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Carpool lane cheater fail: 'Nice try -- but jackets don't count,' CHP says
When it comes to cheating the carpool lane in California, drivers can be creative.
There was the safety dummy that was misappropriated by impatient commuters. The mannequin wearing a baseball cap in Glendora and one with a drawn-on mustache in the Bay Area.
So by those standards, what the California Highway Patrol discovered when they pulled over a driver in the carpool lane in West Covina recently would be half-hearted.
According to a social media post by the CHP’s Baldwin Park office on Thursday, officers pulled over a driver in the high-occupancy vehicle lane of the 10 Freeway and found a jacket wrapped around the passenger seat headrest.
“Nice try — but jackets don’t count toward Carpool Lane requirements,” the CHP said in its post.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-17/carpool-lane-cheater-fail-nice-try-but-jackets-dont-count-chp-says