Interurban People 1, Drunk People 0
In her book, The Art People Love, on the art work of Richard Beyer, Margaret Beyer (his late wife) related a police blotter item that ran, circa 1979, in the (now defunct) Ballard Outlook newspaper.
In it, witnesses reported to police that a ‘tipsy’ man approached what appeared – to him – to be four men, and a woman carrying a child. He argued with them, and then began beating on them. Police arrived to find the man out cold, lying on the pavement, his knuckles bleeding. The statues, Beyer’s famous People Waiting For The Interurban, heeded the warning officers gave them, ‘You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.”
For more on the statues, and Beyer’s other works, order a copy of The Art People Love by Margaret Beyer through your independent bookseller, including Santoro Books.