There used to be a whole host of speed traps in the South. There was an LEO who used to sit at the bottom of a I-85 hill in NC. Ludowici, GA used to ticket drivers going 26 MPH in a 25 MPH zone on US 301. Sanford and Kissimee, FL on US 17 were also bad speed traps.
MEMORIES from the Fifties and Sixties!
My favorite Speed Trap, besides Hialeah Gardens in the late sixties.
Read and catch up on History with photos:
http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/misc/ludowici.htm
I had many stops by Ludowici and can say they always had a whiskey bottle at the Chiefs desk.
I recall the drive from Kingsland Ga. to Voldosta was one tiny speed trap after another. You literally couldn’t go ONE mph over the posted 25, 30, 35 mph.
“There was an LEO who used to sit at the bottom of a I-85 hill in NC.”
They’re sill there.
Sheriff’s in counties with interstates that are drug corridors have jumped on the profiling wagon and routinely pull out of state plates for “unsafe lane change” and bring in the dogs to sniff around. A couple of times a year they find enough drugs/cash/seizure material to fund the annual BBQ and buy new toys for the dept.
> There used to be a whole host of speed traps in the South. There was an LEO who used to sit at the bottom of a I-85 hill in NC. Ludowici, GA used to ticket drivers going 26 MPH in a 25 MPH zone on US 301. Sanford and Kissimee, FL on US 17 were also bad speed traps.
You got to be kidding me? Sorry but humans aren’t robots unless, of course, it means revenue for a city that is so horribly mismanaged it HAS to bleed taxpayers dry to stay alive. If that’s the case, shut the city down. If I were a sitting judge I would have thrown out every single ticket that LEO wrote that was under 5 miles over the spped limit, maybe 10...
There still ARE a host of speed traps in the South.
Don’t forget Lawtey, FL.