Speed traps on Hwy 130

[YurtGirl]

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Originally posted by olin137

Getting a ticket for going too fast is one thing. Getting one in an obvious "trap" is something else. My story is the first time on BI I was driving near Volcano. It was a straight-away of about a half mile, with lisght traffic. I had no intentions of passing anyone, but when I hit the straight-away I let the speed get up to about 10 mph over the limit. I got pulled over by two very arrogant acting officers. Yes, I was going 60 in a 50 zone, but there were no side roads to potentially endanger entering/exiting traffic, no other traffic, and the police car was hidden off the road. Now, I don't argue I wasn't over the limit, but was that REALLY the most pressing place on BI for limited police resources to be sitting all day? I would venture that you could observe any of the feeder roads into HPP any day and see a hundred vehicles going 15-30 mph over the limit - mainly older vehicles/pickups. Yet, I've never seen a single one pulled over and getting a ticket. I believe it likely I got the ticket mainly because I was obviously not "local" - rental car.

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What is all this "pressing" business that people think the police should be doing? Where did you discover that we have such "limited police resources" that police shouldn't be doing what the majority of police all over America do? Random traffic stops. I'm not going to complain and blame the cops if they pull me over because I'm breaking the law. Take some responsibility, otherwise you'll always be a victim. I think traffic stops just about anywhere serve a purpose, if you're breaking the law then you can be sure plenty of others do to, rationalizing that it's ok because a, b, c... If you had seen someone else pulled over there then you probably wouldn't have sped through there, right? And by the way, a "trap" isn't a police car tucked away off the road trying to catch speeding drivers, a trap is when somewhat unethical methods are used, i.e., a speed limit going without warning from 55 to 25, much like what we see all along the Hamakua coast.