[Responsibility2nd]

As a Texan who well remembers the Selma days, I can tell you that most small towns with speed traps are as crooked and corrupt as the day is long.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I can tell you that most small towns with speed traps are as crooked and corrupt as the day is long. ============================================================= Wauseon, Ohio. 1988. Got a ticket for doing 42 in a 35 cornfield. Passed the last building in town (a Baptist church) on the state highway and began to speed up. City limits extended another 1000 yards or so out into the cornfields. Cops were sitting in church parking lot with lights off. I had PA plates and they stopped a guy from Michigan. Those with Ohio plates just kept going. Later learned that under Ohio law they aren't allowed to be in total darkness. This same town had a big brawl going on over its police force attempting to unionize, and there was an unsolved rape that had occurred behind the police station!

[wildcard_redneck]

“As a Texan who well remembers the Selma days, I can tell you that most small towns with speed traps are as crooked and corrupt as the day is long.”

In 1987 I was in a SUV with 5 other people heading east on I-10 and we got pulled over in Van Horn, TX. They cited everyone in the car for seat belt violations for $50 each and the diver also got a citation for speeding. They told us we could spend the night in jail or pay the fines by mail. The officer watched them out the citation with a check in a stamped envelope and watched them put it in the mailbox before we could go. Total speed trap scam.

I didn't get a ticket because as we were being pulled over I put my seat belt on. My fellow travelers were pissed that I didn't get a ticket.