Speed trap

[TexasBred]

CB you must have gone state wide. Those signs are everywhere.

The state did crack down on these local yokel's on state Hwy's by posting reduced speed limit sign's with the upcoming speed limit. Texas was full of speed traps. If you get poped now it is your fault.

CB we have a little town up on I-35W that still does it. Grandview, Texas...Town is a mile from the interstate but the cops stay out on the interestate. Just so happens that the 75 mph speed limit drops down to 65 mph when you get to their county line. Most folks don't notice it and these little pricks wear'em out.

Here you go...check'em out: http://www.speedtrap.org/

[chippie]

I went through Estelline last Thursday going to the Panhandle and came home through it yesterday. The bill board shown is not there. Rogers is a known speed trap also.

I've seen the Estelline cop catch a person and was happy that it wasn't me. He like to catch people at night. He lives just off of the road, so if you see his car at home, you don't have to worry about him hiding somewhere : )

Although I will say that some of the drivers that he catches need to be caught. The speed limit is the law, not a suggestion.

[Dave]

I live just outside a small unincoporated town. Beings as it is unincorporated there is no town cop. Just the deputy sheriff who is never there. The speed limit is 30 mph in town but people drive 40 + all the time. They all blow through our one stop light too. So a couple friends and I hatched a plan to incorporate the town. One of us would be the mayor, one the justice of the peace, and one the cop. One of the guys owned a small empty business that had a fenced back lot. We were going to turn the empty building into the court and the back lot into th impound yard. Speeders would be directed to pull into the back lot to park (of course their car is now in the impound yard). So it would be pay your fine or we keep your car. We planned to mostly stop out of town nice new fancy cars. In fact locals would be incouraged to speed as they might lure the out of towners to follow them at speeds above the speed limit. it was a great plan we never followed through on. Had we done it I am sure that we would have either been retired by now or maybe in prison...... one of the two.

[slick4591]

Had we done it I am sure that we would have either been retired by now or maybe in prison...... one of the two.

My bet would be prison.

[john250]

My little town aspires to be a speed trap, but IN state law won't let us have our own judge. We could write a bunch of tickets, but they all have to go to county court, so whats the point.

[cross_7]

I went through Estelline last Thursday going to the Panhandle and came home through it yesterday. The bill board shown is not there. Rogers is a known speed trap also.

I've seen the Estelline cop catch a person and was happy that it wasn't me. He like to catch people at night. He lives just off of the road, so if you see his car at home, you don't have to worry about him hiding somewhere : )

Although I will say that some of the drivers that he catches need to be caught. The speed limit is the law, not a suggestion.

i took the picture about 9:30 am thursday morning so it's still there, northeast side of the road right before you get to the raodside park.

[Ryder]

[edit] Speed trapEstelline has a reputation for being a prominent Texas speed trap.[9] It has a one-person police force whose main purpose is to enforce traffic laws.[10] From 2000 through 2009, Estelline had the second highest traffic fine revenue per citizen in Texas, more than 300% the per citizen revenue of third place Domino, Texas.[11]

[Ryder]

Had we done it I am sure that we would have either been retired by now or maybe in prison...... one of the two.

My bet would be prison.

A certain well publicized Louisiana citizen,who will remain nameless, now deceased was once arrested and sent to prison for some of his nefarious deeds.
Someone commented to him how bad it must have been to have spent time in prison.
He responded, "Not if you make enough money first".

[Caustic Burno]

TB hauled a trailer to Grandview on a cattle buying trip took the wife along. What was I thinking?
Before I got to look at the first cow she had bought enough antiques to fill up a 16 ft gooseneck.
Covington was the one that caught my attention with sign's posted speed trap ahead.

[TexasBred]

TB hauled a trailer to Grandview on a cattle buying trip took the wife along. What was I thinking?
Before I got to look at the first cow she had bought enough antiques to fill up a 16 ft gooseneck.
Covington was the one that caught my attention with sign's posted speed trap ahead.

I had forgotten about the antique thing. They have that a couple times a year I think. Stretches all the way to Cleburne. I read some where recently that Covington has some real skulldugery going on with the cops. Seems they have literally taken over the community and everyone is scared to death of them. That was a couple months ago.

[Tom in TN]

The city of Spring Hill, TN has just annexed land into the city that is on both sides of I-65 about 40 miles south of Nashville. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen stated publically that their express intent of doing so was to enable the local police department to patrol I-65 in that area.

There are no exit ramps in the area. There are no marginal roads that lead off the interstate. There have been no accidents in the area. The speed limit is 70 miles per hour in that area, but as usual, many people exceed the speed limit.

I'm not endorsing violation of the speed limit, but, can you say, "Government fund-raiser"?

Tom in TN

[jw]

I can remember a few years back when Farmersville was a pretty good speed trap area, or at least had a very very vigilant policeman. I guess he retired!

[slick4591]

I can remember a few years back when Farmersville was a pretty good speed trap area, or at least had a very very vigilant policeman. I guess he retired!

If they were old enough to retire, then they weren't writing many tickets here. It's always been the young ones that thought they had something to prove. If you got a ticket from an old one you musta really screwed up. Now the next town west of us, Princeton, is and has been notorious for working 380.

[jw]

I was fortunate to never get one, but I remember they always set up just east of the DQ on 380. And yes, they set up very regular in Princeton. Usually just on the West side of the lake around that curve. Gotta beware!

[Jogeephus]

My little town aspires to be a speed trap, but IN state law won't let us have our own judge. We could write a bunch of tickets, but they all have to go to county court, so whats the point.

The violator doesn't have to know that. Just do like Cuthbert Alabama does and just demand cash on the spot.