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Old Jul 18, 2006 | 4:18 pm
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Nachtswerg
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Rio Rancho, NM
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If you live in Albuquerque, beware that the soccer-cops are moving out of the school zones! What's a 'soccer-cop'? It's an unmarked van equipped with radar and camera that sits on the side of the road. As part of the speeding crackdown related to school zones, the SCV (Soccer-Cop Vans) would snag both speeders AND folks who passed buses with flashing lights on. 1 mph over the school zone speed limit will cost you $100!!

Oh, and works like the traffic light cams. They don't stop you at the time of the infraction. You just get a nice little citation in the mail.

Now, since the program has been so successful around schools, it's being pushed out to both residential neighborhoods and to interstates 25 and 40. So, if you're driving through the 'Big-I', be sure to watch that gas pedal
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