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Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Really OT :-(
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:07:45 -0300
When last in Oregon we were warned to avoid McDermitt on I95 just north of 
the the Nevada state line. Rumour had it that McDermitt financed most of its 
town expenditures with traffic and speeding fines ........ not that we had 
any intention of straying far from the coast.

jh



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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT Really OT :-(


> Neither.  A proper speed trap will allow at least a few miles over the
> limit.  Afterall, if you're paying too much attention to your
> speedometer you're not paying attention to the road.  The Waldo speed
> trap is a combination of suddenly varying speed limits (say, 45mph to
> 25mph) or, on the downhill side of an overpass, a sudden change from
> 35mph to 25mph at the end of the hill.  Combine those tricks with a zero
> tolerance for even 1 mile/hour over the limit and you have an abusive
> speed trap.  It's all designed to provide income to a small community.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 4/1/2012 9:52 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> 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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