Creepy Doll Doesn't Trick Washington Trooper

Oct. 29, 2015
A motorist on Interstate 5 near Tacoma had a doll wearing a disturbing Halloween mask in the passenger seat while driving in the HOV lane.

TACOMA, Washington -- Commuters have tried some unusual things to sidestep the carpool lane's two or more rule. 

Highway patrol officers have pulled over HOV lane violators with peculiar choices for passengers: a mannequin, a cutout of Dos Equis' World's Most Interesting Man, astuffed animal, paperwork. In 2010, a Southern California woman drove around witha corpse for months. It's not clear whether she ever used it to drive in the carpool lane.

But, with Halloween around the corner, a man driving northbound on Interstate 5 near Tacoma was allegedly in the spirit of the season: Buckled up in his passenger seat was a doll wearing a disturbing Halloween mask, says Washington State Patrol Trooper Guy Gill, who tweeted a picture of the carpool violator's ghoulish passenger. 

The unidentified man was given a $136 ticket for driving in the carpool lane solo.  

"We gave him a break for not having a car seat," Gill tweeted at local TV station KREM2.

Copyright 2015 The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.

Tribune News Service

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