This happened at 10 AM on July 7, If you ask me a little overkill and the wrong time of the day, went from 10 untill 2. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4k8HMetWQ4]Tail of the Dragon Sobriety Check 7/7/2012 - YouTube[/ame]
Wow, sure is a lot of police officers there! DUI checkpoint? Seems to me they might have been looking for someone(s) in particular.
I agree with Run4. I'm betting it is a "sobriety check point", only to make a legal search of the car(s) they are looking for. This is done all the time, to avoid the "fruits of the poisonous tree" as the LEO's say. Jim
WOW....! Didn't seem to be a lot of "sobriety" checking.....lol More like a nice little lunch break for the LEO's
Yeah, a road with 300+ turns, just where a drunk is going to drive on his way home at 10 am.........as Bill Cosby was wont to say.......rrrrrrriiiiigggggghhhhhhhtttttt
They were checking for donuts....must have been a shortage....but without any MoM's driving the dragon, fat chance that they are going to confiscate any:donut1::donut1::donut1::biggrin5:
I'll bet ya that after people went through the check point headed up the dragon there was a whole lotta speeding going on..
I bet they wanted to be their for MTTS but that's just how slow the local TN govt reacts. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: I really want to open a drive through dunkin donuts on the NC side at the top of the Dragon. I would have made a killing that day. :ihih::ihih:
Hahaha! Priceless. On my final run on the Dragon I was going around a turn and on one of the pull-off areas there was a cop with the car parked and we was standing 2 feet from the road...just wanting the cars go bye.
I wonder if they would get pissed off if we stoped and gave them coffee and donuts when we are running the Dragon next year? :donut1: I mean like a piece offering and a (cough) thank you for keeping the road safe while we enjoy the Dragon at the "posted" speed limit. :biggrin5::aureola:
Why the heck would you want to stop in a turn on the Dragon??? :donut1: I have a better idea... I am going to fabrication some sort of metal slide/chute that goes out the passenger window a bit from inside the cabin. I will put a bag that includes a hot coffee (sealed top) and a donut on the slide. And then you go vrooming through the turn so the "package" shoots off of the slide and into the awaiting arms of the police officer.