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From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:52:30 +0100
I don't understand, Chuck.  Do you mean a proper speed trap or a contrivance to 
stop people to procure bribes?

And the Huffington Post video is strange because the police must have provided 
it for L Huff.

Chris

On 1 Apr 2012, at 14:21, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> Or the old Florida speed trap, one of which still exists in Waldo, 
> Florida on US 301.  The state cracked down on these many years ago but 
> the one in Waldo continues... or so says the billboards erected by 
> private parties on either end of town saying to watch out!  I put up 
> with it since US 301 is my preferred route running diagonally across 
> Florida and it only takes a couple of minutes to get through Waldo (at 
> dramatically different speed limits which change suddenly).
> 
> Fortunately, I've never encountered what the Huffington Post article 
> complains of despite traveling some 30,000 or so highway miles all 
> around the entire country in the past four years.  But I know it exists 
> because of the stupidity of our drug laws.  The lure for small, local 
> police forces to rake in money is just too strong.  Fortunately, my 
> experience is that local police do not normally patrol the interstate 
> highway system.  That's usually left to the state police who are usually 
> a much more professional organization.

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