--- title: Driver Ticketed For for Using 'Zombie Baby' in Carpool Lane description: At least he was in the Halloween spirit canonical: https://time.com/4093172/driver-ticketed-for-using-zombie-baby-in-carpool-lane/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T21:24:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:27.276Z og:title: Man Ticketed For Using A 'Zombie Baby' in the Carpool Lane og:description: At least he was in the Halloween spirit og:url: https://time.com/4093172/driver-ticketed-for-using-zombie-baby-in-carpool-lane/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Ticketed For Using A 'Zombie Baby' in the Carpool Lane twitter:description: At least he was in the Halloween spirit twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Driver Was Ticketed For Using a 'Zombie Baby' in the Carpool Lane  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 29, 2015 9:24 PM CUT  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 29, 2015 9:24 PM CUT Drivers will do anything to try to avoid sitting in rush hour traffic, including enlisting the help of the undead. On Tuesday, Washington State Patrol reported that a trooper caught a carpool lane violator near Tacoma using a “zombie baby” as his second rider. The doll was dressed in a pink onesie and black hat, and police said the man buckled it into the passenger side of his car before entering the high-occupancy vehicle lane. [Trooper Guy Gill](https://twitter.com/wspd1pio "undefined"), public information officer for the Washington State Patrol District 1, tweeted a picture of the creepy prop strapped into the front seat. > [](https://twitter.com/wspd1pio/status/659032732987600896) Gill said the driver’s trick was not difficult for police to spot. “He did a good job dressing it up, he put some thought into it, but it was not hard to tell it was a not child,” he told the [New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/driver-zombie-baby-carpool-lane-136-ticket-article-1.2416137 "undefined"). The driver was fined $136 for driving in the carpool lane, but police said they gave him a break for not having the doll in a car seat. > [](https://twitter.com/wspd1pio/status/659041708265463808) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4093172/driver-ticketed-for-using-zombie-baby-in-carpool-lane/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4093172/driver-ticketed-for-using-zombie-baby-in-carpool-lane/"},"headline":"This Driver Was Ticketed For Using a 'Zombie Baby' in the Carpool Lane","datePublished":"2015-10-29T21:24:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:27.276Z","description":"At least he was in the Halloween spirit","url":"https://time.com/4093172/driver-ticketed-for-using-zombie-baby-in-carpool-lane/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","police","baby","Zombies","Cops","Washington State","Weird News","halloween"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4093172/driver-ticketed-for-using-zombie-baby-in-carpool-lane/","name":"This Driver Was Ticketed For Using a 'Zombie Baby' in the Carpool Lane"}}]}] ```