( CNN ) Call it `` The Most Interesting Traffic Ticket in the World . '' A Washington state trooper caught a driver using a cardboard cutout of Jonathan Goldsmith , the Dos Equis beer pitchman known as `` The Most Interesting Man in the World . '' The driver , who was by himself , was attempting to use the HOV lane . `` The trooper immediately recognized it was a prop and not a passenger , '' Trooper Guy Gill told the New York Daily News . `` As the trooper approached , the driver was actually laughing . '' Gill sent out a tweet with a photo of the cutout -- who was clad in what looked like a knit shirt , a far cry from his usual attire -- and the unnamed laughing driver : `` I do n't always violate the HOV lane law ... but when I do , I get a $ 124 ticket ! We 'll give him an A for creativity ! '' The driver was caught on Interstate 5 near Fife , Washington , just outside Tacoma . `` He could have picked a less recognizable face to put on his prop , '' Gill told the Daily News . `` We see that a lot . Usually it 's a sleeping bag . This was very creative . ''
A driver was caught in the HOV lane with a cutout of `` Most Interesting Man '' on his windshield.