As humans, we pride ourselves on being the most intelligent species and we come up with clever hacks to tackle almost any situation. One such hack has made a sex doll manufacturing company run out of stock. Some Australians used this hack, not for a better time in the bedroom, but to get rid of driving fines. The retailer of a life-size sex doll (named Donna) from Melbourne, Victoria claims that the realistic-looking doll has sold out due to motorists using it to avoid fines, according to LadBible. Okay, there's a lot to unpack here so let's delve into this 'wild secret'.

Some highway lanes in Australia can only be used by vehicles carrying more than one person and this rule is enforced with special cameras. However, some of our Australian friends have discovered that driving down the Eastern Freeway with a life-sized sex doll in the passenger seat can fool the cameras. It would be amusing to know who first came up with this hack but never mind—some things are better not revealed. The doll posing inside a car may have contributed to the success and 'misuse' of Donna priced at $5,500, per LadBible. According to Wild Secrets' marketing manager Adam Lea, the strange move has resulted in the Donna sex doll selling out. 

Lea shared with Herald Sun, "This has never happened in the company's 30-year history." He added, "The reason behind this sudden spike in sales, all of which are in Melbourne, seems to be as travel partners for people using the Eastern Freeway. The awful traffic on the Eastern has resulted in a coup for us. People are buying dolls so they can use the much faster transit lane." Reportedly, people were inspired by a promotional image of Donna seated behind the wheel of a car. 

As per Lea, the dolls used to sell 'infrequently' but there has been a flood of new purchases, with one customer even admitting that the sex doll purchase was purely for the purpose of fooling the cameras."Sometimes it would be only two a month…but then all of a sudden, recently, it was hourly sales, and now we don't have any left… the only reason we can think of is the Eastern Freeway," he said. 

According to the VicRoads website, driving in a T2 motorway transit lane is only permitted if two or more people are in the vehicle or if you are driving a bus, taxi, motorcycle, or tram. However, it also states that the 'passengers' must be human, which despite her realistic-looking face, Donna isn't, so if customers were caught with the doll passenger, they'd be in legal trouble and have a lot to explain to their spouses or girlfriends.

This stunt also freaks other codrivers around. "Anyone else seeing people traveling in the Eastern transit lane with dolls?" shared Reddit user u/Klutzy_Meaning_1081 alongside an image of a lifelike doll in the passenger seat of a car next to them. While many praised the driver for figuring out how to beat the system, some speculated that he might have been in a relationship with the doll. "Yeah, today is Take Your Sex Doll To Work Day," joked u/Robot_Graffiti. "This might sound weird but I'm pretty sure it's a sex doll, they have a whole forum/community and everything. They treat the dolls like real-life people and take them on holiday trips etc. Travel with them in the car and so on," guessed u/RollingonTwenties. "Nah it's so they can drive in the carpool lane if it looks like there's a passenger and get away with it. Weird for sure but done all over the world," cleared u/sir_pumpkinhead.