CONTRA COSTA COUNTY (KRON) — Today’s message from the California Highway Patrol — don’t put a doll in your backseat and drive in the carpool lane.
That’s exactly what a driver in Contra Costa County tried this morning on I-680, until officers spotted the carpool violator.
The CHP took the incident as an opportunity to criticize the violators, saying drivers just “don’t get it.” read more
Carpool lanes suck.
Most of my life I’ve never been able to carpool for any number of reasons.
I think drivers do get it. We’re pissed off that there is a lane of traffic that we can’t use. This is all to set up municipalities with an opportunity to raise revenue. How many places with car pool lanes will now allow single occupant vehicles to buy a pass to drive in car pool lanes? In Seattle a car pool violation is now a ticket for $586.00. Talk about highway robbery!
Who paid for the lane?
The fucking carpoolers? Huh? Huh? Think so?
Really? Bet the cops used it to pull the guy over!
They carpooling? Fucking revenue collectors.
We’re so used to being fucked that we don’t even feel it, any more.
izlamo delenda est …
We had a blow-up doll as president for 8 years, yet no one pulled soros over.
I paid over $900 fine in California because of this carpool lane scam.
So what would they do if the caught that guy with a blowup doll having sex with it at a local lovers lane AKA passion pits.
The Car Pool Lanes saves lives. They should throw the book at this criminal.
Down in Charlotte NC they built express lanes and charge for using them. If you decide to use it you are simply billed by mail based on your license plate or the N.C. Quick Pass device. I don’t use them (cuz I’m cheap), but compared to HOV fines it’s pretty darn reasonable!
OTOH, I’m still trying to figure out how West Virginia managed to set up collecting tolls for a federally funded interstate highway. It cost $12.00 ($4.00 X 3 toll booths) to go one way thru WV.
Larry, go drive your car into a backyard pool and get it over with by drowning yourself. We triple dog dare you and Darwin is waiting to take you out of the gene pool.
Joe6 is right, it’s the CHP that doesn’t get it. We’re sick and tired of everything we do being a crime with an outrageous fine attached to it. Way past time for torches and pitchforks.
Reminds me of one of my favorite passages from Atlas Shrugged: “We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
“Your honor, my doll identifies as a human.” Case dismissed
The lanes joe6pack mentioned caused a bit of a stink between Washington and BC. BC refused to release Registration information to Washington So Washington could send bills/citations to people with BC plates for using those lanes. Then Washington decided it would not send such information to BC when requested.
When I’m the only one in my pick-up and a city bus is using the carpool lane, (even if it were full of people), that makes me the only person paying road tax between the two vehicles.
I would bet that the carpool law wasn’t the only thing that was violated.
The CHP does not make the laws, nor do they have any say in the fines assigned, that is all done by legislators in Sacramento.
The Bay Area is populated with whiny progressives who flood the 911 lines whenever they see a single occupant in the carpool lane. And this trick with the doll is so unoriginal. Pregnant women have also tried this trick, funny, but when in a carpool lane it’s a baby, otherwise just a clump of cells.
CHP must have found the one guy in California who didn’t have black-out window tint on his car.
Carpool lanes don’t piss me off nearly as much as the stupid “energy efficient vehicle” parking spaces at some stores. I enjoy parking my Diesel Silverado pickup there.
@Tim November 15, 2019 at 12:21 pm
> We’re so used to being fucked that we don’t even feel it, any more.
Pishaw! We feel all warm and cozy. Knowing they sleep among us.
Larry the lib always uses the carpool lane because his companion is a Thai houseboy that stays by his side constantly.
Sue the police.
The doll identifys as a human and they are infringing it’s rights.