Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SEATTLE, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A Washington state trooper said a motorist cited for driving alone in the carpool lane was traveling with an elaborately decorated dummy disguised as a human. State Patrol Trooper Jeff Merrill said the Mazda driver was pulled over after his dummy, which was in the rear passenger seat, slumped over so it could not be seen from outside the car, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Thursday. Advertisement Merrill said the driver admitted the dummy -- dressed in a denim jacket, a hoodie and glasses with a painted-on black beard -- was intended to fool traffic cops into thinking a passenger was riding along while driving in the carpool lane. "This guy, he went to great extremes," Merrill said. The man was given a $124 citation and allowed to keep his mannequin. "It's not a crime to have it," Merrill said. "But if you use it to cheat, then you're going to get a ticket."
