An undercover Michigan State Police officer this week donned plainclothes and held a cardboard sign at a metro Detroit freeway intersection to catch people who weren't wearing their seat belts.
And though the officer certainly looked like a panhandler holding a sign, a Michigan State Police spokesman wouldn't refer to it as that. He also wouldn't say that the trooper was intended to blend in with the setting to catch more violators.
But it certainly worked out that way.…