--- description: It would have worked... until he got pulled over for speeding title: Long Island Man Put Sweatshirt on Dummy to Drive in Carpool Lane image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8bf62226f3b1d301/6987816a2dce01222f9ddc92/fake-passenger.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Someone Dressed Up a Wooden Dummy to Drive in the Carpool Lane  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Feb 27, 2015 5:48 PM CUT  Suffolk Highway Patrol  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Feb 27, 2015 5:48 PM CUT A Long Island man was able to drive in the carpool lane Friday morning by allegedly putting a sweatshirt on a wooden dummy– until police pulled him over for speeding. James Campbell, 56, was issued two tickets after police found him driving in the high-occupancy-vehicle lane of the Long Island Expressway with a crude wooden dummy shaped like a human. He was pulled over for speeding Friday morning, and told the officer he was trying to get to a new job on time. The dummy was a wooden board with a “head” attached, wearing a hooded sweatshirt. Sounds like a genius plan. _Read next:_ [_Leonard Nimoy’s Final Tweet Will Make You Cry_](http://time.com/3726337/leonard-nimoy-dead-twitter/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3726199/long-island-carpool-wooden-dummy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3726199/long-island-carpool-wooden-dummy/"},"headline":"Someone Dressed Up a Wooden Dummy to Drive in the Carpool Lane","datePublished":"2015-02-27T17:48:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:15.923Z","description":"It would have worked... until he got pulled over for speeding","url":"https://time.com/3726199/long-island-carpool-wooden-dummy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8bf62226f3b1d301/6987816a2dce01222f9ddc92/fake-passenger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8bf62226f3b1d301/6987816a2dce01222f9ddc92/fake-passenger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fake passenger","caption":"","creditText":"Suffolk Highway Patrol","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3726199/long-island-carpool-wooden-dummy/","name":"Someone Dressed Up a Wooden Dummy to Drive in the Carpool Lane"}}]}] ```