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Old Sep 1, 2010, 5:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Herb687
This type of thing isn't confined to the southern border. Happens up north too. Saw one of these over on the southbound side of I-87 heading towards Lake Placid, NY and then got stopped at a different one on some country backroad heading SW out of Lake Placid towards Utica.
And the I-87 checkpoint pretty much went away after 2 major accidents in 7 months including one in which a tractor-trailor ran into the line of stopped cars resulting in 4 fatalities.
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