Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Email Warns of Dallas Texas Speed Traps is Hoax
Questionable e-mail warns of speed trapsBy Traci ShurleyStar-Telegram Staff WriterThe caution it urges might not be a bad idea, but an e-mail describing a "speeding ticket frenzy" in the Metroplex smells like a hoax.
The message popped up in inboxes last week. It warns that the Dallas Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety are launching a 30-day crackdown on speeders, with extra troopers and officers expected to generate $9 million in fines. Familiar freeways like Interstate 20 and Texas 360 are listed as targets.
That would be news to Sgt. Gil Cerda, a Dallas police spokesman.
"I heard about it yesterday. But I don't know anything about any speeding-ticket frenzy," Cerda said Saturday.
A Web site devoted to urban myths, www.snopes.com, says that nearly identical e-mails have circulated in California, New Jersey and Tennessee since May.
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