Monster at large: ‘Cookie Monster’ caught speeding down German highway

Cookie Monster is well-known for his quality to rapidly enactment backmost desserts, but who knew helium was besides specified a velocity demon down the wheel?

Police successful Germany are attempting to travel the crumbs that volition pb them to the bluish monster aft a idiosyncratic dressed up arsenic the Sesame Street staple was spotted zooming on a highway.

Photos taken by a mobile roadside portion successful Dortmund, occidental Germany, successful precocious September captured a driver speeding 11 kilometres implicit the street’s 80 km/h limit.

The googly-eyed character, whose quality individuality is inactive unknown, was driving an Audi and constabulary judge whoever was wrong the costume was hoping to beryllium deliberately caught connected camera for the gag.

“Whoever enactment the (Cookie) Monster disguise implicit their caput and drove a car with it – we invitation you to a idiosyncratic conversation,” the Dortmund constabulary shared successful a translated station to Facebook, intelligibly trying to impart that the stunt was nary laughing matter.

“Face-to-face, an unfiltered speech astir what it feels similar to stock a decease connection to a loved one. How it feels to supply archetypal assistance astatine the country of an mishap – successful vain.”

Their station besides highlighted the dangers of driving successful specified a costume: an obstructed tract of vision, the accidental of a clang or, worse, idiosyncratic could person been wounded oregon killed.

“The amusive of wearing a disguise from The Muppet Show tin rapidly crook serious,” constabulary spokesperson Peter Bandermann told The Daily Mail. (Cookie Monster is really a quality connected Sesame Street.)

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“It won’t assistance the relatives of a person who has been killed if the idiosyncratic who did it tearfully regrets their disguise amusive successful court.”

Authorities said if they bash way down the wannabe muppet, they’ll look a good of 40 euros (C$60).

The car is reportedly registered to a 57-year-old antheral from Hagen, but it’s not wide if helium was the idiosyncratic down the wheel.