Neither. A proper speed trap will allow at least a few miles over the
limit. Afterall, if you're paying too much attention to your
speedometer you're not paying attention to the road. The Waldo speed
trap is a combination of suddenly varying speed limits (say, 45mph to
25mph) or, on the downhill side of an overpass, a sudden change from
35mph to 25mph at the end of the hill. Combine those tricks with a zero
tolerance for even 1 mile/hour over the limit and you have an abusive
speed trap. It's all designed to provide income to a small community.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/1/2012 9:52 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> 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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