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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

KaiserM715 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:31:53 EDT

I see that Tulia, TX is listed (as shown on the screen shot above). A classic speed trap (my wife's first ticket).

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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

Searcher — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:19:20 EDT

For departments to bother with marking fake speedtraps makes the assumption that they're actually interested in enforcement for safety sake. I think it's pretty obvious that revenue generation is the prime motivator for speed enforcement, so fake speedtrap locations would defeat the real purpose.

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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

rgseidl — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:00:21 EDT

I can just see police departments signing up and phoning in fake trap locations. It would be a lot cheaper than actually operating them, though ultimately customers would lose faith in the accuracy of the service.

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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

El-Fez — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:20:28 EDT

Yay! More reasons for speeders to text on their phones!

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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:53:56 EDT

@Unevolved...?: prolly just represents the one that's been reported.

@Corvette_Thunder: They also do this for seat belt & drunk driving enforcement blitzes, too. Could work in your favor if you don't wear the seatbelt. Probably won't help you if you're drunk...

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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

Unevolved 8.04 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:49:06 EDT

Yeah, I see a little dot on Highway 6 between Waco and Bryan... A single dot must signify about 5 traps. Right?

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BRDHNTR: Extraordinaire — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:46:22 EDT

@Corvette_Thunder: Are you serious? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a speed "trap"? If it is true, I would definitely call, so that if a cop did pull me over using a speed trap I can say "you can't ticket me because you didn't announce where you placed your speed trap." I am sure that would get me out of the ticket.

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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

graverobber- It says Loud Pipes Save Lives — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:40:54 EDT

Now we can find out where this guy lives:

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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

Corvette_Thunder — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:37:21 EDT

In some states (maybe all?) the police are supposed to release where and when they are doing speed traps, so often a simple call is all it takes. The flip side is that you kinda sound like a tool doing it. This service takes the embarassment factor out of finding out I guess.

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Trapster: Avoid Speed Traps The French Fry-Free Way

TattooedMess(iah) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:28:45 EDT

I'm worried this may backfire. Couldn't the police just give out false tips to get people to slow down? Seems like most of the time when I'm on Florida's turnpike they're just trying to get us to slow down anyway, unless we're going ridiculously fast.

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