It was really shocking for both the Minnesota Conservation Officers i. e. Mr. Kipp Duncan and Mr. Jen Muller to notice a shopping care wholly covered with zebra mussels resting in the back of a pickup truck in a parking lot in Two Harbors recently on Sept. 22.

“They covered the entire outline of the cart,” Mr. Duncan said. “It was pretty amazing to look at. I’ve never seen anything with that many zebra mussels on it,” he added.

It initially appeared really strange to the officers that the man carrying the zebra mussels openly didn’t even realize that he was performing an illegal act by driving a shopping cart covered with several of zebra mussels, which he saw while vacationing in Duluth, Minn. and moreover bought that unique junk back to his home to display at his hair salon.

But this is true. According to the statements revealed by the man, who was driving the truck i. e. Mr. Bruce A. Hinsverk, 51, of Wahpeton, N. D., to the officers, he was vacationing when he saw the shopping cart next to two Dumpsters on the Duluth waterfront, which he drove up from the North Shore to Grand Marais before returning to North Dakota with the shopping cart.

Mr. Hinsverk has been charged to pay $500 fine for his unlawfully possessing or transporting of the prohibited invasive species.