WAZE For When You're Going Around Iran In A Burka That's A Little Too Short
Here in Los Angeles, some of us avoid traffic the social media way -- with directions around where the traffic's heavy with the fab app WAZE.

Well, in Iran, young, fashion conscious Iranians are avoiding the morality police the same way.

The morality cops are known in Persian as "Ershad" or guidance.

On the BBC, there's news of an app, "Gershad" -- probably meaning get around Ershad instead of facing them -- allowing users to do just that.

It will "will alert users to checkpoints and help them to avoid them by choosing a different route":

In a statement on their web page the app's developers explain their motives in this way: "Why do we have to be humiliated for our most obvious right which is the right to wear what we want? Social media networks and websites are full of footage and photos of innocent women who have been beaten up and dragged on the ground by the Ershad patrol agents."

"Police need to provide security for the citizens not to turn into a factor for fear. A while ago, angry with such unreasonable oppressions, we looked for a solution to find a practical way to resist the volume of injustices peacefully with low risk level, to restore part of our freedom."

...Just exactly what amounts to immoral behaviour, can be widely open to the interpretation of the Ershad agent on the spot. So buying your clothes and or makeup from authorised shops, won't necessarily keep you out of trouble. If an Ershad agent sees the combination unfit according the Sharia code of conduct, you can still end up being warned or even prosecuted.

Also, if you're caught walking or riding with your opposite sex friend, you still could end up being stopped, questioned and prosecuted by Ershad because that's another violation of Islamic code of conduct.

Sharia Law -- it's what's (having you) for dinner.

Just one more way to remind you not to take living under the Constitution for granted.