I got this email figured id share it usually BS but here it is anyway
Subject: Michigan State Police Memo for those of you who drive the Highway to work each day
HEADS UP
Look out for MI-DOT Trucks parked along the road or suddenly appearing behind you pacing you - it could be a Trooper driving the truck. Called 'Operation Yellow Jacket', each Michigan State Police District has a truck cleaned up and ready to go! These trucks have specially modified engines that can virtually catapult the truck from snow-plow speed to intercept speed in seconds. And when the engine boost kicks in, the warning lights automatically change from flashing yellow to the dreaded red and blue!
Starting March 1, 2009, Michigan will launch a 31 day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that $9 million dollars will be generated in speeding tickets, with an additional $3.5 million in revenue for failure to wear a seatbelt. $1 million will go to pay state troopers overtime. There will be 47 state troopers on duty at all times patrolling the main intersections and highways with the highest rates of speeding.
They are the following:
I-75, especially from the Ohio line north to Woodhaven, and again from
Auburn Hills to Flint
I-96 east and west in its entirety
I-275 north and south
I-675 north and south
I-94 east and west from Battle Creek to Jackson
I-696 east and west in its entirety
I-196 east and west
US-131 north and south
I-69 east and west from Lansing to Flint and again from Flint eastward to Port
Huron.
I-69 north and south from I-94 to Lansing
M-14 east and west from I-94 to I-275
M-39 from I-94 to I-96
M-59, especially from Pontiac to Utica , and from Utica east
US -10 from Midland to Bay City
US-23 from I-96 to Flint
US-27 from Lansing to Mt. Pleasant
Quotas:
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 to 20 minutes.
They have issued 30 brand new unmarked Dodge Charger Police cruisers and canceled all vacation time. In addition, they are bringing in all of their part timers on full time for the month. This program could possibility conclude on April 1.
Driving Ticket fine increase in MI:
Starting on January 15th, 2009 the price of a ticket for violation of MI Law 39:3-29 (failure to show your driver's license, registration, or proof of insurance card at the time you are stopped) went from $44.00 to $173.00.
Please make sure your vehicles have the proper documents in them. If you jump in the car to run to the store and forget your wallet with your license in it and you are stopped.... Oh well... you just spent $173. And the fine for not having all three documents is $519!!!
looks like we be going for a ride ==dunno and it won't be a muddy one.
glad i live in the north
hoax
http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/speeding.asp
It's ==bs first off.. can't put a state trooper in a county vehicle... or vice/versa
secondly... they will NEVER get a plow truck up to .. pursuit speed.. thats just stupid
However.. one of our drivers did see a corvette with a extreme low profile light bar, sheild on the R door and "State Police" on the deck lid, coming out of Lansing this week.
saw 2 dodge magnums, unmarked, had someone pulled over on way back from ann arbor.
dont speed = no worrys
Quote from: Bigdaddy on March 21, 2009, 01:31:23 PM
dont speed = no worrys
I'm lucky to get the s-10 to highway speed let-a-lone speed if I get pulled over it'll be for driving to slow
I ALSO SEEN THIS LETTER AND I'M SURE THERE OUT THERE DOIN SOMTHING
Sounds like B.S.............nobody would pull over for a county truck anyway.........even if there was a cop in it..
i have family in law enforcement and they also are calling it bs and i would like to see a plow truck trying to pull people over and the engine going into a pursuit mode and lights changing from yellow to red and blue sounds like something that belongs in back to the future
yup pretty sure this is BS...... and if its not, good thing im in Iraq..lol
i think its april fools to ==roll
but hang on the state dose need money ;D
and how are you going to get the yellow lenze to change colors, red or blue ==dunno
No worries I always wear my seatbelt. I always have documentation. I never go more than 5mph over. And I will never pull over for a county truck.
I thought it was funny figure id share
but...
at the state police post in Bridgeport they have a suburban that has no lights no markings and is brown Looks nothing like a state police vehicle but it is has flip down lights on the visors