The Great Ganesha

1 set of used blue scrubs: $10
1 old gray sweatshirt stuffed with newspaper: $5
1 Styrofoam head: $1
Getting pulled over for driving alone in the HOV lane with a dummy made from the above ingredients: Priceless

And that’s what happened to Denver local Greg Pringle (no, this is not a joke). Read about it here in the NYT. The dummy is called ‘Tillie’.

As punishment, he was ordered by the judge to stand at a busy intersection holding a sign that said, “HOV lane is not for dummies.” And also, he auctioned off the dummy on Ebay to the firm Video Professor for $15,000, who in turn, are going to auction it off again. Pringle had to donate the proceeds to a National Safety Council campaign as part of his sentence. Video Professor plans to do the same. After sprucing Tillie up a bit, though…

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