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I’ve heard people say they wanted to try this before, but I’ve never heard of anyone actually doing it. I think it’s pretty funny this guy got caught. Remember what Sammy Davis Jr. says, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”, or in this case pay the fine…..

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – Say what you want about police officers, but they are no dummies. The California Highway Patrol gave Kevin Morgan, 28, of Petaluma, a $351 citation for driving in a high occupancy vehicle or “HOV” lane with a kickboxing dummy propped in the passenger seat.

The dummy was wearing a Miami Dolphins windbreaker and a baseball cap but Officer Will Thompson noticed that the “passenger” had no legs.

“When I looked inside his window, I thought, ‘Oh, that’s cute,’” Thompson said. “I didn’t even ask him where he got it. I think he was pretty embarrassed because all the people driving by were laughing.”

Thompson often parks next to a car pool lane and stands on his car door rail to look down into passing vehicles. His point of view allowed him to see the legless dummy.

“I think about the only thing he said was, ‘Well, that didn’t help me very much today, did it?’” Thompson said. “I said, ‘No, it didn’t.’

Thompson then placed the dummy on a freeway shoulder to deter other commuters from similar schemes.

I mean really though. Long time readers know that traffic violations are one of my pet peeves. How hard is it? If it takes you 20 minutes to drive to work legal, then leave your house 20 minutes before you have to be at work…..C’mon people. We all have to live on this planet together and traffic laws are in place for a reason.

[Calif. Man Caught in 'HOV' Lane With Dummy - Yahoo! News]