Friday, July 25, 2025

March 2, 2015

Please Enjoy The Wooden Passenger A Man Made So He Could Drive In The Carpool Lane

There is nothing more frustrating than traffic, but just how far would you go to avoid spending hours manoeuvring your car out of the way of taxis?

Look, we all despise sitting in morning and evening traffic. It is a total time-waster and that time could be spent doing a trillion other things, like buying loo paper or cleaning out the fridge. If any of you have been nice enough to drop a mate at the airport on a weekday morning for their very inconvenient 9am flight, you will know that sitting on the N2 inbound at 8am is a near death experience. In fact, I sometimes think I would rather die than ever sit in that traffic.

The worst part is watching all the taxis race along the carpool lane. Even with a carpool lane, the cars are backed up (that’s because Cape Town only has two major roads).

I digress.

Let’s chat about this clever man from Long Island.

He needed to get to work on time and was running late, so he made a faux passenger out of wood and dressed him in a hoodie and then used the Long Island Expressway’s HOV lane.

It all came to a close when he was pulled over for speeding, and the officer asked for the passengers ID.

Awkward.

“I was trying not to laugh at the guy because I thought it was quite silly,” said officer Jonathan Abrams.

At least the officer seemed to have a good sense of humour. The driver drove away with a speeding ticket and an occupancy violation.

[Source: NBC New York]