Someone placed a mannequin alongside a busy road near Ballston this morning.
The female mannequin was wearing a knit hat, a t-shirt and a sign about being a “DoD based experiment,” a tipster told ARLnow. It was placed at the corner of N. Wakefield Street and N. Carlin Springs Road.
The sign on it referenced Secure Planet, a Ballston-based biometrics and facial recognition technology company. A phone number printed on the sign rings through to a company executive, though it was not answered when an ARLnow.com reporter called Friday afternoon.
At some point, someone placed another typed sign on the mannequin, criticizing the company for alleged privacy violations.
The mannequin, signs and all, appears to have been moved just before the end of the morning rush hour.
“Very bizarre,” the tipster concluded.
Update at 6:30 p.m. — The person who put the second sign on the mannequin discussed it on Twitter yesterday.
https://twitter.com/blacknell/status/986960021979267072
https://twitter.com/Blacknell/status/986961698648141824
https://twitter.com/Blacknell/status/987311278275383297
