No, You Can't Drive A Barbie Jeep In Traffic, Especially When Drunk

A Canadian man recovered retired nan difficult measurement tin get arrested for drunk driving moreover if nan conveyance is simply a Power Wheels Barbie Jeep. Apparently, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are besides nan nosy police. 

Kasper Lincoln of Prince George, British Columbia, told Global News that he had so borrowed his roommate's daughter's Power Wheels Jeep to spell get a Slurpee. "It's not for illustration it was a high-speed chase," he said. "I waited until it was safe, and erstwhile I crossed nan roadworthy I was doing my manus signals."

Sounds for illustration a reasonable, if a small lazy, feline pinch information first and foremost successful mind. The RCMP, however, disagreed pinch his reasoning:

"It was benignant of retired of nan ordinary, arsenic good arsenic this is simply a engaged area during greeting commute and put different drivers connected nan roadworthy astatine risk, arsenic good that peculiar driver himself," Cpl. Jennifer Cooper, media relations serviceman for nan Prince George RCMP told Global News.
"Motorists aren't utilized to looking retired for personification benignant of astatine that level, nan artifact car level. So it was capable to commencement a postulation stop."

I tin really spot their point. Even my Miata sat excessively low for many trucks and SUVs to see, causing their drivers to not spot nan agleam reddish sports car adjacent to them.

The postulation extremity led officers to find that Lincoln had a suspended license, which is apt why he was driving nan Power Wheels alternatively of a existent car. Though Lincoln denied drinking that morning, constabulary opportunity he grounded 2 breathalyzer tests, starring to his arrest, an further 90-day suspension, and a tribunal date. Fortunately, nan conveyance was not impounded and alternatively returned to Lincoln's roommate's girl undamaged.

It whitethorn look a spot frivolous that a man could beryllium arrested for DUI successful a artifact car pinch a apical velocity of 3 MPH (unless modified, of course). But nan Prince George RCMP was clear successful its Facebook post: "If it has a motor, you'd amended beryllium sober." Canada takes DUI rather seriously, to nan constituent wherever non-Canadians who person been convicted of immoderate DUI ever are considered "criminally inadmissible" and will not beryllium allowed to sojourn Great White North without jumping done a bunch of ineligible hoops. This could besides explicate Lincoln's astonishment complete nan seriousness of each this.

Besides, location are galore amended uses for a Power Wheels Barbie Jeep than taking it to nan shop for a Slurpee. You could soup it up and make it look for illustration a existent Jeep. You could upgrade nan batteries and motors and take it resistance racing, aliases race astir a mini track (or even a ample track). My individual favorite, though, is Extreme Barbie Jeep Racing, wherever 1 aliases much drivers title unmodified toys down a steep, unsmooth hillside, often resulting successful catastrophic crashes that are nosy to watch. Please don't get your roommate's daughter's Barbie Jeep to effort this. It astir apt won't travel backmost successful 1 piece.

h/t The Drive