possible ticketing frenzy in PA?

[jen.]

Hey guys, I'm not really sure if this is rumor or what but I was sent this by a friend of mine on facebook, so just for precautionary reasons I figured I would give everyone else a heads up (just in case it's true)! I honestly don't know the validity of it. Sorry!



"Hello All,
A really good contact sent this to me, so I wanted to let all know about this situation.

Starting today, Pennsylvania 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 9 main intersections and highways. They are the following:

I-279 north and south
I-376 east and west
I-76 east and west
I-80 east and west
I-79 north and south
I-70 east and west
PA-60
PA-66
US-22

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 western Pennsylvania, you will probably take one of these highways. It's up to you how fast you are going when they clock you.
KDKA and WDVE confirmed all of this. So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you.

Driving Ticket fine increase in PA:

Starting on August 15th, the price of a ticket for violation of PA Law 39:3-29 (failure to show your driver's license, registration, or insurance card at the time you are stopped) is going 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!!!"



slow down, this means you too, dan

[Kevin]

They do this from time to time. Thank god I don't travel any of those roads lol. Maybe 76 once in a blue moon.

[Raven18940]

I feel like I've read this exact chain letter with different info before.

[Loserkidwac]

Originally Posted by Raven18940

I feel like I've read this exact chain letter with different info before.

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

Claim: State police are about to launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy in:

* New Jersey
* Tri-Cities area, Tennessee (or all of Tennessee)
* Dallas (or all of Texas)
* Orange County, California
* Detroit (or all of Michigan)
* Honolulu, Hawaii
* Pittsburgh (or all of Pennsylvania)
* South Carolina
* Oklahoma
* Louisville, Kentucky (or all of Kentucky)

Status: False.

[jdm free]

um im still gonna drive like a bitch when i come home next weekend just to make sure

[MTuning]

wow since when did they start ticketing people speeding?....

[Roto]

Um, 76 is always a trooper heavy area...

[Kevin]

Idk. I've had my Mom's boss tell me something about this last summer, and they both heard it from a state trooper.

[CHAOS]

meh, i drive like a grandma anyway.

[malloyboy1]

ive heard rumor of this from a potstown cop

[namdoogwerdna]

Originally Posted by CHAOS

meh, i drive like a grandma anyway.

true. jen.'s civic can smoke yo azz

[CarbonIS]

there was a thread like this last year. It's like a chain letter deal.

[Vypurr]

This thread comes up every few months. Nothing more than rumors.

[Roto]

police disinformation.

[NOPSTNS]

well.....i dunno about exact roads bumping up police force. but they do massacre certain highways once a month...

about 2 weeks ago i was road testing a car at work, driving down route 1 in langhorne, by oxford valley. and i saw 4 cop cars on the side of the road....i looked southbound and there were 3 other cop cars on the side of the road.....3 or 4 of these cars had ppl pulled over....literally 2 seconds after my rbain registered cop activity there i saw flashin lights in my mirror....

after taking my 120 dollar fine i asked the officier about the behavior, she said once a month 6-7 of them will pick some random highway and just go gun crazy blasting anyone speeding, its a complete trap. they do it on purpose.

so while the whole chain letter thing may be false...i have been prey to a massive police attack.

[JSpecV03]

Originally Posted by Roto

Um, 76 is always a trooper heavy area...

476 in both directions is HEAVLY polluted with cops like 24/7 they sit in all the cut throws and on the bridge going over the schyull river going north at the end of the bridge they have a spot they sit back infront of a tree. you cant see them at all when your coming north.
the state cops just seem like there only there to generate revenue for the state it seems like.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by JSpecV03

476 in both directions is HEAVLY polluted with cops like 24/7 they sit in all the cut throws and on the bridge going over the schyull river going north at the end of the bridge they have a spot they sit back infront of a tree. you cant see them at all when your coming north.
the state cops just seem like there only there to generate revenue for the state it seems like.

Wow I didn't know they hid behind the end of the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, I don't head up that way much but thanks for the tip lol

[ThatTealHatch]

i was just told this last night, weird thats its posted up... how accurate is this claim i mean cops can do what they want and it does seem that i see someone pulled over at least once every 10 mins...

[rickhigginshtbr]

I've noticed Upper Moreland police sitting at blair mill + 611 everyday during the rush hours... usually getting people blowing the red, but I'm 99% sure they were stopping people for tint this past Friday morning... saw atleast 5 cars with 35% or darker pulled over in a 1 1/2 hour span.

[Xavier]

Coatesville was on fire with police activity this weekend. I drove through the city a number of times and EACH time I saw at least two cars pulled over. I even saw some people get arrested!