Just peeked at the public area of TB2000, and this piqued my curiosity:
(Posted today on the main forum)
I may have a DOT!
I met a friend for dinner last night and when I got to the restaurant, she was on a walkie talkie with her husband who was telling her that, up I-85 (north of Atlanta), where it splits to I-985, the police and FBI were there, traffic was at a dead stop, the police were making EVERY vehicle over a standard family car pull off the highway, to a rest stop where EVERY vehicle was being inspected (from tow trucks on up to tractor trailers). This was at 6:30.
When my friend was on her way home at 9:00 - she called me and said that now there were military personnel there, in fatigues, some in the woods off the highway, with night vision goggles, the police and FBI were still pulling all over size vehicles off the road for inspection, with police cars lined up on the side of the interstate to run down any vehicles that did not pull over (which wouldn't have been much of a chase anyway since traffic was at a standstill).
The really weird part (on top of all of this) is that this had been going on for at least 2.5 hours and there was NO MEDIA present.
Last evening, I was driving home from school and listening to 770 out of NYC. During the traffic break I heard of a similar thing occurring somewhere just outside one of the NYC 'burbs (don't recall exactly where). Anyway, the report was that traffic was backed up 14 miles as vehicles were being funneled into a rest area that was filled with 'flashing lights'. I got home shortly after hearing about this and never heard anything more.
That's interesting.
Thanks for sharing that post with us Jerseygirl. Stuff happening it seems we'll never know the rhyme or reason for. Would be nice if they apprehended a few of those Chechens before they do whatever it is they snuck across the Mexican border to do to us (hopefully our alphabet agencies and law enforcement can give them a big American welcome before much time has passed). Do we ship back dead illegals or bury them as paupers here (thinking of the Chechen 25)?
Route 85 heads up into Charlotte. There's the NASCAR race on up in Concord this weekend. Apparently there is stepped up security for all sporting events with large gatherings of people.