Massive crackdown on speeders!

Only the gullible could believe something so farfetched.Supposedly there#39;s a month-long ticketing blitz coming in February, with the goal of raising $9 million for the state – minus $1 million in overtime for the 50 troopers who#39;ll be on duty 24/7 busting drivers. Some of these troopers will be driving in “brand new unmarked Crown Victoria cruisers,” and they#39;ll supposedly be writing one ticket every ten minutes. Even part-timers are being called in. Or so claims an e-mail making the rounds, claiming the state plans “a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy.”Skeptical readers like David Stoyka of Grosse Pointe Farms figured something was up and asked me about it.Please, please do yourself, your friends, your neighbors, coworkers, enemies and anyone else a huge, wonderful favor: Don#39;t forward that e-mail.If you receive it, hit reply and demand the person who sent it to you send another note to all the people he or she just e-mailed, apologizing for falling for this garbage, for not reading it and thinking even remotely in a critical way, and for cluttering up innocent inboxes.The e-mail is a hoax.The Michigan State Police do not have 30 new cruisers. In these economic times? Ha!MSP spokeswoman Shanon Akans said other falsehoods are equally obvious. For one, the state police don#39;t have part-time troopers. She also said the department doesn#39;t use unmarked cars for traffic patrols or enforce traffic as a means to raise revenue.“That#39;s simply not how we operate,” Akans told me. “It wouldn#39;t be January if this thing didn#39;t make its rounds. This is actually the third year now, if I recall correctly, that this has come out in January or February. It is completely false.”So can we stop forwarding it along now, please?