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.
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.
Ludowici and Pine Lake, GA, were the motive force that caused the state legislature to change the law so that a local cop couldn’t use a radar or laser gun to write a ticket for less than 10 mph over the speed limit. That’s still in effect today.