Texas police have revealed that they recently ticketed a driver using the carpool lane on the Katy Tollway using a skeleton Halloween toy as a passenger. The Harris County Constable’s Precinct 5 shared an image of the “passenger” on its Facebook page, and the image certainly made people laugh.
- The driver certainly wasn’t very convincing. The skeleton wasn’t likely to ever be confused for a real, live passenger, and minimal effort was made to make it appear otherwise. However, it did have a pretty cool baseball hat on.
- Safety first! The one good thing is that the driver did at least buckle the real-life skeleton in, which is definitely a good thing since they were driving in the faster carpool lane. Safety is paramount!
- Even the police could see the funny side. As Officer Ted Heap wrote captioned the post: “Our deputies saw right through the ruse and issued the driver a bone-afide citation. After a sternum lecture, deputies wished him bone voyage!” Nice one! While this was definitely a silly stunt, no harm was done (except to the driver’s wallet) and everyone got a chuckle out of it, that’s for sure.
