Cardboard 'Most Interesting Man' fails as carpool-lane ruse

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 3/24/15

[Kartographer]

A Washington State Patrol trooper says it's by far the best carpool scam he's seen, but it didn't work.

[Kartographer]

Channeling the cardboard cutout, the State Patrol tweeted: "I don't always violate the HOV lane law ... but when I do, I get a $124 ticket."

[Secret Agent Man]

3d texture map the face onto a mannequin wearing a suit. Good to go.

[Nevadan]

Funny! He might have gotten away with it if he had chosen someone less well known. Putting “The Most Interesting Man” in the front seat invited a second look, and in this case, a ticket.

[Truth29]

I recall a case where a hearse driver in the DC area tried to meet the HOV requirements by counting a corpse. He got cited, went to court and lost.

[Flick Lives]

When the trooper stopped the car, he discovered the "passenger" was a cardboard cutout of the actor who portrays "The Most Interesting Man in the World" in Dos Equis beer ads. The driver's response? "He's my best friend."

That is both funny and sad.

[dainbramaged]

He bowls overhand.

[kiryandil]

I'll ride with this guy:

[hoagy62]

There was a case here in Washington a couple years back where a woman got into an accident while in the HOV lane. The WSP trooper found that she had a full-size mannequin in the passenger seat, dressed from the waist up. She was cited for improper use of the HOV lane. She took it to court. She lost.

[Kartographer]

He doesn’t use a ball when he bowls the pins fall down on their own over whelmed by his presence.

[Veggie Todd]

When I lived in L.A. and had a long commute, I went to a beauty supply shop and bought a mannequin head that they use for wigs. I attached it to a box and strapped “her” in using the seatbelt. Worked like a charm. Never got a ticket in the car pool lane. I called her Diamond Lane Debbie.

[Alex Murphy]

"I don't always violate the HOV lane law ... but when I do, I get a $124 ticket."

ROTFL!

[cicero2k]

The 405 on a winter dark evening, the carpool lane is just another lane.

Few two person cars.

[FirstFlaBn]

The current administration will employ the technique to boost their deportation totals.

[RightGeek]

Get a mannequin -

[Kartographer]

If they bitched about it you could have always married ‘her’ and told them ‘she’ was legally your wife, I mean now days you can pretty much marry what eve you want!

[catnipman]

got caught cause he went cheap. should have gotten a Japanese sex doll if he was serious about this.

[Kartographer]

What say you Laz?;-)