Get ready to be stopped for 2 mph over

[Jerk]

http://newsok.com/article/1795350/?template=home/main

My apologies if you're not registered with the Oklahoman. The article basically says that OHP is broke and they need alot of money, or some troopers will be furloughed. I bet they come up with an ambitious new campaign to stop speeders.

[Sooner_Bob]

Whoa . . . $4 mill in the hole?

That's not good.

Does any of the money from vehicle registrations or taxes go to the OHP?

[afs]

i imagine they'll propose to make up the difference from the lottery fund. that should be fun to watch.

[royalfan5]

What you guys need is a big drug pipeline like I-80 is. The weekly huge drug busts and resulting forefitted property is huge help for our state patrol.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Well we have those drugs too, the problem is that every town like say Slaughterville, Caney, Stringtown, and numerous other places have like Max 1000 people and have like 20 cops. Slaughterville has at least 30. Go to Stringtown, They have a firebird, an SUV, and a camaro....I mean hell that town has maybe Max 500 people. If they would cut these small towns off from just setting up and just drilling people, they could get in on some of that money.

[royalfan5]

I think we have far fewer cops than that. In Nebraska, we just don't go to nuts over law and order I guess. The county I grew up in had 8-10 cops at most for 8,000ish people combined between the county seats police and the sheriff's department. I think most people figured that was plenty.

[proud gonzo]

*sigh* yeah--Iggy just got a speeding ticket, and another guy i know got one today as well.

[boomersooner28]

Hhmmm, what about those credit cards that the Troopers were issued that had our tax dollars on them? No mention of that.

[SCOUT]

The problem with ANY government is that the answer is to raise revenue. Cutting costs seems to be an abstract concept.

[AlbqSooner]

If they would cut these small towns off from just setting up and just drilling people, they could get in on some of that money.
Why do you hate the War on Drugs?

[Mjcpr]

I thought the state was awash in extry tax revenues?

[Hamhock]

What you guys need is a big drug pipeline like I-80 is. The weekly huge drug busts and resulting forefitted property is huge help for our state patrol.


I've always been told that I-35 is a huge drug corridor. It goes from like Antarctica to Canada or something. They've always got folks pulled over. Once, I watched them tear a guy's car down while I was on a ride at frontier city.

Maybe those are all sheriff's deputies??

[jeremy885]

I had a coworker who was stopped by an El Reno cop for doing 4 over the speed limit back in the 90's. She fought it and when the judge saw the speed he dismissed it and indirectly told the cop he was stupid for writing it.

[Harry Beanbag]

In Scottsdale, they have cameras and radars on one of the freeways. They're set up so that you get a ticket if you're going 11 mph over the speed limit. In the first month of operation, the city has written 4300 citations at $156 a pop. By my calculations that's nearly $700,000 in one month. :eek:

[OU Adonis]

I got ticketed for doing 27 in a 25 in the village, and it wasn't even a school zone. It was a 4 lane divided highway right by the police station.

[Taxman71]

In Scottsdale, they have cameras and radars on one of the freeways. They're set up so that you get a ticket if you're going 11 mph over the speed limit. In the first month of operation, the city has written 4300 citations at $156 a pop. By my calculations that's nearly $700,000 in one month. :eek:

So do you mail them a picture of your check with the ticket?

[Harry Beanbag]

So do you mail them a picture of your check with the ticket?


I don't think they would see the humor in that.

[12]

Maybe they could make money standing in busy intersections with a shoe.

[usmc-sooner]

I grew up in a rural area. We had so many cops in a town of about 6500. We had about 4 HP, one had a brand new OHP trans-am, we had city cops, Sheriffs, deputies, BIA cops. It almost seemed like we had more cops than people. We had this one OHP that patroled a Highway that not many people traveled. He was the one in the TA. He'd write all the farmers up for every stupid thing. At the end of his shift he'd head home at about 90 every single day it seemed like.

One time I was painting my dad's rent house, on the edge of town and there were 3 OHP parked in a gas station. Every now and then they'd get someone for speeding but not doing much else. Well the renter came out and told me to watch this. He had called into (I'm not sure) but they all started heading out and he was happy as can be.

[12]

And then what happened?

(Is it just me?)

[Taxman71]

Someone call Paul Harvey for the rest of the story.

Sounds like USMC lives on the west side of Verden or the east side of Kingston.

[Condescending Sooner]

I thought the state was awash in extry tax revenues?


Yes, but unfortunately nobody gets any of it except education (mostly) and Corrections (little bit).

[mdklatt]

It's a good thing they gave that tax money back before the state ran out of money...wait a minute....

[usmc-sooner]

And then what happened?

(Is it just me?)

nothing happened they just left, I was just pointing out that there were 3 OHP in one spot, in a small rural city, doing what the city cops are doing. The guy called someone who I'm sure radioed them and told them to get moving.

sorry it's the best I had.

[12]

Wow! Kick ***!!!

[12]

:texan:

[Stoop Dawg]

The problem with ANY government is that the answer is to raise revenue. Cutting costs seems to be an abstract concept.

Word.

[jeremy885]

The problem with ANY wife is that the answer is to raise revenue. Cutting costs seems to be an abstract concept.

word.