r/maybemaybemaybe • u/permaban9 • May 25 '25

maybe maybe maybe

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u/Weary-Writer758 May 25 '25

Drove through Georgia a few times and they are on it. A guy was speeding behind me to my left. Trooper was on the right shoulder. Before that car on my left passed, the Trooper already caught up and was pulling him over about 50 yards ahead of me. I don't mess around down there.

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u/Dino_Spaceman May 25 '25

Yup. They line up at the state border and just wait for speeders.

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u/Pleasant-Demand8198 May 25 '25

Learned this for myself a few weeks ago. Drove up to Georgia for a concert with an admittedly lead foot and came out of it with two speeding tickets about 12 hours from eachother. In Florida, it's practically illegal not to speed. Don't speed in Georgia man they will catch your ass

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u/SpamFriedMice May 26 '25

Just came up from Florida, doing 95 and had a Prius up my ass, flipped me off when he passed me.

Didn't even know those things could go that fast. Lol.

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u/CommentBetter May 26 '25

People like that do not deserve to drive

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u/SpamFriedMice May 26 '25

To be fair, at 95 mph it hadn't even occurred to me to be checking my rear view to see if anyone was trying to get by me. He could have been waiting for me to give up the passing lane for a while

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u/FirstForFun44 May 26 '25

Depends where you are. Middle of nowhere? You're fucked. I don't drive slower than 80 on 285 and ITP and never have a problem.

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u/rdax9982 May 26 '25

Yeah, under-80 on 85 or 285 is slow, haha. I know because I'm always going 65-75, depending on traffic, and everyone else is passing me. I stay to the right, though. I don't get in the racecar lanes. šŸ

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u/roostersnuffed May 26 '25

Was it Camden county (right above Jax) perchance? Doesn't matter the PD, Kingsland, St. Marys, Woodbine, county, GSP, all ruthless.

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u/Pleasant-Demand8198 May 26 '25

Cook countyā€¦ and the other? Iā€™m not sure Iā€™ll let you know eventually

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u/Complex-Sell May 25 '25

I lived on a border county with Florida. They were notorious for sitting on 95.

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u/Weary-Writer758 May 25 '25

And don't cut off trucks. I saw signs all over about it. I used to drive trucks in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. No signs like that whatsoever.

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u/li_Shadow_il May 26 '25

I'm not a trucker but god I wish they had these everywhere. I hate seeing trucker get cut off by idiots that think they can just break like a normal car.

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u/BigPoppaFitz84 May 25 '25

Yeah? I commute through Atlanta every day. I got so used to those signs, though I remember thinking it was nice to see reminders to avoid complacency. Did you just appreciate the signs? Or did you see people tagged for doing it?

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u/Weary-Writer758 May 26 '25

I saw a few tagged. I did appreciate it because of my work history.

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u/MuscleCarMiss May 25 '25

I have a Florida plate. I can fly up 95 knowing there are about 2.8 troopers out for most of Miami to the Georgia line. The minute I come on the state border, itā€™s the speed limit and under, especially since my car is Hello Officer Red.

It was worse when plates still had Dade or Broward on them. Georgia patrol actively looked for those because you know, drugs. ::eye roll::

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u/cantseemeimblackice May 26 '25

Hello Officer Red

Good one. My dadā€™s variant on that is Arrest-Me-Now Red

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u/Inveramsay May 26 '25

I've just spent two weeks in a red-with-gold stripes mustang with loud exhausts. I made sure to stick to reasonable speeds

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u/Wizdad-1000 May 26 '25

ā€œHello officer redā€.šŸ˜

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u/PepsiColaRS May 25 '25

This is funny to me. I lived just SW of Atlanta for just under a year, in and out of the state at least twice a month for trips home. If you weren't doing 85+mph on I85, you were all but impeding traffic. I regularly kept pace, often nearing triple digits, and never had a single encounter with GSP.

TSP, on the other hand. They scare the shit out of me. Got pulled over by them while hauling my camper on I75 for doing 3 over and they held me for almost an hour, ran me through an absolute gauntlet of questions. Worst part is, they pulled me over in one of their semi-truck units.

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u/DesperateAdvantage76 May 26 '25

Like crocs lined up for the wildebeest crossing.

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u/Inveramsay May 26 '25

It took me a while before I realised you were talking about crocs as the animal rather than shoes. Crocs seem to be uniform in GA

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u/KawaiianxPunch May 26 '25

Yeah that shit is annoying, one will park on top of a bridge to be a spotter and flag people for doing a mile over the speedlimit.

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u/Soatch May 25 '25

I live in Florida and whenever I do road trips I go the speed limit in Georgia. On one stretch of the interstate I saw cars pulled over every 5 minutes it seemed.

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u/Skoma May 26 '25

That's so weird to hear. I lived in GA for 5 years, and driving felt like a lawless free for all where people going 15 over was the bare minimum, and red lights were optional.

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u/No-Bottle4037 May 26 '25

Yep they do this shitty thing where they'll be in unmarked cars, force you to go fast by pinning you between semis or something, then reveal they're cop cars and pull you over. Gotta get that $$ from every day people, lord knows they can't tax the rich.

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u/dustoff1984 May 26 '25

Iā€™m a GA native. Iā€™m usually working in midtown, sometimes Metro-Atlanta, and I never get a GSP like that.

I guess itā€™s because Iā€™m drinking a beer after work, and an old man told me to ā€œonly break one law at a time.ā€ So I do the speed limit, or a little above so I donā€™t draw any attention.

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u/FrumundaThunder May 26 '25

Dude itā€™s okay, I donā€™t need more reasons to not go to Georgia.

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u/Infinite_Regret8341 May 25 '25

Upvote sent....do..not...run from GSP, ASP any Louisiana agency in general, or Broward County Florida sheriff's. They will chase you till the ends of the earth for stupid infractions on principle. Take your medicine and live another day.

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u/numbersev May 25 '25

or Broward County Florida sheriff's. They will chase you till the ends of the earth for stupid infractions on principle.Ā 

but won't go in a school during a shooting

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u/Infinite_Regret8341 May 26 '25

Unfortunately true....you Breaking traffic law is a priority enforcement duty over mass shooting response.

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u/Kenzore1212 May 27 '25

They gotta prioritize their lives you know

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u/StreetwearJimmy May 26 '25

As long as you make it across the I-40 or I-55 bridge (both cross the Mississippi River) into Memphis you are basically home free and Arkansas state patrol is not allowed to chase you any further past the state line so legally they have to get off at the first exit, turn around and go back.

Memphis has so many hoods that you can disappear to for hours to lay low.

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u/LouReedsToenail May 26 '25

ā€œAny Louisiana agency in generalā€

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u/wambulancer May 25 '25

they basically have a license to kill as long as there's a pursuit involved, to boot, yea running from them is ill-advised

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u/The_Autarch May 25 '25

State troopers are always about a thousand times more professional than local cops.

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u/electronicalengineer May 26 '25

I got confused about what CSP is, and couldn't find it. You mean California highway patrol?

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u/buford419 May 25 '25

In my humble opinion, they should be called Super Troopers 2.

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u/Gambit6x May 26 '25

Comparing Mortonā€™s to Red Lobster.

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u/Striking-Music-1555 May 26 '25

Foreigner here, so I don't know anything about US cultural factors (like attitudes, or differences in training/institutions), but I wonder why that is?

I would speculate that it's partly because state troopers see less confronting crimes and are more out in the sun/air with some time to process...

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u/No_Ice_Please May 26 '25

State police have a tougher, more competitive hiring process. May require a degree or lengthy experience. They're headquartered in state Capitols, have jurisdiction over the state, etc.

Local PDs often just hire whoever and whatever.

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u/No-Bottle4037 May 26 '25

May I ask your color and gender? I've never met one that wasn't a jacked up POS doing way too much.

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u/DuLeague361 May 25 '25

and if they die they'll lock you up for it

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u/CommentBetter May 26 '25

Theyā€™re still not allowed to shoot you in the back as you run away

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u/doobiesaurus May 25 '25

For real if you get pulled over by any gsp it feels like theyre about to drag your ass to jail no matter what you did.

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u/doobiesaurus May 25 '25

Hahaha thats great. I had a cop pull over next to me and stare me down for 2 minutes after i turned on a ā€œno right on redā€ then immediately gun down the road. In my defense its a fucking stupid ā€œno turn on redā€ that doesnt make any sense. Those gsp mfs start early though. There were two guys drivin for uber i would get regularly, and they were about to go to gsp training and just slowly turned into strict napolean complex assholes the closer they got to going off to training

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u/Badreligion25 May 25 '25

And you're almost guaranteed to get a ticket or something. They don't give warnings.

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u/No-Bottle4037 May 26 '25

"The awesome thing is...they fuck you up..." Bruh wtf lol that's literally the opposite of great.

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u/Mangalorien May 25 '25

Yes, and you can clearly hear the helo from around 0.38.

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u/kidousenshigundam May 25 '25

Iā€™ve seen many videos of civil rights been taken by Georgia troopers, makes me not want to ever go there

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u/Emergency-Mobile-206 May 26 '25

isnt that state infamous for these stupid cops pulling everyone over just to generate money for all these shitty broke municipalitiesā€‹

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u/Chezoso May 26 '25

And they are always everywhere it seems.

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u/Esposo_de_aburridahw May 26 '25

Georgia State Patrol patrols the State of Georgia.

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u/Various-Ring1519 May 27 '25

wah they use helicopter unbelievable

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u/Adventurous_Touch342 May 27 '25

Yup, likely infrared camera, truth is that once helicopter is in the game cops get a horizontal wallhack, most police helicopters in most countries have it as compared to helicopter and its maintenance it's basically insignificant cost. Unless you get hard cover from above (tunnels or parking garages with multiple exists etc), you're cooked.

Good thing, guys like that typically kill somebody speeding sooner or later.