Parkin Speedtrap

[bpckty1]

KK4JUG, that reminds me of the PD in Arkadelphia, AR, in the late 1960s. At night they would sit in the alleyway near Main St. and keep the light on the highway red until the out of town driver decided the light was stuck and proceed across Main St. on a red light.

One night the officer stopped a driver and asked him why he had run the red light. The driver explained about the stuck light. The officer then asked him where he was from where he could run red lights, and the driver said, "Chicago." The officer then asked why the car had Illinois license plates if he was from Chicago. The driver then asked the officer to write the ticket so he could continue his journey.

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[KK4JUG]

KK4JUG, that reminds me of the PD in Arkadelphia, AR, in the late 1960s. At night they would sit in the alleyway near Main St. and keep the light on the highway red until the out of town driver decided the light was stuck and proceed across Main St. on a red light.

One night the officer stopped a driver and asked him why he had run the red light. The driver explained about the stuck light. The officer then asked him where he was from where he could run red lights, and the driver said, "Chicago." The officer then asked why the car had Illinois license plates if he was from Chicago. The driver then asked the officer to write the ticket so he could continue his journey.

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I was born in Ft. Smith but lived deep in the Ouachita part of the mountains north of Ozark. I can believe that. I still have some relatives living there in Franklin County with no electricity or plumbing.

 

[flythunderbird]

The officer then asked him where he was from where he could run red lights, and the driver said, "Chicago." The officer then asked why the car had Illinois license plates if he was from Chicago.

Every now and then, when someone asks me where I'm from and I tell them "West Virginia," they reply with, "Oh, where in western Virginia are you from?" When I say, "no, no, West Virginia," they ask, "Where's that?" They don't know that there's an actual state named West Virginia. :roll:

 

[INDY72]

Actual fact checked by professors at SUNY Brockport, Copiah Lincoln CC, University of Southern Miss, and many other colleges yearly: 70 to 75 percent of students can not correctly identify, much less find on an map, ANYTHING outside of their Home Town much less beyond the County they live in. These are the future leaders folks. So if you want to fix the issue here, you have to start with BASIC education from K thru 12.