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Baby on Board? Woman kept plastic doll in car seat to use car pool lane

 Baby on Board? Woman kept plastic doll in car seat to use car pool lane
Weird Crime

A Minnesota woman was fined last month after a state trooper discovered she was using a fake baby to drive in the car pool lane. Minnesota State Patrol spokesperson Lt. Tiffany Nielson said a trooper pulled the driver over on I-35 after not spotting the woman’s special transponder on board. It was then that the trooper noticed that the “baby” wasn’t a real baby but …

‘Can you hear me?’ Phone scam calls increasing in Chicago
Consumer
April 4, 2017

‘Can you hear me?’ Phone scam calls increasing in Chicago

If an unknown caller asks if you can hear them, do not say “yes.” The Chicago Sun Times reports that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s issued a statement that her office has received an increase in complaints from residents about “Can you hear me?” phone calls from scammers. As previously reported by Crime Online, scammers have …