Redefining the Tourist Trap:34 DUI arrests in White County, Georgia over October 10-12, 2008 weekend

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

White County, Georgia with a population of 25,000 and home to the tourist center and alpine village of Helen, Georgia and Cleveland, Georgia home of babyland general, socked it to Octoberfest fans and leaf watchers in a series of rolling road blocks looking for DUIs.  Tourists were turning as orange as the leaves and I don't mean Tennesse fans struggling home from Athans, some 52 people were arrested in the constitutionally suspect road blocks primarily on Saturday Night.  White County Authorities and the Georgia State Patrol had both ends of main drag in Helen bottled up with DUI road blocks during Octoberfest no less, arrestees reported.  Nothing says hurry back to White County like a court summons. White County Sheriff Neal Walden was quoted as stating that a combined force of Georgia State Troopers, White County Sheriff's Deputies and Appalachian Drug Task Force agents were involved.  Sheriff Walden attributed the high number of arrests to the number of officers on the road.  Ironically, no drugs were reported as discovered only the fat wallets of allegedly impaired Octoberfest tourists.

 

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