Deputy Dressed as Grinch Gives Onions to Speeding Drivers

A Maryland motorist (L) accepts an onion instead of a traffic citation from Monroe County Sheriff's Office Colonel Lou Caputo (R), costumed as the Grinch, in Marathon, Fla., on Dec. 13, 2022. Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP

MARATHON, Fla.—Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch.

Col. Lou Caputo, a 37-year veteran of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office who conjured up the concept more than 20 years ago, was back on the streets on Dec. 13.