Speeding Ticket Frenzy in Michigan

[Florian_MI]

Hallo liebe Michigan-Reisende (wenn es die um diese Jahreszeit ueberhaupt gibt),

habe folgendes vor kurzem bekommen:

Michigan will launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that 9 million dollars will be generated in speeding tickets. 1 million will go to pay state troopers overtime. There will be 50 state troopers on duty at all times patrolling the 6 main intersections and highways.

I-75 north and south
I-94 (from Ann Arbor to Port Huron)
Entire length of I-696
I-275 north and south
M-10 Lodge Fwy
I-96 from Detroit West to M-14

Now, 5 mph above the limit can justify a ticket and every state trooper is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 10 minutes. They have issued 30 brand new unmarked Crown Victoria cruisers and they are bringing all their part timers on full time. If you work anywhere in the Detroit Metropolitan area, you must take one of there interstates, routes, or parkways. It's up to you how fast you are doing when they do.

Wear your seat belt, nothing hanging from the rear view mirror, do the speed limit (not a mile over) use cruise control if you have it, no cracks in your windshield, use your turn signals.

Starten soll die Aktion im Februar/Maerz.


Viele Gruesse aus Farmington Hills/Detroit,
Florian

[Florian_MI]

Bevor es jemand anderes tut, wiederspreche ich mir mal eben selbst:

Die obige Nachricht ist leider bzw. zum Glueck ein Hoax...

[http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/newjersey.asp
 
Claim:   State police are about to launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy in:
New Jersey
Tri-Cities area, Tennessee
Dallas or all of Texas
Orange County, California
Detroit or all of Michigan
Honolulu, Hawaii
Status:   False.

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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_oc_speeding_ticket_frenzy.htm
 
State police are about to launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy in XXX
 
Comments:  Recycled hoax. Similar messages circulating in 2005 claimed that state troopers in New Jersey and Tennessee would hand out speeding tickets every 10 minutes during a specified period of time to collect more fines to benefit the state treasuries. Officials in both states denied planning or implementing any such program.
In a January 19, 2006 article in the Orange County Register, CHP spokesman Chris Goodwin stated that the current email is "100 percent false," noting that the California Highway Patrol does not have speeding ticket quotas.

Update: A revised version of this email claims the "speeding ticket frenzy" will occur in Dallas, Texas.

Update: Another version claims it will occur in Michigan.

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Sorry fuer den Trouble!

[Redwingfan]

Jetzt muss ich mal fragen: du wohnst in Farmington Hills?? ich arbeit an Grand River und Hagerty. Gleich neben den BMW Händler. Kannst dich ja mal melden.

Gruss

Redwingfan