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re: What is the biggest speed trap in LA?

Posted on 6/20/18 at 11:47 am to
Posted by Demshoes
Up in here
Member since Aug 2015
10758 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 11:47 am to
Actually the entirety of Hwy. 425 and Harahan.
Posted by terriblegreen
Spokane, LA
Member since Aug 2011
12458 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 11:47 am to
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Waterproof


Yep. This place too. I have a camp in Tensas Parish. I have to drive through Ferriday, Clayton and Waterproof (the trifecta of shitholes) to get there. If you speed through any of these dumps you have to be insane because there absolutely will be a speed trap 24/7, 365.
Posted by LZ83
La
Member since Sep 2016
17446 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 11:47 am to
Georgetown
Crotch springs
Posted by shmashmortion
Member since Feb 2011
508 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 11:56 am to
Port Vincent is kinda rigged with multiple changing speed limits and limits set way too slow.
Posted by elpolloloco
Parts Unknown
Member since Oct 2011
281 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 11:57 am to
Robeline...saw a cop pass a few cars with his lights on and then stop in the middle of Highway 6 and waived them all over.
Posted by ForLSU56
Rapides Parish
Member since Feb 2015
5582 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 11:59 am to
Woodworth and their keystone cop that goes by the name "Speedy" Gonzales.

For real...Speedy Gonzales
Posted by BiggerBear
Redbone Country
Member since Sep 2011
3164 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 1:02 pm to
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The auditors office has done a report on fines and forfeitures per capita. Though pretty old now (2007) it is still interesting. Click the Adobe attachment in the link to see every city.

Speed Trap Data



Interesting that they are doing it "per capita."

Comparing Baskin, pop. 246, to Woodworth, pop. 1,109, it looks like Woodworth is writing more than twice the number of tickets, assuming that the fines are the same.
Posted by TheDeathValley
Louisiana
Member since Sep 2010
20779 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 1:14 pm to
St. John had a really bad speed trap on I-10 for the longest.
Posted by JBeam
Guns,Germs & Steel
Member since Jan 2011
68377 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 1:16 pm to
Hwy 20 (Especially between Shreveport & Ruston) is the biggest joke in this state.
Posted by Demshoes
Up in here
Member since Aug 2015
10758 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 1:21 pm to
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St. John had a really bad speed trap on I-10 for the longest.


Still do. Black SUV's sit on the side of the road and they are hard to pick up on unless you are looking for them (which I am now).

Total BS revenue generator. I got pulled over 84 in a 70. Cop didn't even ask for my insurance or registration. Took my license, wrote me a ticket and moved on to the next one.
Posted by sumtimeitbeslikedat
Vidalia, La
Member since Nov 2013
5033 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 1:23 pm to
Ferriday hasn’t been as bad as before they busted basically the whole mayors office for corruption and stealing money several years ago. The mayor went to jail for a few months, then the stupid people here went and elected him mayor again! It’s hilarious how dumb most Ferridians are... but waterproofs mayor and st Joseph’s mayor got caught basically doing the same thing and they just got a slap on the wrist... st Joseph mayor stole the city blind when they got funding to upgrade their water system... now, they still have basically sewer water flowing throw “potable” pipes. Speed traps are the least incriminating things most of these small town mayors and chiefs have done in most of these small towns along the river.

I will say that the most police I’ve EVER seen out and about at one time doing nothing but speed trapping have been on the I20 corridor between Monroe and bossier. I didn’t know there were that many trooper vehicles in the whole of north La....
Posted by ForkEmDemons
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since May 2014
2235 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 1:36 pm to
New Llama
Krotz Springs
Stonewall used to be bad for a while
Posted by L5UT1ger
Member since Feb 2004
3098 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 1:50 pm to
Fenton, LA in Jeff Davis Parish.
Posted by sjmabry
Texas
Member since Aug 2013
19072 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 1:53 pm to
117 going from Leesville to Natchitoches used to be bad.
Posted by HuckleBearer
Beauregard Parish
Member since Dec 2017
207 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 2:02 pm to
Woodworth

Reeves

Fenton
This post was edited on 6/20/18 at 2:07 pm
Posted by Litigious Tiger
Actual Join date 2007
Member since Sep 2011
317 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 2:08 pm to
Hwy 190 in/near Basile has a bunch of signs on the side of the road that say "Speed Trap Area"

I don't know who put them there, but I am confident there is an interesting story associated with their presence.
Posted by oleheat
Sportsman's Paradise
Member since Mar 2007
14866 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 2:11 pm to
quote:

They got Stallone in the 80s and if I’m not mistaken they framed the ticket in the old town hall.


I never heard that. Probably their biggest skin on the wall.
Posted by Duckhammer_77
TD Platinum member
Member since Nov 2016
3079 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 2:11 pm to
several years ago, got pulled over by Tensas SO doing about 100 on 605 in a friend's ferrari. Got a warning, no lie. Kind of rare to see that kind of car running between the corn rows I guess. I think the deputy wasn't sure if I was somebody that could cause him problems and he was playing it safe. He was real nice the whole time, let him sit in the car, we talked about it and all.
Posted by Eric Stratton
Faber College
Member since Mar 2015
2056 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 2:17 pm to
Sicily Island..... get a ticket there almost every football season.
Posted by Duckhammer_77
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Member since Nov 2016
3079 posts
Posted on 6/20/18 at 2:17 pm to
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a bunch of signs on the side of the road that say "Speed Trap Area"

between Jacksonville, FL and Gainesville are three little speed trap towns, the worst being Waldo & Lawtey. The AAA actually bought a billboard warning motorists coming from J'ville that Lawtey was a speed trap ahead. The next billboard was the police chief saying how they "work hard to save lives".

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