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150 Drivers Ticketed In About 2 Hours

Video: ELF Cracks Down On Speeders


ORLANDO, Fla. -- In Orange County, the problem isn't dashing through the snow. It's cars darting down the street at high speeds.

PHOTOS: Images Of ELF operation

So the Orange County Sheriff's Office is doing something about it, launching Operation ELF: Enforcing Limits and Fining speeders.

Here's how it works: a sheriff's deputy dressed as an elf clocks cars using a radar gun then dispatches a motorcycle deputy to pull them over and issue the driver a ticket.

More than 150 tickets were written in just over two hours Thursday.

Some people said using a holiday icon to enforce the law didn't seem right.

"That's specifically why we didn't use Santa Claus," Ken Wyne of the Orange County Sheriff's Office said. "We didn't choose a nativity scene. We chose an elf. An elf is known for their impish behavior. If you're going to speed in Orange County, you never know who's going to be on the street corner."

The Orange County Sheriff's Office said they will continue to use similar decoys throughout the holiday season.


Watch Local 6 News for more information on this story.



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Posted by: OCKS

They should have used the grinch.

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Posted by: Oscar32

http://www.local6.com/news/10485255/detail.html#

This is the perfect assignment for a few people I know...

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Posted by: NewEngland2007

Elfin magic!

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Posted by: Opie

I saw this on another news channel and one girl was like, "I'm Totally Fighting This, This is Like Total Entrapment!" Yeah...Right!

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Posted by: Inspector

Better than those guys on the Maine Turnpike who dressed as construction workers and mounted the radar guns on surveyor tripods to catch them in the work areas.

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Posted by: CJIS

Thats great!

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Posted by: j809

They should try to dress up as Yucko the Clown or a Mass Deputy Sheriff. That would get a lot of laughs.

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Posted by: tazoez

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Originally Posted by Inspector Better than those guys on the Maine Turnpike who dressed as construction workers and mounted the radar guns on surveyor tripods to catch them in the work areas.

They need to start doing that in Mass. I can't count how many times that I have had some jackass on my rear bumper pissed off because I won't speed through a work zone. I usually go a tad slower than the posted work zone speed as a precautionary measure. Never know when someone has to cross or a Trooper will tell you to stop to let in a workcrew.

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