this is from 2005 and false:
Speeding Ticket Frenzy
Claim: State police are about to launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy in:
New Jersey
Tri-Cities area, Tennessee
Dallas (or all of Texas)
Orange County, California
Detroit (or all of Michigan)
Honolulu, Hawaii
Pennsylvania
Status: False.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2005]
New Jersey 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-295 north and south
1-95 (Jersey Turnpike) north and south
1-80 east and west
I-287 north and south
I-78 east and west
I-195 east and west
1-280 east and west
Rt. 130 north and south
Garden State Parkway north and south
Now 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 minutes. They have issued 30 brand new unmarked Crown Victoria cruisers and they are bringing all their part timers on full time. If you work in New Jersey, New York, or CT, you must take one of there interstates, routes, or parkways. It’s up to you how fast you are doing when they do. I was told 101.5 FM confirmed all of this.
So be safe and don’t forget speeding tickets are on you.
You’ve been warned.
Origins: We first encountered this warning in mid-May 2005 when it came to us as an e-mail purporting to detail information gleaned from “a State trooper in south Jersey.” At that time the crackdown was said to be scheduled to begin on Monday, May 2, 2005.
Towards the end of June 2005, the e-mailed warning reappeared. (It had gone dormant for a few weeks — it had been at least that long since we’d seen it in the snopes.com inbox.) This second version was identical to the first except for one small yet important detail: the “as of Monday, May 2” was elided from the beginning of the advisory, rendering the updated version’s opening line as “New Jersey will launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy” and providing readers with no inkling of when the enhanced traffic enforcement would supposedly take place. (As noted below, subsequent versions of the e-mail have altered the locations of the alleged crackdown to areas in Tennessee,
California, and Texas.)
No news outlets reported a 30-day round-up of speeders in New Jersey in May 2005. Even if there had really been such a month-long rousting of Garden State leadfoots, given that May 2 kick-off date, it would already have come and gone by the time motorists started receiving the message quoted above. (Of course, that doesn’t mean anyone should now assume the listed routes to be completely trooper-free.)
