Posted on 10/02/2014 2:00:46 PM PDT by george76
The police force has been disbanded in Waldo, Florida, a tiny town with a big speed trap reputation.
On Tuesday, the Waldo City Council voted 4-1 to eliminate the department just weeks after the chief and interim chief resigned because of state investigations into many issues, including an illegal ticket quota
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Where’s Waldo? (in first!)
The end of an era.
Someone once offered me a great deal on a house in Waldo, Ohio.
Did not buy it for that very reason.
The “town” should be disbanded. It’s just a shakedown operation by the roadside.
Unfortunately I know............
There’s a Waldo, Maine.
I always drove really slow through Waldo and always saw them with several cars pulled over. I even saw one pulled over and the cop then told him to stay there while she went after another one.
I was happy to see the guy just pull out and go on his way.
The worst one ever was Ludowici, Georgia. Governor Maddox even put up a billboard saying for the public to beware as they were approaching a town full of robbers and thieves. That didn’t stop it so he told them he would have the town abolished if they didn’t stop.
That and a new law, called the Ludowici law which made it illegal for any but state troopers to give a ticket for less than 10 mph over the limit, finally made them stop.`
My soon-to-be ex-Sister-in-Law was so angry at being caught by the speed trap being run in her town that she ran for and won a seat on her town council.
She spent her entire term in office trying to pass a bill that would have disbanded the police department. It never passed.
She will deny it to her final day, but I have no doubt she put all that energy into winning a council seat simply to get even with the cop who kept writing her up.
lolz
Sounds like Weehawken NJ
Have a speed trap near enterence to Lincoln Tunnel
Coming down bridge from Hoboken is small sign listing speed as
25 MPH. Almost impossible to see
Wait right there to grab you.......
Love him or hate him, Maddox was entertaining...
Nearby Jesup was nearly as bad as Ludowici but they also got the message.
Summersville, West Virginia is another infamous one.
I saw an article not too many years ago from a writer for I think the Atlanta Constitution. During Maddox term in office the guy was one of his most severe critics.
Finally after having time to look back on it he changed his mind and admitted Maddox was in fact a very good Governor.
Then there are towns that shake down the visitors in other ways….. A few years ago, I attended a conference in Kansas City and was stunned when I returned my rental car at the airport and the bill presented to me was about 1/3 higher than I expected. When I enquired what this rather vague line item of ‘municipal improvement fund’ was all about, it was explained to me that the City of KC didn’t want to put the cost of their new football (or perhaps baseball?) stadium on the backs of the taxpayers so they dumped it the visitors from out of town by putting this huge tax on rental cars (and other stuff I suppose). When I got home, I called the mayor up and told him that I will NEVER visit his town again and I will make sure that I tell as many people as I can about their approach to ‘municipal improvement projects’ and avoid KC like the plague.
I’m sure that there are other municipalities that do things as egregiously as KC but that one seemed way over the top to me.
There’s also a scenic coastal county here in Maine called Waldo County.
There is another town near Waldo which I can’t recall right now. It was about the same as Waldo.
There are quite a few of these little speed trap towns in the Delta region of Mississippi. It’s almost the only revenue they have. Some lib wrote about being stopped in one on his way to some blues festival, when he and his wife had to drive through one. He was threatened with jail if he didn’t pay, on the spot, in cash.
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