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Yeah, really hard to believe we simply modernized the idea of the Highwayman. Even harder to believe that the police force is so corrupt in so many parts of thi

Yeah, really hard to believe we simply modernized the idea of the Highwayman. Even harder to believe that the police force is so corrupt in so many parts of this country that they were able to rebrand the tactic and get it written into laws as legal. Wait, this is 2017 right? None of that's hard to believe.

jstarfish 9y ago
The tale of former Governor Lester Maddox's campaign of harassment against a corrupt south Georgia police force is an amusing one. http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1023-the-ludowici-trap http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1023-the-ludowic... http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/misc/ludowici.htm http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/misc/ludowici.htm You know it's bad when a rural town attains national infamy in the pre-internet days. Besides gaming the stoplights, the police would hide behind billboards and trees with their radar guns and target out-of-state motorists with tickets for +1 mph over the limit. Since most were just passing through the town, nobody had the inclination to wait around for a court date to fight the tickets, and all were essentially forced to pay without a chance to contest it. He eventually succeeded in passing some legislation to curb the abuse. To this day local police have to sit in plain sight on flat ground (within a certain tolerance of grade) when running radar/lidar, can't write speeding tickets for less than 10 mph over the posted limit (does not apply to state troopers or school zones) and a slew of other technical nitpicks that make it easier to get "sane" speeding tickets dismissed.