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  On 2/6/2014 at 6:53 PM, DC Tom said:

Good...but it's sad that time and resources were wasted all the way up to the federal court level on this nonsense.

 

Agree. It is sad that towns depend on that revenue from speed traps. Flashing your lights and warning other drivers to drive safe and slow down cuts into business. Would a driver rather have a cop tell them to slow down or another driver?

 

  On 2/6/2014 at 7:33 PM, LABillzFan said:

Why is this a thing?

 

Because it is a brutal winter and towns are running out of salt and money to buy that salt with. Of course these cases were two years ago! People think that they are Taxed Enough Already. Cutting into a town's business by signaling a driver is being a bad Ubu!

 

LA... I am joking and busting your hump on the whole TEA thing. But, there is truth to what TYTT said.

 

Some departments & cops like to go on "fishing expeditions" too... More chance they will find something else.

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Yeah. Sure. Still not doing that in front of cops. Next thing I know is I'll mysteriously have a busted taillight.

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  On 2/9/2014 at 2:46 AM, NoJustice said:

Yeah. Sure. Still not doing that in front of cops. Next thing I know is I'll mysteriously have a busted taillight.

 

A mysteriously busted taillight is not the end of the world. Its that dime bag sitting on the passenger seat and the crushed beer cans on the floor that will do you in!

 

;-P ;-P

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  On 2/11/2014 at 11:35 PM, ExiledInIllinois said:

A mysteriously busted taillight is not the end of the world. Its that dime bag sitting on the passenger seat and the crushed beer cans on the floor that will do you in!

 

;-P ;-P

 

And you're still a federal employee?

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I am dumbfounded by this story. Where I live this is commonplace and expected. Additionally, insurance companies literally put up huge billboards outside of the dumpy towns that make all their money on speed traps telling everyone "SPEED TRAP AHEAD."

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  On 2/12/2014 at 1:25 PM, SameOldBills said:

I am dumbfounded by this story. Where I live this is commonplace and expected. Additionally, insurance companies literally put up huge billboards outside of the dumpy towns that make all their money on speed traps telling everyone "SPEED TRAP AHEAD."

 

They even have speed trap websites and apps.

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  On 2/12/2014 at 9:10 PM, TakeYouToTasker said:

We have a popular talk radio program which encourages it's listeners to call in and report speed traps.

 

97 Rock did that in Buffalo about 20 years ago...I believe the state troopers made them stop.

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  On 2/12/2014 at 10:53 PM, DC Tom said:

 

 

97 Rock did that in Buffalo about 20 years ago...I believe the state troopers made them stop.

They tried here, and while they were trying a cop called in and started talking about "not messing with police business". The radio host respectfully asked if the goal was to slow down drivers or to pad local revenues, and the cop went tangential, getting vocal about police prerogative, dangrous jobs, and how "cops do what they have to do". He was pressed, and his basic statement came down to, "don't ever !@#$ with a cop or he'll !@#$ you and your whole family back."

 

It was dropped after the issue.

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  On 2/6/2014 at 7:02 PM, TakeYouToTasker said:

Any other ruling would have been an admission that speed traps are 100% about revenue generated and 0% about public safety.

 

I wasn't aware anyone still bothered with the 'public safety' line anyway.

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  On 2/17/2014 at 2:43 AM, Fan in San Diego said:

I must be getting old. I don't speed anymore.

 

I have a warning chime on my car set for 80 mph. It's constantly going off. But then again everyone is driving 80 on the freeway. I find myself creeping up on 100 sometimes. :oops:

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