Troopers stop stowaway on bike hitched to dump truck

GORST, Wash. — A dump truck with a trailer had an extra passenger -- a bicyclist who surreptitiously hitched a ride Tuesday morning in Gorst, police said.

Washington State Patrol Trooper Chelsea Hodgson said the 33-year-old man could not get a ride back to Belfair, so he grabbed onto the truck's tongue.

The man held on for 2 miles until troopers stopped the truck.

Hodgson said the truck driver had no idea the man was hanging on.

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