More Traffic Tickets in Michigan
Posted on March 4, 2009
Filed Under GENERAL, HORROR STORIES
I received this on the Internet from a colleague. It was on the Internet, so it must be true, right? Anyway, apparently, the State of Michigan is holding a strikeforce in March, looking to raise a bunch of money off of unsuspecting motorists. Of course, I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t going on everywhere, as nearly all State and Local governments are broke. Gee, that’s funny, when my stocks tank, when the phone doesn’t ring, when funds are low…. I slash my spending and conserve. Government, well, they just write a bunch of speeding tickets, or raise taxes. I came across these guys on the Internet, the National Motorists Association. In looking at their mission statement, etc. it seems like a group every motorist should support, as they fight unfair traffic enforcement, red-light cameras, and other examples of government run-amok.
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“Watch your speed in Michigan Gov. Granholm NEEDS some quick cash!
Spring is Coming!
Operation Yellow Jacket
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 nonsense will conclude on April 1.
Driving Ticket fine increase in MI:
Starting on January 15th, 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!!!”
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So, here on July 8, I received nearly this EXACT SAME email, only this time, “Operation Yellow Jacket” is supposed to happen here in Pennsylvania. So, this tells me this is a scam, there is no Operation Yellow Jacket. Perhaps this might be a scam originating with an insurance company. After all, it wouldn’t benefit the State to have people slow down, they want the fine money. About the only ones who would benefit would be insurance companies. Maybe. Who the hell knows? Maybe it’s Obama Bin Laden, sitting in his cave, sending out scam emails. Maybe he’s the one who keeps sending me the one about $20 billion locked in a bank in Kenya, if I will only give him my bank account numbers………