Rare is the Pacific Northwest commuter who isn’t tempted to find a blow-up doll, a department store dummy or another reasonable facsimile to fill in as a ‘passenger’ when traffic is stopped, and the HOV lane is wide open! Most settle for an unemployed friend with nothing else to do but warm the passenger seat, but not our hero. Maybe worst of all, Brian Stime might have got away with the ruse indefinitely had he not revealed an impatient nature. Given a clear HOV lane, he was driving aggressively and fast enough to catch the eye of a state patrolman – who now has seen nearly everything.
Seattle man caught speeding in HOV lane with skeleton