A British Columbia man found himself in hot water after choosing to cruise down a public road in a child-sized pink Barbie Jeep — all in the name of avoiding a short walk to get a Slurpee.
Kasper Lincoln, the man at the center of this incident, was caught on camera on September 5th rolling down 15th Avenue in Prince George, B.C., in a miniature vehicle intended for children between the ages of 3 and 7. Wearing aviator sunglasses and a smug grin, Lincoln explained to the CBC that he was simply “lazy” and didn’t feel like walking — so he borrowed the Barbie-themed toy car from his roommate’s child to make the Slurpee run.
“I never drove it before,” Lincoln said, chuckling as he recounted the stunt.
But local authorities were not laughing. Multiple witnesses recorded Lincoln’s slow-speed joyride, which prompted an unmarked Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) vehicle to pull him over. Despite his claim of using hand signals and hugging the curb — and his painfully slow speed of “maybe 3 miles per hour,” as one bystander estimated — Lincoln still violated several traffic laws.
Summer Caron, who filmed the arrest, was shocked that the RCMP took the time to intervene. “You’re really arresting him for driving a kid’s Jeep?” she asked the officers, clearly amused by the situation.
But the facts quickly sobered the mood. Upon stopping Lincoln, officers discovered his driver’s license had been suspended. Two subsequent Breathalyzer tests confirmed what they had suspected from the beginning — Lincoln was under the influence.
In the eyes of the law, the vehicle’s toy-like appearance is irrelevant. As Kyra Lee, a legal expert interviewed by CBC, explained: “You are required to have a driver’s license in British Columbia if you’re operating any motorized vehicle on the roadway. That includes Barbie cars, toy cars, electric skateboards — anything like that. It is required to have a license and insurance.”
In other words, driving drunk is driving drunk — whether you’re behind the wheel of a Ford F-150 or a Fisher-Price pink convertible.
Lincoln now faces a traffic violation and potentially more serious consequences depending on how the case proceeds. However, he seems largely unfazed. Laughing about the arrest, Lincoln said the officer was polite and “filling out all this paperwork, saying ‘This is my first time!’” — a clear indication of how rare and unusual the event was.
Still, in a final word that almost seemed to mock the seriousness of the event, Lincoln did offer a brief PSA: “Don’t drink and drive.”
