Posted on 03/11/2014 8:25:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Hampton, Fla., has fewer than 500 residents. Its 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.
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Florida news ping....any FREEPers from Hampton?
Sounds like a miniature version of DC. Only not quite as corrupt and nowhere near as greedy.
Great. Now when will they do something about Summersville, WV?
OMG, a story about crooked cops in Florida?! I’ve never read anything like this before.
(sarcasm)
Another victim of that crazy “stand your ground” law...
From what I’ve heard think: old-time Moonshiners/Pot growers.
From what I’ve heard think: old-time Moonshiners/Pot growers.
Got a ticket there once
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
Hampton is only a few miles from Waldo, which is notorious for their speed traps.
“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!
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?”
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.
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?
change the town name to Washington D.C., replace the police with Congress and you’ve got the Obama administration..
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