named Detective Shaved Longcock (yes, that's right) suggested the design echoed the signs of notorious street gang the Maniac Latin Disciples.
On its own, the sticker design doesn't really reveal much. The heart is a symbol of the gang... but its also a heart. The hands reaching up are twisted into a shape that could, if viewed the right way, resemble the pitchfork sign used by the gang.
But most damning is the background information Detective Longcock (yes, again) uncovered. Digging into the Facebook pages of Herbert and his family, he unearthed photos of blunt-smoking, bandana-wearing, gun-toting and well, gang-sign-flashing.
Now the city is switching designs to avoid any resemblance to things related to gang activity:
Uh... wait a minute...
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| Those guys on the right look familiar... |
Um... yeah.
What was third place? The Chicago police, fire and paramedics depicted as the three little pigs?
This is why you don't have kids draw things.
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