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.or

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.