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by Randy Cassingham

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Big Dummy
“When I looked inside his window, I thought, ‘Oh, that’s cute’,” said California Highway Patrol officer Will Thompson, whose specialty is enforcing carpool lane restrictions in Marin County. He saw Kevin Morgan, 28, drive by with a kickboxing dummy sitting in the passenger seat. Thompson pulled him over, gave Morgan a $351 citation for driving solo in the high-occupancy lane, and confiscated the legless mannequin. As he wrote the ticket, Thomson noted, “all the people driving by were laughing” at the dummy. (Marin Independent-Journal) ...The mannequin, or Morgan?
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