Cops everywhere can rest a little easier today — there's no longer a need to be on the lookout for a hot Wienermobile.
Oscar Mayer's super-sized fiberglass hot dog on a bun was pulled over about 10:30 Wednesday morning on Interstate 10 near the South Sixth Avenue exit.
Blame a few bad keystrokes rather than the munchies for the unscheduled stop.
A bad computer entry mistakenly showed the Wienermobile was sporting a stolen license plate, prompting an officer in an unmarked car to pull the dog over, said Officer Carmen Figueroa, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety.
A DPS officer in a marked patrol car and another on a motorcycle came by to get a closer look at the unusual stop.
An officer called the police agency that made the computer entry, talked with the Columbia Police Department in Wisconsin and learned the entry should have read that the license plate had been stolen if it was on any vehicle that isn't a giant hot dog.
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The Wienermobile — with a Wisconsin license plate reading "YUMMY" — was allowed to go about its business.
The state DPS was changing the computer entry so the Wienermobile and its driver can avoid future entanglements with the law, Figueroa said.
Did you know…
Tucsonan Vetzaira Meza late last year beat out 18,000 competitors to sing the Oscar Mayer jingle on Spanish-language television commercials.
Vetzaira, then 9, won $5,000 and a trip for four to Los Angeles for filming.
