Benedetto Bufalino, who is French and an artist, is known for his “visually humorous transformations of consumable cultural objects,” designboom says. His latest project, “La Voiture de Police Poulailler,” is a 1970s police car transformed into a chicken coop. It’s a clever bit of upcycling, and according to Treehugger, a clever bit of punning as well:
It’s also a bit of word play on the fact that in the francophone world, the police are sometimes colloquially referred to as “chickens” (similar to the anglophone reference of police as “pigs”).
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The chickens don’t seem empowered to arrest anyone:
But perhaps they’re just patrolling the area for now.
