"A town in Buckinghamshire, England, has repositioned road barriers made to look like children after a resident said they were too creepy. The toddler-sized safety posts were designed to be more attention-grabbing than the standard poles, and are."
Link: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/09/british-road-barriers-modeled.html
In which we consider the bollard; often simple, sometimes artful, and occasionally astounding. [This is a parody site, filled with made-up things and untruths. Trust none of it, although I think most of the links to other sites are legitimate.]