[MinorityRepublican]

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.

[Ezekiel]

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.

On the plus side it's an easy-read-sign that says, "Don't move here. This place is patently corrupt."

[max americana]

Got caught in some dirtbag town in NV around Pahrump, and I was sure we were within 50 MPH because of the crappy road and just like those movies, a fat Sheriff comes out and gives us a ticket that we were “above 70”.

It’s a waste of time even contesting it because I’m sure everyone in that courthouse is corrupt..

[Conserv]

Every time I go from middle Georgia to Kxoxville, I know to go right at the speed limit when I hit the 3-4 miles of I75 that runs thru Forsyth, GA.

Hell, Forsyth has been a speed trap for as long as I can remember. One time I swear I saw 10 cars pulled over.

[MisterArtery]

We got caught in one of those fast-reducing speed traps last summer. The infamous trap is Texline, Tx, in the far north-west corner of the panhandle.

[Tailback]

Tillamook, OR. Got a speeding ticket there for accelerating 100 yards before the 55mph sign.

[SamAdams76]

In my area, the police set up the speed traps during rush hour - bagging working stiffs who are just trying to get to their jobs or get home after a long day. This is a stretch of lonely backroads on Route 136 between Monroe and Westport CT that are nothing but woods and yet the speed limit is set to a ridiculous 35 mph for most of that way. If ever you try going actually that speed, you are going to immediately have tailgaters flashing their high beams at you, giving you the finger and then trying to pass you illegally, creating a much more dangerous situation than doing the 50-55mph you can very safely travel that stretch. So the cops just sit there and they know that giving speeding tickets will be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Then between about 10am and 4pm - the speed traps magically disappear. These rush hour traps are definitely a revenue generator and has nothing to do with safety. They figure that working people are too busy to fight a ticket in court and will usually have the money to just pay it so that they don't have to miss any work time. They are pretty much correct in that. If they went after the midday speeders, the retirees and the welfare bum crowd, well they have all the time in the world to contest tickets and even if they lose the argument at their hearing, it will be a hassle to get them to ever pay it anyhow.