Fake baby, real fine -- Woman nabbed in HOV lane with phony kid in car

Toronto Sun ^ | 2006-03-23 | Jonathan Jenkins

[Clive]

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[TBP]

Maybe if these liberals hadn't promoted abortion as a positive social good, she'd have a real baby.

Liberals!

[advance_copy]

HOV lanes are stupid and they don't accomplish anything.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I've said it before:  if we have to have these lanes the requirement should be two licensed drivers. 

 

[BerniesFriend]

She faces a $110 fine and three demerit points.

I don't know what a demerit point is in open traffic..if you get so many, are you required to clean the chalk board at the local school? or do they kill you??

[Williams]

I rank this right up there with the "Animal Cops" shows. You have troopers analyzing the stiffness of a child's arms in the HOV lane, instead of perhaps observing and stopping a drug transaction, murder, rape, etc.

[kstewskis]

This sounds similar to the pregnant woman here in AZ who was fined for driving in the HOV lane. She insisted that she was "carpooling" and that her pending baby was a passenger.

She took her case to court...and lost. Mainly, because her baby-to-be did not take up an extra seat in the car.

[fanfan]

[martin_fierro]

"Don't mind my kid -- he's just a big dummy."

[Obadiah]

Bad boys...bad boys...what you gonna do when they come for you?

[The Old Hoosier]

Abolish HOV.

[Armigerous]

...."fake but accurate"

[doug from upland]

I have found them useful many times.

[absolootezer0]

if a cars whizzing by at 60mph+.. how does an officer have the time to analyze the "stiffness" of the arm. and how would he see the arm of the child, most car doors come very high up and you can't really see whats going on inside below the window.
i call BS, cop just made up an excuse to pull her over.

[garyhope]

"The astounding sense of entitlement of some".

I guess the "astounding sense of entitlement" now belongs to the government who want to regulate and penalize every bit of behavior by it's citizens.

It's laughable that the Dims in this country have their knickers in a twist about our government trying to listen in on the conversations of Islamofascist terrorists who are trying to kill us all, and yet day by day the governments erode our "rights" by penalties on trivial behavior.

Plus,.. special commuter lanes are elitist and cause worse traffic congestion, pollution and damage to our precious "environment".

[the OlLine Rebel]

Then should she have been fined for having another passenger on her lap?

[109ACS]

Does that mean she was tested and found to be HOV Negative?

[fhlh]

how does one enforce this?