GA speeding ticket FRENZY alert

[Matt]

For all of you living in GA or visiting……..



Dateline: AJC 07/19/2010


Starting Aug 1, Georgia 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. The rest to help with dwindling budgets. There will be 50 state troopers on duty at all times patrolling the 7 main intersections and highways. They are the following:
I-20 east and west
I-75 north and south
I-85 north and south
I-675 north and south
GA-985 north and south
GA-316 east and west
GA-400 north and south
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 are bringing in all of their part timers on full time. If you work in the Atlanta area, you will probably take one of these highways. It's up to you how fast you are going when they clock you.
WSB and WXIA & CBS confirmed all of this. So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you.
Look for city and county governments to adopt similar polices in the near future.

[enigmaT120]

Guck. Are they on backroads too? Like the song says, "I'm a backroads man!" Maybe I don't remember lyrics perfectly.

[The Veg]

This is the third place on the web where I've had to debunk this.

See link: http://www.ajc.com/news/another-urban-m ... 77141.html

However, there is this: http://www.times-herald.com/Local/Summe ... wn-1128644

[lrz]

To those of us in New York, y'all are just copycatting-the policy of "revenue enhancement" via sucking already overburdened taxpaying motorists dry was put in place here more than one year ago. Personally, I view it as a form of canabalism-we are eating ourselves alive...

[The Veg]

More liberal fiction at Snopes?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/speeding.asp

yes, I've seen a lot of enforcement on 85, but it's always big trucks they have pulled over. The 100 Days Of Summer H.E.A.T. campaign is real too, but it is NOT the as-reported 'Frenzy.'

More...

http://www.examiner.com/x-1179-Atlanta- ... -be-a-hoax

This link is particularly informative:
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story ... 77&catid=3

S'more:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/automo ... eorgia.htm

Straight from the proverbial horse's mouth:
http://dps.georgia.gov/00/article/0,208 ... 12,00.html

[SteveD]

All sounds like biznis as usual for us lot here in Victoria, Oz! $142 for 5kph over! $172 if fog lights are on when no fog!

[lrz]

What I am noticing as an effect of the increased traffic patrols here is a similarly increased paranoia on he part of drivers who: are traveling in "packs" on the Thruway/Parkway with no single driver wanting to be the lead vehicle and therefore constantly rotating lanes; a line of cars hitting the brakes before a curve where(SURPRISE!!) there will probably be a radar patrol car, regaining speed only to hit 'em again around the next bend-forget traffic flow!
I'm also noticing more tailgaiting - sort of "I want to pass you, and normally would, but don't want the ticket"-ironically a ticketable infraction as well...

[Matt]

Sorry for the late post on this.
I wonder about the FRENZY i reported on too. I didn't go up & down all of those interstates & when I was driving I din't hardly notice a thing. Business as usual ass hauling. Now Labor day weekend was brutal on Friday. the troopers were out in force with people pulled over getting they're cars ransacked...looking for drugs. Make the whole state look like a bunch of pigs where I come from. If they weren't profiling I'll eat my helmet. the worst is what pulling people over does on a busy interstate. Traffic reacts badly causing awful slowdowns & dangerous conditions.
Actually I miss the days when fuel prices went through the roof here in the states. Remember? no more harsh patrol tactics, just park yerself in an obvious spot & wait for some idiot to speed past. I LOVED it! the roads felt....safe again:o)

[gspd]

QUOTAS:
Give me a 'civilian' car, and a badge, and I could easily write a ticket every 10 minutes.
The roads are full of idiots but they all seem to smarten up a bit when a cop is around,

I'd write tickets for unsafe lane changes, tailgating, running red lights, etc.
None would be for speeding, except for the the obvious nut case slaloming through rush hour traffic (like me).
I might write somebody up for talking on the phone or texting if I saw he was an oblivious putz.
Few drivers go exactly the speed limit around here, everybody goes a bit over (10-20km/h?) in normal traffic flow.
I don't usually see many 'dangerous' speeders on any given day, I can't even recall the last time somebody kept pace or passed me at over 100mph. (riding buddies excluded)

UNMARKED CARS:
'Traffic cop cars are rarely inconspicuous, even if unmarked.
I can usually spot them a mile away. I'd bet most of you guys can too.

When I worked at a VW-Audi dealership, our used car department had a lucrative deal with the RCMP.
At any given time they had up to a dozen of our used beaters on the road, some they'd keep for weeks, others for only a day or two. They'd put their own special plates on them so if another cop called the plate # in for suspicious or illegal behavior they would get a "Leave 'm alone, he's one of us"' reply from the dispatcher.

They could have so many different 'civilian' cars surveying a suspect that he would never see a cop, even when almost surrounded by them.
Nowadays if they want to follow somebody they stick a magnetized GPS unit on the guys car and track it.
It appears they don't need a warrant to do this,
Apparently, they can also track you through boomerang, On-Star, etc without a warrant.