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Kentucky Roadblocks
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Cadiz
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Description
of roadblock location:
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US-68E&W anywhere from Downtown
Cadiz Exit to LBL
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Time
of day:
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Late Night
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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registration, alchohol, insurance,
drugs, seatbelts, vehicle safety, vehicle equipment, destination,
racial profiling, activities travel
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Set up at this location on a
regular or frequent basis
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped and checked all cars
or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
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Registry date:
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05/2007
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information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
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Road block occurs usually just past Arrowhead Golf Course as you
start to go down the hill you will see them. Checking both East
and West bound traffic and stopping all vehicles. I have been stopped
and checked there twice in the past month. They get right up in
your face to try to smell your breath. |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Campton
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Description
of roadblock location:
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715,
entrance into park at Red River Gorge
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Time
of day:
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Any
time
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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Registration,
Alcohol, Insurance, Drugs, Seatbelts, Vehicle Equipment, Destination,
Warrants, Racial Profiling, Travel Activities, Dogs
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Set
up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped
and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
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Registry date:
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06/2002
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information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| The
police at this roadblock carry out an operation they call "playing
the game." They immediately accuse you of having drugs on you, and
inform you that if you don't fork them over everyone in the car
is going to jail (an obvious bluff). They are notorious for searching
teenagers and young adults, and if you have long hair, dreadlocks,
or are wearing a bandana, you can count on being searched. They
wasted a good forty-five minutes of our time trashing our car and
letting dogs trample all over it. They seemed to be making a lot
of arrests. Since my experience, it has come to my attention that
there are frequently roadblocks in this exact area. |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Dry
Ridge
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Description
of roadblock location:
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I
75 at exit 159, Hwy 22 west
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Time
of day:
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Any
time
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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Registration,
Insurance, Seatbelts, Travel Activities
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Infrequently
set up but location remains constant
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped/checked
25% to 75% of vehicles
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Registry date:
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07/2001
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information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| No
comment available. |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Lexington
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Description
of roadblock location:
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Bryan
Station road near the 5000 block
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Time
of day:
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Any
time
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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Registration,
Alcohol, Insurance, Drugs, Seatbelts
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Set
up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped
and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
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Registry date:
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10/2002
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information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| we
live less than a mile from the roadblock i just posted. we live
in a mobile home park that is i guess strike one against us. this
roadblock is setup at this location strictly for the people in the
mobile home park because as we all know people who live in a mobile
home must be scumbags and on drugs, strike two against us. the law
sets up these roadblocks and are knowingly discriminating against
people who don't have the means to do anything about their harrassment,
strike three against us and were out and completely at the mercy
of the law. I am an electrician and my wife is going to college
to become a psychologist, we both work very hard and feel this very
wrong. We cannot leave our community without being stopped and questioned,
and it is not just on a Friday or Saturday night! They set up shop
during the week, Sunday afternoons etc. We would like to know who
we can contact about this! They don'nt have roadblocks set up outside
the country club, where all the rich people go, and get drunk, in
fact, they have a policeman directing traffic for them, when they
leave! They KNOW that no lawyers, or anyone with high status, lives
in a mobile home park, so thats why they target us! Because we are
"trash" and I'm sick of it!! |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Marion
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Description
of roadblock location:
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Hwy
60 in front of Marion Mining Bolt
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Time
of day:
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PM
Rush Hour
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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Seatbelts
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Set
up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped
and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
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Registry date:
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07/2002
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information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| I
don't drink nor do I partake in any illegal drugs. I was stopped
at a road block at the above stated location on Friday evening of
the 2002 Memorial Day Weekend I had to wait more than a 10 minutes
to get to speak to an officer who sited me for not having my 2 year
old in a seat belt. I would have belted him while I waited but I
thought I had belted him in. My 7 year old son and I were buckled.
I would never intentionally not buckle my little one. But this time
my 2 yr old decided to climb into his seat by himself so I turned
to do something and just forgot to buckle him. I feel that the road
blocks for checking license, belts, insurance, etc. is an invasion
of privacy. I could understand if law enforcement was trying to
apprehend a known convict loose in our community but this is not
right. In my small community I have lived here for about 1 year
and have been through at least 5 road blocks. I have been told that
our small community is 2nd in the state for dui's ..... no wonder
they set up just across the river from IL where everyone crosses
on a ferry and checks everyone. |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Mount Vernon
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Description
of roadblock location:
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FlatGap Rd.
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Time
of day:
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Anytime
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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registration, alchohol, insurance,
drugs, seatbelts, vehicle safety, vehicle equipment, destination,
warrants, criminal convictions, activities travel
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Set up at this location on a
regular or frequent basis
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped and checked all cars
or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
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Registry date:
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05/2008
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information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| No comments
available. |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Ravenna
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Description
of roadblock location:
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County road Chestnut Stand, Marble
Yard
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Time
of day:
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Late Night
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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unknown, registration, alchohol,
insurance, drugs, seatbelts, child safety seats, marital status,
activities travel, dogs
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Set up at this location on a
regular or frequent basis
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped and checked all cars
or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
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Registry date:
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04/2007
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| Additional
information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| They
are only out to make a dollar. |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Russellville
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Description
of roadblock location:
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Rt 79, Just south of Russellville
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Time
of day:
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Late Night
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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registration, alchohol, insurance,
vehicle safety
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Infrequently set up but location
remains constant
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped and checked all cars
or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
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Registry date:
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05/2008
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| Additional
information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| This
roadblock was set up Saturday night about 9pm on Memorial Day weekend
2008, on Rt 79 just south of Russellville KY. There were 6 police
vehicles (3 setting on each side of the road) with 6 officers in
the center lane stopping cars. As far as I could tell they were
stopping every vehicle to ask for license, registration, proof of
insurance and check for intoxication. I was told by the officer
that it was an "advertised roadblock" and that they were doing a
"safety check". I suspect that this roadblock is set up mainly during
holiday weekends. |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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Suwanee,
Eddyville
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Description
of roadblock location:
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Intersection
of State Hwy 62 and highway 810
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Time
of day:
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Late
Night
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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Registration,
Alchohol, Insurance, Drugs, Seatbelts, Child safety seats, Warrants,
Activities travel
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Set
up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped/checked
25% to 75% of vehicles
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Registry date:
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06/2002
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| Additional
information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| This
is a "dry liquor" county (no stores in the county are allowed to
sell alcohol) and the ONLY restaurant (Sante Fe Cattle Company)
that serves alcohol in this county that I'm aware of sits about
2-3 miles right in between the roadblock locations right off of
I-24 exit 40 near the Lake Barkley area. I have been told that roadblocks
have been set up between 2-3 miles of both sides of Interstate 24
off of exit 40 and right outside of Eddyville with the Santa Fe
restaurant smack dab in the middle of these draconian Kentucky State
Police roadblocks. However, the roadblocks are made just far enough
for plausible deniability that they are tareting patrons of the
restaurant. I got pulled over on a Friday night at approximately
11:00-11:30. If you have long hair or don't look what they consider
"civil" or "upper-crust" in their snap judgements, they will ask
you to pull over and make you perform a rediculous and ineffective
sobriety test as a diversion while the occupants in your vehicle
are spot interrogated about their recent drinking, eating and drug
consumption. I was visting from out of state and I have NEVER been
subjected to such a process that made me to feel like I'm guilty
until proven innocent. All my vehicle paperwork was perfectly in
line and I had indeed consumed one quite large and relatively powerful
alcoholic beverage prior to meeting the roadblock and they had me
pull over (after noticing my long hair) and put me to the sobriety
test which I passed with flying colors. That in itself is evidence
of the roadblock's ineffectiveness, inefficiency and outrageous
invasive motive. It is obvious they are specifically targeting ANY
patrons leaving the Santa Fe Cattle Company restaurant since it
IS the only establishment in the area that serves alcholic beverages.
The KY state police WILL pull anyone over for further questioning
or sobriety test who has claimed to have eaten at the Santa Fe.
The pisser about this roadblock is that it purposely restricts access
to the high dollar residential lakefront properties where most of
the people in the immediate area go to eat at the Santa Fe regularly
on weekend nights when the roadblocks are set up. This is not random
and it is getting quite out of hand. I will make some calls and
see if my local acssociates can mark the road with a large neon
orange sign roadblock warning a mile previous to other historic
roadblock sites so one may turn around without detection and wait
it out at the local convenience stores next to the Santa Fe. |
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Town/City/Municipality:
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West Liberty/Paintsville
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Description
of roadblock location:
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Rt. 172 and Rt 437
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Time
of day:
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Anytime
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Purported
purpose of roadblock:
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registration, drugs, seatbelts,
warrants
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Regularity
of roadblock:
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Set up at this location on a
regular or frequent basis
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Percentage
of cars stopped or checked:
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Stopped and checked all cars
or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
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Registry date:
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07/2007
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| Additional
information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter: |
| Once these
guys set up a block no one can pass without showing DL. |
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