A Prince George man was pulled over by police after driving a child-size pink toy Barbie Jeep along one of the main roads in the north-central B.C. city on Sept. 5.

And on a day that included a hit-and-run involving an ambulance and a prominent downtown business being destroyed by fire, photos and video of the Barbie Jeep quickly spread online with a mixture of humour and disbelief.

Photos captured by several witnesses show Kasper Lincoln wearing aviator sunglasses and cruising down 15th Avenue near Nicholson Street — one of the main thoroughfares.

Speaking to CBC News, Lincoln said he was getting ready to go get a slurpee with a friend but "got lazy" and decided to borrow his roommate's child's tiny car to get around, as his friend walked along beside him.

"I never drove it before," he said while laughing.

In the images, Lincoln is seen driving near the side of a road that's been closed for construction before turning onto an open side road. Then, an unmarked police cruiser pulls him over and he's arrested.

Some onlookers were in disbelief.

"You're really arresting him for driving a kid's Jeep?" asked Summer Caron, one of the people to film the man being put in handcuffs.

She told CBC News that Lincoln had been driving close to the curb and going "maybe three miles per hour."

RCMP say they pulled Lincoln over for a traffic stop and, in the course of talking to him, found he had a suspended licence and believed he was inebriated, later verified by two breath analysis tests, which Lincoln also confirmed to CBC News.

Lincoln also said the police told him they had received multiple calls about him, and told him he'd been driving in the middle of the road, which he denied, saying that for the majority of his journey he had been driving on the sidewalk until he saw the blocked off lane.

But none of that information was available to onlookers like Andrea Stirgard, a mail carrier who was leaving a nearby Canada Post office, was with her co-workers when they saw the Barbie Jeep coming toward them.