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A boozed-up man sporting aviator glasses was busted driving a child-sized pink Barbie jeep down a main road in Canada to get a Slurpee, cops said.
Kasper Lincoln was spotted Sept 5. rolling down 15th Avenue in Prince George, British Columbia, in the pint-sized vehicle as his friend walked beside him, the CBC reported.
Lincoln had borrowed the toy car — built for kids ages 3 to 7 — from his roommate’s child to go on a Slurpee run with his friend because he “got lazy” and didn’t want to walk, he said.
“I never drove it before,” Lincoln told the outlet while laughing.
He said he had no idea he was breaking the law.
“I was using the hand signals and everything,” Lincoln said.
After several witnesses filmed Lincoln driving the Barbie vehicle, he was pulled over by an unmarked Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser, according to clips obtained by the outlet.
“You’re really arresting him for driving a kid’s Jeep?” said Summer Caron, who filmed Lincoln being cuffed.
She told the outlet she was shocked that police decided to get involved since Lincoln was hugging the curb in the comically small car and going “maybe 3 miles per hour.”
The cops slapped Lincoln with a traffic violation, learning during the stop that his driver’s license was suspended. Police also suspected he was inebriated, which was later confirmed by two Breathalyzer tests, the outlet said.
“You are required to have a driver’s license in British Columbia if you’re operating any motorized vehicle on the roadway,” said Kyra Lee, a lawyer not involved with the case, to the CBC.
“That includes Barbie cars, toy cars, electric skateboards — anything like that. It is required to have a licence and insurance,” she said.
Lincoln said he plans to fight the ticket and is taking the incident, which has since gone viral on social media, in stride.
“He was really nice,” Lincoln said of the arresting officer. “He was filling out all of this paperwork, saying ‘This is my first time!’
“Don’t drink and drive,” Lincoln said in a final word of advice.
