Be careful if you pass through Dry Prong. It's a speed trap.

The name alone sounds painful. I know it was for me.

LOL, my anthropology professor got pulled over in Dry Prong...the cop reminded her that he could arrest her if he wanted...sounds like a right nice place.

North Louisiana is filled with speed traps.

(12-04-2013 01:54 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  North Louisiana is filled with speed traps.

It is and what is sad is it the largest source of income for most of those towns. Most are villages thAt have no business even having a police department.

(12-04-2013 02:54 PM)Warsaw landing Wrote:  

(12-04-2013 01:54 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  North Louisiana is filled with speed traps.

It is and what is sad is it the largest source of income for most of those towns. Most are villages thAt have no business even having a police department.

Warsaw...I wish that they didn't...kind of funny as a staff back in the late 80's with the Cajuns we actually had a Louisiana Map posted with towns circled that you did not dare speed thru....recruiting can get damn expensive up there....

Arkansas has had its share. Legislature passed a statute limiting the per cent of income a town or city can derive from traffic court.

I got caught once in a famous Arkansas Speed trap. Town has a posted population of about 150 people.

Cop got me on my way to work for going 60 in a 55. (First time I've ever been ticketed for anything under 10 over.) After a two minute lecture about being more careful (as three other cars sped right by us) I was offered a "deal" in which he would only give me a ticket for a city ordinance of "inattentive driving." Which doesn't go on a driving record.

Thinking I got off pretty well, I showed up to pay the ticket a month later and the woman looks at me and goes "That will be $275 please" After a near heart attack, I recovered long enough to find out from the clerk that a City Ordinance has a fine set by the city, while the fine for a speeding violation ($100) is set by the state. They catch drivers by charging them with a city ordinance violation and not putting it on their driving record, thus, its not officially a "speed trap"

In other words, I got a $275 fine for driving 5 over the speed limit, in a situation where most cops in the large towns won't even bother with you.

I didn't get off terrible though, I had a friend who was caught going 25 over in a speed trap, and he got himself thrown in jail for three days.