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Passed a fake narcotics checkpoint this morning. Weird.

Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:05 am
Posted by Scoop
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:05 am
On my daily drive to work this morning, passed a sherrif's deputy car with it's lights on parked on the side of the road next to a trailer mounted LED sign that said "Narcotics Check Point Ahead." Went around a curve past the sign and never saw a checkpoint or even a cop along the next ten miles of the highway.

What's the deal with that? Is it possible they set up on the backroads that run parallel to this highway to check people that had gotten off the highway after seeing the sign? Do cops do that?

Never seen a bluff like that.
This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 11:15 am
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:06 am to
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they set up on the backroads that run parallel to this highway to check people that had gotten off the highway after seeing the sign


Welcome to the I-20 corridor
This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 11:07 am
Posted by lsu480
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Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:06 am to
quote:

What's the deal with that? Is it possible they set up on the backroads that run parallel to this highway to check people that had gotten off the highway after seeing the sign? Do cops do that?

Never seen a bluff like that.


I have no idea but that would be a smart move and cops aren't usually that smart.
Posted by dante
Kingwood, TX
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:06 am to
Haha. Yes they do!!!!!
Posted by LSUvegasbombed
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:07 am to
Posted by SabiDojo
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:07 am to
I saw the exact same thing 30 miles outside of Jackson on Hwy 49. It was Memorial Day Weekend. Same sign. Never saw a checkpoint.
Posted by redneck
Los Suenos, Costa Rica
Member since Dec 2003
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:08 am to
quote:

On my daily drive to work this morning, passed a sherrif'so deputy car with it's lights on parked on the side of the road next to a trailer mounted LED sign that said "Narcotics Check Point Ahead. Went around a curve past the sign and never saw a checkpoint or even along the next ten miles of the highway.


They do this on I-49 all the time. If you toss something or make a sudden lane change to exit at the last minute you get pulled over
Posted by MahiFishn
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Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:08 am to
It is my understanding that Narcotics checkpoints are illegal. A lot of times they are done under the disguise of an insurance check point or something else.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:09 am to
It's to make people act suspicious so they can pull them over on some other BS thing and then search their car. They can't just stop you and search your car for no reason.

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This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 11:11 am
Posted by Lsuhoohoo
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:09 am to
They can't legally have a drug checkpoint. They setup the signs as a bluff and then watch for suspicious reactions to the signs which give them "cause" to pull you over
Posted by Motorboat
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:11 am to
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They setup the signs as a bluff and then watch for suspicious reactions to the signs which give them "cause" to pull you over


God this country is so fricked.
Posted by O
Mandeville
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:12 am to
Narcotic check points are not legal. They want you to get nervous/do something sketchy to give them cause to pull you over.


Edit: What Lsuhoohoo said. I didn't realize he beat me to it.
This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 11:13 am
Posted by Hester Carries
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:12 am to
quote:

What's the deal with that? Is it possible they set up on the backroads that run parallel to this highway to check people that had gotten off the highway after seeing the sign? Do cops do that?


Thats pretty much all they do.

If you ask Border Patrol officers that do those inland checkpoints 100s of miles from the border, they will tell you that they never catch illegals AT the checkpoint, and that the checkpoints basically coral suspects into a secluded area where they get nabbed. Im assuming the same works for these.
Posted by TigerDeacon
West Monroe, LA
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:13 am to
quote:

On my daily drive to work this morning, passed a sherrif'so deputy car with it's lights on parked on the side of the road next to a trailer mounted LED sign that said "Narcotics Check Point Ahead. Went around a curve past the sign and never saw a checkpoint or even along the next ten miles of the highway.



I bet there was an exit right in front of the sign or right after it. If you had taken that exit there would have been several LEOs waiting at the end of the exit ramp.
Posted by Scoop
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:14 am to
My thing is those checkpoints are set up that by the time you realize it is there, there is no way off the road between there and the actual checkpoint. This spot had a curve past the LED sign and a nice little right turn that is a country road that runs parallel to the highway.

Admiral Akbar.
This post was edited on 4/14/15 at 11:18 am
Posted by PuntBamaPunt
Member since Nov 2010
10070 posts
Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:15 am to
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I bet there was an exit right in front of the sign or right after it. If you had taken that exit there would have been several LEOs waiting at the end of the exit ramp.


NC used to pull this shite all of the time.
Posted by Tiger Ryno
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Member since Feb 2007
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:15 am to
can we set up a thug POS checkpoint near these places where mobs of HS thugs attack innocent people at a gas station?
Posted by sharkfhin
Over der
Member since Sep 2008
2339 posts
Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:15 am to
If u try to turn around or stop, an unmarked car hiding and watching will stop u and ask to check ur shite...this is what I heard...
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9323 posts
Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:16 am to
quote:

can we set up a thug POS checkpoint near these places where mobs of HS thugs attack innocent people at a gas station?



racist
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20869 posts
Posted on 4/14/15 at 11:16 am to
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If you toss something or make a sudden lane change to exit at the last minute you get pulled over


I pity the poor person that just happens to get off at the next exit.

I felt like before we were slowly crawling towards Soviet style "let me see your papers"... This is a brisk walk.
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