Indiana Mustang GT troopers give out more than 4,600 speeding tickets

Posted: Jul 30, 2008
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As if high-gas prices weren’t snatching enough money out of our wallets – Indiana State Police, driving around in their new 18 2008 Ford Mustang GTs, gave out more than 4,600 speeding tickets in June – an average of seven tickets a day per car.

Supposedly the 18 Mustang GT troopers don’t do anything at all besides chase down speeders all day long. State Police Sgt. Richard W. Myers said that the 18 Mustang GTs “don’t respond to crashes or emergency runs.”

“It’s kind of what the whole (unit) was started for: for extreme speeders, the ones who are looking for our marked cars and think they can outrun us,” Myers said.

Well let’s hope their giving out fuel-surcharges with the tickets.

 

Source: IndyStar (via AutoBlog)


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  • Bobmarley

    that was probably part of the deal with getting the 18 mustang GT's, they have to maintain 16 tickets a day to pay them off along with their 10mpgs!

  • Ivan Gutierrez

    “and they think they can outrun us”

    Whoa buddy, take it easy, the mustang ain't exactly the quickest thing on the road. Besides what's the big deal, we have Mustang GT cop cars all over the city here in El Paso, Texas.

  • wulkin

    The more I see these kind of things, the more I think that they have pathetic ego issues. The police academy sure does know how to teach cops to intimidiate and scare people, not to mention teaching how to use steroids, but unfortunately they don't teach them how to behave morally and philosophically as a human being who have been given that much power.
    I try to respect them to the best of my abilities for maintaining this country as it is, but I really can't… They're just…

    No offense to anyone, Just my idea on these kinda things.

  • Ivan Gutierrez

    “and they think they can outrun us”

    Whoa buddy, take it easy, the mustang ain't exactly the quickest thing on the road. Besides what's the big deal, we have Mustang GT cop cars all over the city here in El Paso, Texas.

  • wulkin

    The more I see these kind of things, the more I think that they have pathetic ego issues. The police academy sure does know how to teach cops to intimidiate and scare people, not to mention teaching how to use steroids, but unfortunately they don't teach them how to behave morally and philosophically as a human being who have been given that much power.
    I try to respect them to the best of my abilities for maintaining this country as it is, but I really can't… They're just…

    No offense to anyone, Just my idea on these kinda things.