Oh, Castleberry, not Tackleberry.
Never mind...
For later
Good. F'n corrupt town. Hope it goes bankrupt. Just a microscopic version of what is going on with FedGov. Government uses it's enforcement branch to shakedown the public.
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I lived in Alabama for quite a few years and never heard of that town.
It does sound like they were basically involved in strong arm robbery under color of law.
Wasn’t there a town in Florida that was such a speed trap that it lost its charter and the police force disbanded?
Yeah those small towns with speed traps are annoying. You gotta watch out for them. Sometimes you’ll drive 55 and all of a sudden the speed limit is 25 and they catch you right there.
Throw the bastards in jail... All of ‘em.
Oh, Castleberry, not Tackleberry.
Never mind...
I’ve lived in Alabama all my life and have never heard of this place. I’ll have to look it up so I can be sure to avoid it.
The town of Times Beach, Missouri was once famous from coast-to-coast for the I-44 speed trap they ran just inside the city limits.
Times Beach is now an EPA superfund site.
"The Crooked Road" with Walter Matthau as the cop.
Had one of those just south of here in Portage, Ohio. Finally got taken out after decades of public fleecing. Scumbag mofo’s, scumbag town...
I’ve driven thru it
License to steal is law enforcement today
All for a good cause
Them
It’s been outta hand so long folks are used to it
In Florida a few years ago, the state legislature de-incorporated two towns that were literally nothing but speed traps ...
This article is from 2006, and I STILL observe the traffic laws when passing thru on the way to the beach.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653848/posts
However, I ALWAYS stop at "McLeod Farms Roadside Market and Pumpkin Patch" just past McBee...best darn blueberry or peach cobbler and ice cream!
Local speed traps in our area... Johnson Arkansas, Gentry Arkansas, Watts Oklahoma.
First highway ticket I ever got was in Tucumcari NM, just a few hours after the Government lowered the speed from 70 MPH to 55 MPH. Every cop in town was out on I-40 and had 30-40 cars pulled over.
In Johnson, Arkansas, when the new interstate opened with a 70 MPH speed limit, the small corner of Johnson had every cop in town again out and issuing tickets for violating the local 35 MPH rule. The governor of the state had to issue a “Cease and Desist” order to the town.
Every ticket I’ve gotten was in a speed trap town.
I wonder how many speeding tickets he generated that way.
I used to have to drive through a couple of tiny little towns on my way home. Heavily traveled route. I never saw anyone pulled over, and everybody usually seemed to be going the posted speed limit. But one evening, a tornado had been ripping around, and was sighted about 20 miles due east, and I could see those black low hanging clouds headed right in my direction. I went flying through that little burg about 90 mph. I was the only car on the road, and the police department was right on the road, with the squad car parked out front, as usual. If they saw me, they sure didn’t bother me. But that county is known to be an especially honest one, and that town was pretty much supported by the power plant they had. Guess they didn’t need the extra revenue of a speed trap.
We had a small town in Missouri called Macks Creek that did the same thing. Missouri ended up passing a law limiting their revenues from speeding tickets.
That part of AL is rife with those type towns. 2 lane highways that go through towns that look like a time warp.