Posted: 4/21/2008 6:55:36 AM EDT
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I know one of you guys can answer this. I drive through the city of Suwanee every day going to and from work and I've been watching something puzzling for a few years now. The city of Suwanee PD (traffic enforcement?) will pick a really congested intersection during rush hour (morning or night), park the cruiser in a near by parking lot and just stand by the side of the road and "pull people over". People are pretty much gridlocked so the LEO's will either stand behind phone poles, at the edge of the road or like this morning, directly in traffic on the dotted yellow line. As far as I can tell they just point to a driver and motion them over into a nearby gas station parking lot for some early morning shake down. Do they just pick people at random, on the cell phone, no seat belt, what? probable cause? (needed at all?) Is it the "no seat belt" pull over and show me "ze papers", get a ticket and have a nice day or what? Disclaimer: This is not a troll post, I'm genuinely curious as to what's up, I've never seen this anywhere but Suwanee and it's pretty unique. |
| My ex-wife got a ticket when we were moving to Cali in '85. We were driving thru the hinterlands of Colorado in a U-Haul towing our car. Going up the big hills at ~45 and down the hills in the low 70s. Speed limit back then was 55. State Patrol officer walked out into the middle of the interstate and waved EVERYBODY over. There were at least 20 cops there writing tickets. Everybody got one. Funny thing was that it was only $32 ($2/mile over), but we had to pay cash 'cause they didn't have an extradition agreement w/ Cali, but they did w/ GA. Weird. If we'd been headed back to GA, we coulda mailed 'em a check. State Trooper drove me back to the nearest town in his car, ~10 - 15 miles away. He wrote down the serial numbers of the biils and made me put them in the envelope, seal it and then stick it in the mailbox. Can't imagine that taking 30+ minutes of his time was worth a $32 fine, even back then. |
birdbarian, that's more about proper handling of cash fines (glad i don't have to handle that!) and trying to be even-handed with those from non-compact states. hey, it coulda been worse. you could have been made to post a cash bond after being booked through the local hoosegow.  google "traffic law non-compact states" for more info. |
Suwanee has been running radar in hills where it is illegal for them to do so. At least one of my friends went to court with the county paperwork showing the hill in question to be more than a 15 percent downgrade. Case dismissed! |
Were I a cop, the ones I would really get are the morons who do not run headlights in the rain or fog. Before someone chimes in, not running headlights in foul weather endangers more than just yourself. |
we do a lot of that when we can get time scheduled on the Halliburton Weather Machine(tm).  but seriously, i have made more than a few individuals upset when stopped for running without headlights. ...too dang dangerous, and they know it... |
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I got busted on the way to work on Suwanee Damn Road. There was one sitting in the median just before North Gwinnett High. I came by and the one standing in the middle of the road radioed to the other officer that were sitting at the curch and they flagged me down. The one up side is that when I went to pay the ticket, (2.5 hours late) I discovered that The City of Suwanee employes a nice looking female officer. |
Knowing now what I didn't know then, I woulda just left her in the local hoosegow. 
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