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'Speeding Ticket Frenzy' in Dallas, Texas

Netlore Archive: Email hoax claims a 'speeding ticket frenzy' is about to take place in Dallas, Texas, with police and state troopers handing out tickets every 10 minutes to collect more fines and increase the state's revenues.

Description: Email hoax
Circulating since: Jan. 2006 (this version)
Status: False


Email example contributed by Debbi V., Jan. 20, 2006:

Dallas and the state of Texas 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 and Dallas Police officers overtime. There will be 50 police officers and state troopers in the Metroplex on duty at all times patrolling the 10 main intersections and highways.

They are the following:

I-35E north and south

I-20 east and west

75 north and south

635 entire loop

114 east and west

183 east and west

175 north and south

North Dallas Tollway north and south

George Bush Turnpike east and west

360 north and south

Now 5 mph above the limit can justify a ticket and every officer 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 Dallas or the surrounding areas you must take one of these interstates, routes, or parkways. It's up to you how fast you are doing when they do. WBAP-820 AM confirmed all of this yesterday morning.

So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you.


Analysis: Traci Shurley of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram writes that the above message "smells like a hoax." She's right. It's a slightly revised version of a forwarded email stating that a "speeding ticket frenzy" is taking place in Orange County, California, which in turn was ripped off from a 2005 hoax claiming that the same thing was happening in New Jersey. False in every case.


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Sources and further reading:

Questionable Email Warns of Speed Traps
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 January 2006

Phony Email Warns of Freeway Speed Trap
Orange County Register, 19 January 2006


Last updated: 01/24/06


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