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!!!

 

Wow. The worst part of it all is that the cops are all going to have bad attitudes because of the canceled vacation.

 

i got this via txt yesterday!! watch out...

 

ummm this was a hoax

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2009...t-any-rate.htm

and even in the link that was originally provided it says under Status that its false.

 

Lol.

 

Yea, I was skeptical at the modified DOT trucks with the magic light bars... still, that would be a pretty incredible way to rake in some dough.

 

The light bar deal wouldn't be so difficult to pull off.. All they need to do is use LED ones.

 

Yea, not the difficulty stuff, but that's an expensive thing to buy for a fleet of vehicles that would be in service for only a month.

 

FAIL! Linking to a snopes article no less... haha

 

i did link it to snopes

 

lol these things come around so much... i tend not to believe mass texts.

 

those would have to be some REALLY heavilly modified engines to move those things.

and even if this was real...why would they leak what they are doing?

 

It's all a government conspiracy o_O

 

lol i was worried for a minute