--- On Mon, 2/7/11, Stephen West-Fisher <steve at coastaldatasystems.com> wrote:
> I've always found it funny that folks
> call it a speed "trap" when the law
> officers are just enforcing the law. To me a "trap" means
> something has been
> done to trick or bait you into not realizing the limit has
> changed.
I don't know about other places, but here in the US,
towns frequently set speed limits well under the road's
engineered speed, causing people to unwittingly break
the law. There are countless towns along two-lane
highways in this state. In the county, the speed limit
is 50 MPH. Cross into Podunkville, and the town's
one cop in the town's one police car will be sitting
under the town's one 25 MPH speed limit sign. A mile
later, you're back in the county and it's 50 MPH again.
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