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Friday, December 16, 2005 12:00 AM

Her fetus was riding shotgun

A pregnant woman in Arizona says she should be able to drive in the carpool lane.
Katharine Mieszkowski

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  • Saturday, December 17, 2005 05:26 PM

    not really novel

    As others have pointed out, this is not really a new scam. Even the quoted article says so:

    Valenzuela said it's not unheard of for women to use this argument to try to use the carpool lane, but it's very rare.

    "The dummy in the car is more common than this," he said.

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