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.
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