Does police emblem hide image of a pig?
Michael K McIntyre, Plain Dealer Columnist Copyright 2006 Plain Dealer Publishing Co. Tipoff If a Cleveland police cruiser rolls past and you shout, “Hey Pig,” you will soon be wearing a pair of silver bracelets, courtesy of the men in blue. But you would have a defense: “I wasn’t talking about you, officer. I’m talking about the car!” Have you ever noticed it? The emblem on the side of Cleveland police cruisers carries the visage of a pig. Greg Reese, a former Cleveland Heights resident who moved last year to Madison, Wis., immortalized the “subliminal pig” in a short movie – a music video really – he made for an Independent Film Channel Internet contest. Best films get on the cable network. Reese’s film is rated in the middle of the pack of about 600 films, but the network told him it wants to use the short at the Sundance Film Festival to advertise its Web site, medialab.ifc.com. Reese, who said a friend pointed out the pig to him last year, surmised in the film that a pot-smoking p
