Posted on 08/30/2014 7:27:19 AM PDT by bamahead
Watch out for Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Police officers don’t have to write tickets any longer - the city just needs to mount a few red-light cameras in town and watch the money come rolling in!
30 MPH driving through town and a couple of adjustments on 301. Used the road often for 20 years, even with NY plates, and I was never stopped. The flea market was my rest stop, a quick walk around, pick up some farm fresh vegetables and then get back on the road. I don’t remember seeing anyone ever being pulled over. Obey the road signs,and everything is fine. Then try to go over the bridge by the Beach on Anna Marie Island that has a 5mph speed limit where if you are doing 7-8 mph, the sheriff car is waiting for you.
Drove through Ft Sumner last year and it was really dead. hardly saw anybody.
Also, really watch out for Hope.
Wow. It’s almost impossible to do 5 mph in a vehicle. You would almost have to be idling the whole way. That’s an incredibly stupid speed limit. Unless you are trying to write speeding tickets....
Years ago I was pulled over by an officer in a small town and he asked to search my car. I only consented because I was young and stupid and felt intimidated by him. I never did drugs or drank. In fact I was in business attire. Well I had done laundry a few days before and had spilt some of the white powdered laundry detergent in the floorboard behind my seat. He picks it up and says I’m going to have to test this to see if it’s cocaine. If you smelled the stuffed it was very obvious what it was. I said fine do it but he never did. He let me go probably realizing what an idiot he’d been. Funny thing is I was working with a former retired DPS trooper in that area and he called him and told him who I was. Never had trouble around there after that and even got to razz the officer about it later when I worked on iinvestigations in that area. Those small town cops can pretty much get away with whatever they want uf no one holds them accountable.
Is there a good speed trap app?
Waldo has had the speedtrap reputation for over 40 years that I’ve driven the road from Jacksonville to Gainesville. My wife and I would drive slowly through town and note the usual hiding spots of the cops and commiserate with the poor souls who got caught. From time to time there were articles and exposes of the corruption in the town but nothing has changed in almost half a century. (We were never stopped.)
Suspended with pay? Typical.
He should be in prison!
There are few places where I pay more attention to the speed limit signs than the Waldo corridor on 301.
It and its many traffic lights are reasons enough to skip it altogether and take I95 and I4 instead, depending on when I'd have to go through Orlando.
Treat Waldo as the racketeering influenced corrupt organization that it is. Disincorporate it as a town, close down its police department, throw the corrupt police hierarchy in jail, and seize assets to refund all the illegal tickets!
Waldo has a reputation which precedes it. It’s known for just two things. The flea market and the speed traps. I’ve know about its reputation for the speed traps long before I moved here from Arizona 3 years ago. My wife used to warn me about driving through Waldo when we would come to Florida to visit her family, where we live now, 10 miles south of Waldo.
I don’t read the local news much and this is the first I’ve heard about this corruption charge with the police chief in Waldo. No hard to believe, that’s for sure.
The whole game is tied to cash generation for the city. They need to generate X amount of cash per quarter, and your career (ever how long or brief)....is attached to that fact. If you forced each town to admit in public how much they make per month...folks would start asking questions. I think public video-taping is probably changing the game....but we need each state to tap cities and force them end the game.
Selma, TX used to be like that. The PD station was on a curve on IH 35 and the cops had a radar gun they used inside the second floor and would radio to the PD on the road.
Everyone in central Texas would drive under the posted speed there, but out of town people would ignore the limits and get tickets on a daily basis.
Used to set the cruise control at 28 and wave at the cops as I passed through. That was 2002. Drove through there twice a week for about 6 months...
Hiding spots are a good dumping ground for roofing nails, sharp metal objects, etc....it really works.
“Treat Waldo as the racketeering influenced corrupt organization that it is. Disincorporate it as a town, close down its police department, throw the corrupt police hierarchy in jail, and seize assets to refund all the illegal tickets!”
You read my mind!! But you need to RICO the town officials too. They are the “drivers” behind the criminal activity. The mayor, city council and the city manager need to be in jail.
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