Welcome to Hampton, the small Florida town that could get erased

Washington Post ^ | 3/11/14 | Mark Berman

[SoFloFreeper]

Hampton, Fla., has fewer than 500 residents. It’s a tiny blip you pass through on the drive between Gainesville, home of the University of Florida, and Jacksonville. The city is known mostly for being a notorious speed trap right near Gainesville.

Now, thanks to a damning state audit released last month, the place might get dissolved. (Think about that for a second: This is the city that might be too far gone for Florida, a state that should be impossible to shock, a state where the chief export is bizarre news.)

The audit reported a host of problems: unreliable accounting, a lack of oversight, duplicated paychecks, missing deposits, lost records, a failure to correct errors, an absence of written policies, lost revenue and other irregularities.

[SoFloFreeper]

Lots of crooked cops, is what it looks like.

[SoFloFreeper]

Florida news ping....any FREEPers from Hampton?

[Vigilanteman]

Sounds like a miniature version of DC. Only not quite as corrupt and nowhere near as greedy.

[Joe Brower]

It seems that, as America continues downward in its decades-long moral decay, abuses of power are becoming more and more commonplace at every level of authority.

Florida Freeper

[Buckeye McFrog]

Great. Now when will they do something about Summersville, WV?

[MplsSteve]

OMG, a story about crooked cops in Florida?! I’ve never read anything like this before.

(sarcasm)

[WayneS]

Another victim of that crazy “stand your ground” law...

[thejokker]

From what I’ve heard think: old-time Moonshiners/Pot growers.

[thejokker]

From what I’ve heard think: old-time Moonshiners/Pot growers.

[pegleg]

Got a ticket there once

[Jim from C-Town]

This is not a new thing. We have a notorious ‘town’ called linndale in Cleveland that is strictly a place for revenue enhancement through traffic tickets. The state finally closed their ‘mayor’s court’ and now they are in big financial difficulty.

http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2013/08/linndale_the_tiny_village_know.html

[USMCPOP]

Hampton is only a few miles from Waldo, which is notorious for their speed traps.

[KarlInOhio]

That sounds like the unmourned ex-village of New Rome, Ohio famed for speeding tickets and the Double-wide of Justice.

http://www.newromesucks.com/main.html

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“We have a notorious ‘town’ called linndale in Cleveland “

Jim,
Don’t forget about Northfield Village, on Rt. 8, South of Bedford. If the sign says 25 mph, don’t go 27!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Someone once offered to sell me a house in Waldo, Ohio.

Just couldn’t do it. Couldn’t deal with the daily stand-up routine of

“Where do you live?”
“Waldo.”
“Where’s Waldo?”

[Buckeye McFrog]

I once got a ticket in Wauseon for doing 42 in a 35 cornfield. The city limits went a mile or two beyond the last building in town. They’d sit there with their lights off and ring people up all night long as they began to speed-up on the open road.

[tet68]

The audit reported a host of problems: unreliable accounting, a lack of oversight, duplicated paychecks, missing deposits, lost records, a failure to correct errors, an absence of written policies, lost revenue and other irregularities.

And this is different from Washington D.C. how?

[moonshinner_09]

change the town name to Washington D.C., replace the police with Congress and you’ve got the Obama administration..

[postal patty]

The mayor was arrested last year for selling oxycodone.