It's not just small towns that use cops to raise revenue. I lived in a mid-sized Canadian city years ago when I was at uni. Our apartment building was on a dead-end street across a set of railway tracks from a shopping district where the supermarket was. We used to cross the tracks all the time to get food and get to the bus stop because it took less than half as long as walking all the way up to the other end of the street and then over the bridge. But the railway track was privately owned, so eventually the municipality just stationed a cop down there to ticket everyone who cut across the tracks. $250 each time for "trespassing," even when there weren't any trains for hours.
I assume that small town was called 'Europe'.
LOL. Happens here too.
It's not just small towns that use cops to raise revenue. I lived in a mid-sized Canadian city years ago when I was at uni. Our apartment building was on a dead-end street across a set of railway tracks from a shopping district where the supermarket was. We used to cross the tracks all the time to get food and get to the bus stop because it took less than half as long as walking all the way up to the other end of the street and then over the bridge. But the railway track was privately owned, so eventually the municipality just stationed a cop down there to ticket everyone who cut across the tracks. $250 each time for "trespassing," even when there weren't any trains for hours.
Whatever you do, don't speed on Highway 17 near Dryden, Ont. They WILL catch you.
They don't have anything better to do, and there's only the one highway.
I go through that area occasionally. Thanks for the heads up.
Why would the feds care about something that doesn't threaten them? If anything, it creates an opening to insert their own stooges.
The Dukes of Hazzard
(But no, ignore the corrupt cop vs low-level bootlegger angle, let's just cry over the car's paint job - the left)
They're just following the example of the Feds.