A driver stopped as he travelled to Manchester because its "shopping is better than in Liverpool" found himself in trouble with police on Sunday.
Patrols stopped the man while he was making way to Manchester to do some shopping, despite the lockdown restrictions advising only essential travel is allowed.
The driver had set off from his Liverpool home but was stopped as he passed through Cheshire.
Patrols from the North West Motorways Police pulled him over after tracking him for eight kilometres.
In tweets posted following their dealings with the driver, the police unit wrote: "Driver stopped for lane hogging over 8km (marker posts for distance).
"Found he'd borrowed his brother's car to go shopping in Manchester because the shop is better than the one at home in Liverpool. Assumed the insurance covers him, which it does not."
The tweets said he had been reported for driving offences and added: "If he stayed at home like he should, abided by the rules and observed road traffic law, perhaps the day wouldn't have turned out the same."
The driver was not the only one to spark police frustration over the weekend.
North Wales Police reported several incidents in which people had been stopped heading to Snowdonia for a mountain walk.
In one case, a driver was making the journey from Cumbria.
