{"id":131018,"date":"2025-09-09T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:57:16","slug":"man-driving-pink-barbie-truck-on-street-in-prince-george-b-c-arrested-by-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131018\/","title":{"rendered":"Man driving pink Barbie truck on street in Prince George, B.C., arrested by RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The man will appear in court in December and has been issued a 90-day driving suspension.HO\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

A British Columbia man has been arrested for allegedly driving a pink toy Barbie truck down a city street while impaired.<\/p>\n

RCMP in Prince George, B.C., say officers encountered the man driving the toy truck on Friday at around 9 a.m., during the city\u2019s busy morning commute.<\/p>\n

An officer at the scene stopped the vehicle and found that the man had a suspended licence and was likely impaired.<\/p>\n

The driver was arrested for prohibited driving and given breathalyzer tests, producing two samples that police say showed he was over the legal limit.<\/p>\n

The man has since been issued a 90-day driving suspension and is set to appear in court in December.<\/p>\n

Police say any vehicle driven on the road powered by anything other than human-exerted muscular force qualifies as a motor vehicle and requires licence and insurance, adding that officers had to pull over the toy truck because of the risk it posed to other drivers going around it.<\/p>\n

Police photos of the incident appear to show a battery-run Power Wheels Barbie Jeep Wrangler, which manufacturer Fisher-Price says is capable of speeds up to 8 kilometres an hour and is equipped with power brakes and steering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The man will appear in court in December and has been issued a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-131018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}