The California highway patrol says it has caught a driver improperly using the carpool lane with the help of the “most realistic dummy” officers say they have ever seen.
The Toyota Tacoma was pulled over by CHP officer S. Sullinger after the eagle-eyed Officer Rodrigo Jiminez became suspicious of the Toyota Tacoma while looking for carpool lane violators. It was an illegally tinted passenger window that caught his attention, Officer Jimenez told the LA Daily News.
Photos posted to Facebook by the California Highway Patrol show that dummy was remarkably realistic. Wearing reading glasses and a Cleveland baseball cap, it even had wrinkles and a facemask.