Police arrest woman for driving with 15-foot tree embedded in her car

A broken taillight. A loose muffler. A dangling side-view mirror.

There are plenty of perfectly legitimate, run-of-the-mill things police officers observe that can cause a driver to get pulled over.

And then there’s driving while a 15-foot tree is embedded in the front of your car.

That’s what caused police in the small Illinois town of Roselle to pull over and subsequently arrest a driver on January 23.

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According to the Roselle Police Department, an officer spotted the car and, uh, attached shrubbery driving southbound on Roselle Road.

When he pulled the driver over, the officer noticed the car also had deployed airbags, apparently as a result of impacting the tree.

The driver, a 54-year-old woman, reported she had struck the tree in nearby Schaumburg but didn’t remember how, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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She was eventually charged with Driving Under the Influence. The Roselle Police Department, meanwhile, released video of the arrest on March 7 in order to prove the unusual call happened as described.

“Some just didn’t believe it was true, so we have attached a short video of this call,” the department wrote.

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