Speeding Ticket Frenzy

[ethirtysex]

Hey everyone, my friend brought this to my attention and I thought it was both important to pass on and interesting in a very unfortunate sort of way.

Heads Up to the Portland group--The following is an e mail that was sent to us about a speeding ticket frenzie in the Portland Area.
Portland will launch a 21 day speeding Frenzy! The state of Oregon estimates there will be 9 million made in speeding tickets.
1 million dollars will go to paying troopers overtime. There will be 40 OSP troopers and local police officers on duty at all times

patrolling these areas.

- I 5 North and south from Woodburn to Delta park

- I 84 Eastbound and Westbound from downtown to I205
- I 205 Northbound from I5 to Hwy 84*
*this is where they anticipate highest volume of tickets.
- US26 WB and EB Sunset Hwy from the tunnel to Cornell
- Hwy217 from Washington Square to I5
- Hwy18 from Hwy99 to Grand Rhone

***Only 5mph or over can justify a ticket and state troopers are instructed to pull over anyone going 5mph over the limit***



OSP has issued 15 new unmarked Crown Victoria cruisers for this 21 day period. This new ticket revenue will help close the budget crisis they are facing. This "ticket frenzy" has been confirmed by news stations in Portland. Look out speeders! Effective now!

Watch your speed!

Lt. Darryl Wrisley
Patrol Division
Lake Oswego Police Department
503-635-0250

[urbanlife]

I always love it when they say speeding tickets are to enforce your safety, when in reality it is all just to boost money for the state.

[MarkDaMan]

Good looking out ethirtysex...huh ethirtySEX? what does that mean?

Anyway, thanks for the info!

[Pearl_Steve]

This isn't true. It has been floating around the internet as various forwards since 2005. Someone just decided to apply it to portland recently.

If you want full documentation see:

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