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A Washington State Trooper pulled over a speeding Semi only to discover the driver was producing music in his truck cab, rocking the mic while rolling. Photo: Washington State Patrol District 3 — A Washington State Trooper pulled over a speeding Semi only to discover the driver was producing music in his truck cab. Photo: Washington State Patrol District 3

These days, every recordist wears a lot of hats. No one’s just a producer anymore. Many pros are also the engineer and maybe the artist as well. Artist Manager? Label Chief? Publicist? Concert Promoter? Sure, probably those, too. One hat that you shouldn’t wear while recording music, however, is Speeding Truck Driver.

One aspiring music professional apparently didn’t get that vital piece of information/common sense, and was recently arrested in Kennewick, a small city in Benton County, WA.

According to a Twitter post by Washington State Troop Patrol District 3’s Public Information Officer Chris Thorson, a Trooper Trombley stopped a semi that was hammering along 17 miles over the speed limit in Kennewick.

Home Recording, Beverly Hills-Style

Interstate 82, which passes through the small city, has a speed limit of 70, so presuming the State Trooper was patrolling the highway, that means the driver was doing almost 90 MPH.

That alone is horrifying but what takes the cake is that once Trombley pulled the truck over, he looked in the cab and discovered the suspect had been recording music while barreling down the road. A follow-up post revealed that the driver had even installed “a drop down mic from the ceiling of the cab.” That takes mobile recording to a whole new—and thoroughly inadvisable—level.

The driver was arrested for suspicion of DUI and drugs. Photo: Washington State Patrol District 3

Despite all that, the suspect wasn’t arrested for rocking the mic while rolling, but instead for something entirely different: suspicion of DUI and drugs, due to a bag of white powder and other paraphernalia found in the truck cab. Which would explain a lot.

No word whether the driver was covering “Truckin’” by The Grateful Dead.

As Thorson himself put it in his post, “Just when you thought you have heard it all…..”

Just when you thought you have heard it all…..Trooper Trombley stopped a semi truck driver for speeding (17 over). After arresting the driver for suspicion of DUI/drugs, he found out that the suspect produces/records music while driving down the highway. #notacceptable pic.twitter.com/QdAdj1ZS4G

— Trooper C. Thorson (@wspd3pio) February 10, 2020