THE MANNEQUIN

The traffic police had been suspecting for a few weeks that a certain driver used a mannequin to occupy the second place of his car in order to be allowed to drive along the fast lane - a lane where only cars carrying at least two passengers were allowed to circulate. It was difficult to detect a car having a mannequin together with a human, but the eagle-like eye of officer García finally detected it.

"It is that yellow car coming into us", he announced to his colleague while putting his binoculars down. "Let's stop it... The fine will be historical".

The couple of agents stopped the car. Officer García examined quickly the co-driver. It was clear it was a mannequin, moveless, pale, covered with a hood and wearing sunglasses. Besides a blanket covered the lower part of his body. In the distance anyone could have believed it was a real human co-driver. 

Meanwhile, Garcia's colleague asked the driver to show him his driving license. But the driver didn't react, he remained looking ahead holding tightly the steering-wheel.

"Haven't you heard me?", insisted the other police officer, who was beginning to get nervous.

Then the co-pilot turned his head left into Garcia's colleague and said to him:

"Don't insist, officer. It's a mannequin. It can't speak..."

Frantz Ferentz, 2012