In North Rhine-Westphalia, a driver is causing a stir on social media. The police can’t believe the supposed fun.
Dortmund – The strangest stories from road traffic often go viral on social media. Whether fines or speed camera photos, there are rarely limits to what you can imagine. A driver in a Cookie Monster costume probably took things too far.
Drivers in Cookie Monster costumes get flashed
The North Rhine-Westphalia Dortmund Police Department reported on the special driver. “Yes, of course, it’s really funny to put a Cookie Monster mask over your head, drive along the A45 and get flashed,” the police captioned their post X (formerly Twitter). However, it quickly becomes clear that this was by no means a trivial offense, but an extremely dangerous action.
“Irony mode off: It’s not funny to overlook another road user with a limited field of vision at 91 km/h,” says the Dortmund police. Far too much can happen that the driver no longer has control over. “It’s not funny to cause a traffic accident like that. “It’s not funny to seriously injure or kill someone,” it says drastically. In Bavaria, a driver was even caught driving at 200 km/h.
Police appeal to Cookie Monster driver’s conscience
There was no accident involving the Cookie Monster driver. “Even if the accident didn’t happen: the photo with the Cookie Monster mask is real. We took the picture on September 20th, 2024 at 9:08 p.m. during a speed control on the A45 between the Dortmund-Süd motorway junction and the Westhofener Kreuz.” The driver was only 11 km/h too fast and the speed camera photo cost him 40 euros cost.
That’s not enough for the police: “It would be of much greater value if the driver thought about their own respect for life on the road.” To achieve this, the police would prefer to resort to a simple measure: a personal conversation with someone drastic announcement. “We would have a face-to-face, unfiltered conversation about what it feels like to give death news to relatives.” Another driver sped away from the police at 100 mph and the car fell off a bridge. (approx)
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