I don't understand, Chuck. Do you mean a proper speed trap or a contrivance to
stop people to procure bribes?
And the Huffington Post video is strange because the police must have provided
it for L Huff.
Chris
On 1 Apr 2012, at 14:21, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Or the old Florida speed trap, one of which still exists in Waldo,
> Florida on US 301. The state cracked down on these many years ago but
> the one in Waldo continues... or so says the billboards erected by
> private parties on either end of town saying to watch out! I put up
> with it since US 301 is my preferred route running diagonally across
> Florida and it only takes a couple of minutes to get through Waldo (at
> dramatically different speed limits which change suddenly).
>
> Fortunately, I've never encountered what the Huffington Post article
> complains of despite traveling some 30,000 or so highway miles all
> around the entire country in the past four years. But I know it exists
> because of the stupidity of our drug laws. The lure for small, local
> police forces to rake in money is just too strong. Fortunately, my
> experience is that local police do not normally patrol the interstate
> highway system. That's usually left to the state police who are usually
> a much more professional organization.
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