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News Credits: 1 · by **God Optimus Prime** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:27 am

BELLEVUE, Wash. – You forgot to buckle up, dummy! A commuter who put a homemade dummy in the passenger seat to sneak into the car pool lane was caught Wednesday near Seattle. But it wasn't because a cop realized the passenger was fake. Instead, the State Patrol trooper noticed the dangling belt buckle on the passenger side and suspected a seat belt violation.

Patrol spokeswoman Christina Martin told The Herald of Everett that the driver acknowledged trying to beat traffic by using the HOV lane.

He created his passenger by draping a rain jacket over plastic piping, topping it off with a Halloween mask of Gandalf, the "Lord of the Rings" wizard, a beard and a baseball cap.
The trooper issued a $124 ticket and confiscated the dummy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_ ... _hov_dummy

hahahahaha

News Credits: 3 · by **Archanubis** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:41 am

Another for the "stupid" file.

News Credits: 38 · by **TheMuffin** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:02 pm

I dunno. I've always wondered if that would work.

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:30 pm

TheMuffin wrote:I dunno. I've always wondered if that would work.

I think almost every sitcom ever created has done it at least once.

News Credits: 1 · by **TRANS+CRAZY** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:06 pm

LOL!

by **Wheelimus Prime** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:39 pm

this just made my day ( which consisted of watching AVP, going to Verizon, and playing mechquest :-?

)

News Credits: 7 · by **Roadbuster** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:43 pm

Wow. Guess the real dummy in the car isn't the man-made one.

by **Halo** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:17 pm

Truefact: I've driven in the HOV lane going to the DC Area with 2 buckled up My Size Barbies.

News Credits: 1 · by **Scatterlung** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:33 pm

In the event of accidents, it's customary for emergency services to tend to the silent victims before the ones screaming in pain.

Who would they have rushed to first? The idiot behind the wheel with a broken nose or the passenger draped over the guard rail across the road?

That woulda taught him.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:00 pm

Not the first time this has been done, not the last.

With how backed up the I-5 gets at times, I'm surprised there isn't a story like this once a week out of the Seattle area.

by **travicon** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:07 pm

haha i think this story is so funny because: a. the gandalf mask b. it wasnt the dummy itself that got the guy pulled over it was the fact that he forgot to buckel it up!