The perfect example of somebody getting caught doing something he doesn’t suppose to be doing because he was doing somethings he wasn’t suppose to be doing is a fella in the state of Washington who was driving around I-90 on a suspended license in a car where the flashlights were his headlights.

“I don’t know of any car manufacturer that duct tapes flashlights to the front of their cars upon sale,” is what Washington State Patrol Officer Rick Johnson told CNN.

I know, I know putting the flashlights in the place of the headlights sounds creative. Why go to a NAPA Auto Parts store to get new headlights when you can go to Home Depot to get flashlights instead?! The problem with all of that is the law doesn’t allow for a person to use flashlights in the place of headlights, no matter how beat up the front end of the person’s car is.

Look at it!



It looks like somebody took a bat, axe, hammer or a car and worked out all of her problems on that poor car, there. To make matters worse, the car’s owner didn’t even take the time out to get the car fixed. He instead treated the car like a side piece by giving it the coupon treatment with those flashlights.

The law doesn’t like that, though. The law has rules and regulations governing how a man should treat his car. One of those rules and regulations is that a car should have “luminous” lights that will give the driver the light he needs in order to drive down the road at night or when it’s raining. Here’s how the state of Washington puts it:

    (1) Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with at least two head
         lamps with at least one on each side of the front of the motor
         vehicle, which head lamps shall comply with the requirements
         and limitations set forth in this chapter.

    (2) Every head lamp upon every motor vehicle shall be located at a
         height measured from the center of the head lamp of not more
         than fifty-four inches nor less than twenty-four inches to be
         measured as set forth in RCW 46.37.030 (2).

    (3) No additional lamp, reflective device, or other motor vehicle
         equipment shall be added which impairs the effectiveness of
         this standard.

From the looks of the broken headlights and “added” flashlight, one can tell that the car is not meeting the luminous standard or the height standard set forth by the state of Washington.

Suuure, the flashlights as headlights thing is creative and whoever got the flashlights working is a little genius. But, the rules of the road are the rules of the road. And flashlights can’t be used in the place of headlights because the flashlights don’t provide enough light for the driver to see the road that he is sharing with other drivers.

Therefore, the copers have to do what the copers have to do. In the case of that poor fella, the copers had to pull him over, arrest him, and hit him with several charges which included driving around without headlights and driving on a suspended license.

Crimes…you can’t commit them at any time.