The Prius driver, 23-year-old Timothy Hird of Winder, told the officer that people are constantly teasing him about his hybrid Toyota, which runs on both gasoline and battery power.
Hird and another driver, 18-year-old Alejandro Gamboa of Lawrenceville, were both arrested and charged with reckless driving.
The officer stopped them after Gamboa nearly slammed into the police cruiser while trying to pass Hird on a very narrow, curvy stretch of Ga. 211, according to a Braselton police report. Another driver also told the officer that Gamboa and Hird nearly ran him off the road earlier.
Police believe Hird was trying to prove how fast his Prius could go.
"Hird repeatedly told me that people are always harassing him on the road because he drives a Prius," the officer wrote in his report.
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