TACOMA, Wash. — Carpool-lane violators are nothing new on interstates across the USA.
But one Washington driver tried his luck Tuesday with a lifesized-version of "The Most Interesting Man in the World."
It was a most interesting variation on the theme of getting extra passengers into a car that had only a driver. But the life-sized cardboard cutout of the Dos Equis guy, dressed in a windbreaker and properly buckled into the passenger seat of a car, didn't fool a Washington State Patrol officer.
Officials did not release the man's name.
"I don't always violate the HOV lane law ... but when I do, I get a $124 ticket," tweeted Trooper Guy Gill, state patrol spokesman based here. "We'll give him an A for creativity."
