A speed-trap town finds itself caught up in inquiry (McBee SC)

Charlotte Observer ^ | Jun. 22, 2006 | Sammy Fretwell

[TommyDale]

McBee isn't the only town like that. Mayesvills got me once,
their "speed limit" sign was hidden behind a tree.

[Niteranger68]

I hate this little map speck and NEVER have spent one dime there. A bypass would serve them right!

[fredhead]

[Buckeye McFrog]

Kilbuck Twp, PA and Summersville, WV also need to be investigated

[Sentis]

In Georgia on Interstate 16 between mile markers 46-56 there is continual and forever road construction which is the county's excuse to create a speed trap (no construction actually goes on or if it is this area has had the same construction for over 10-15 years)

Beware of this if you ever cross the state and if you see the sign for the city of Dublin in Georgia know you are close to the area.

[middie]

Add to the list of speed traps: Saguache, Colorado, on U.S. 285 southwest of Pueblo and on the road down to Durango, N.M.

[wideawake]

There should be a speedtrap website for prospective tourists to use.

[Kenton]

There should be a speedtrap website for prospective tourists to use.

Check this out.

[speed_addiction]

On Highway 277 in West Texas about 110 miles from the Mexican border is Schleicher County, Texas. One of the worst speedtraps in the state. Thier interest lies in nothing but slamming a driver with a speeding ticket. They do not even run your license to see if there are warrants out on you. If they ran your license and you had a warrant then the officer would have to bring you in, process you and that would remove him from his tax (fine) collecting duties on the Highway. They won't risk it. The officer hands you your ticket right and off he goes in search of his next victim.


What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.

[river rat]

"There should be a speedtrap website for prospective tourists to use."

There is, right here:

http://www.speedtrap.org/index.html

And, it's kept relatively current...

Semper Fi

[quadrant]

McBee is a speed trap, no doubt. But the worst are along 321 from Savannah to Columbia. Swansea, North, Neeses, Norway, Denmark, Ulmer, Olar, etc are among the worst in the country. Be advised to stay off Highway 321, unless you want to be clipped.

[AppyPappy]

Every NC boy knows the value of hwy 904. You don't go into SC until 17.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Some McBee residents say police have become overzealous during traffic stops***

Translation: They were stopping locals along with outsiders.

[RipSawyer]

McBee isn't the only town like that. Mayesvills got me once,
their "speed limit" sign was hidden behind a tree.

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There have been and still are several towns in SC that have made a practice of setting up signs to encourage people to violate the speed limit. I don't know Mayor Kirkley but sadly it is almost certain that he and I are related. I was born and raised in Chesterfield county and I think I am related to every Kirkley in the area, it was my paternal grandmother's maiden name.

[MissEdie]

I went through the SC town of McCall one day going into North Carolina. When I came back through later that day, not only had they moved the speed limit sign, but they had moved the town limit sign as well- so they could take advantage of an area OUTSIDE their town limits where people were known to speed.

[showme_the_Glory]

Whoooo boy! Now you in a hoe heap of trouble. Cleatus, Boss, and Enos.

[Moose4]

Y'know, I drove 321 that way a few times and never saw a cop? Go figure, I guess I got lucky.

There's a stretch of US 301 through northern Florida that's got several speedtrap towns on it. Also watch the US 460 Bypass around Bedford, VA. Nice wide four-lane limited-access road with a 55 mph speed limit...and Bedford County's finest MEAN IT.

}:-)4

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Add Lake Providence, Louisian to the speed trap list.

[RipSawyer]

I can't speak of the current situation but back in the sixties McCall, SC had a reputation in many states as a place to avoid. I worked for two years in Bennettsville and even the gun toting toughs didn't like to go to McCall. One young man came into work one day looking like a train wreck and reported that he had stopped in McCall and walked into a joint to get a beer. His description of what happened, "I pushed the door open and the lights went out, I don't know who hit me or what they hit me with". I heard one story of a man who was asked to join in a friendly game of pool and declined politely, explaining that he had never learned to play, reportedly he was set upon by two men and beaten with pool cues for his unwillingness to participate in a game of which he knew nothing. It was considered the worst town in a very bad area. I doubt that age has improved it any.