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MADem

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Thu May 8, 2014, 10:50 AM May 2014

State Police Cite Driver for Having Fake Passenger in HOV Lane [View all]

http://www.wggb.com/2014/05/08/state-police-cite-driver-for-having-fake-passenger-in-hov-lane/



...Mass. State Police say that around 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Trooper John Carnell was working a detail in Quincy when he reportedly saw a vehicle enter the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane of I-93 northbound, also known as the Southeast Expressway, “with what appeared to be a counterfeit passenger.”

The vehicle was then pulled over on I-93 by Carnell, when State Police found that the driver had allegedly “propped up a work jacket with a mannequin head affixed to the top of the jacket in an attempt to create the illusion of a true passenger.”

...State Police note that this is not the first time that Carnell has pulled someone over for having a fake passenger. Back in April 2013, he pulled someone over and found that a woman had reportedly placed a full-size doll in a car seat, in an effort to pass the doll off as a real passenger.
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