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Sat 5 Nov, 2005 10:46 am
Quote:Learning a lot from a dummy, man busted in carpool lane
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) ?- Kevin Morgan is no dummy ?- but he got in trouble for driving with one.
Morgan, 28, got a $351 citation for putting a kickboxing dummy in the passenger seat of his car, then driving in a lane reserved for vehicles carrying more than one person.
"I think he was pretty embarrassed because all the people driving by were laughing," Officer Will Thompson said. "About the only thing he said was, 'Well, that didn't help me very much today, did it?'"
Thompson often parks next to the car pool lane and stands on his car door rail to look down into passing vehicles. His point of view allowed him to see Morgan's dummy ?- which was wearing a Miami Dolphins jacket and a baseball cap, but had no legs.
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(thanks to John Walkenbach's blog)
He's not the only one. Dummies have become quite popular
in areas where carpool lanes are in high demand. By now,
they perfected the dummies to look quite authentic though.
Yeah, Kevin Morgan didn't invent that particular ruse. BTW, in some localities cops use a similar gimmick themselves. In Columbia, SC, there used to be city police cruiser parked near the State Capitol building with two dummies, dressed in police uniforms inside. (Perhaps I shouldn't use the past tense, but I haven't been down that way in a couple of years so don't know if the cruiser is still there.) The idea was that, spotting the parked and occupied cruiser, drivers woul automatically slow down. Didn't work very well for local drivers after the first time, of course.
i guess it's just a modernized version of using a scarecrow ... and the birds usually figure out pretty quickly that they have nothing to worry about, sometimes i've seen them sitting right on the scarecrow. hbg
Ha! I thought the title to this thread was along the lines of "It's the economy, Stupid!" "Carpool, dummy!" Like, stop complaining about the price of gas and carpool.
Sigh.
littlek wrote:Ha! I thought the title to this thread was along the lines of "It's the economy, Stupid!" "Carpool, dummy!" Like, stop complaining about the price of gas and carpool.
Sigh.
Mods, 'k's' out to lunch again......
Conspicuously, there is a comma absent in Reyn's original post, which, if present, would, indeed, have changed the thrust of the post. "Carpool, dummy!" Catchy. I like it, littleK.
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