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captain queeg

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9. Ha! Didn't everyone? Just kidding, I never got a ticket there but it was a famous speed trap

Reply to gopiscrap (Reply #8)

Fri Oct 8, 2021, 05:55 PM

Oct 2021

I guess I’d heard about it often enough I was always careful going thru town. When I was at WSU there was supposedly some engineering students that went to court and beat a speeding ticket by explaining Doppler radar to the judge, and the cops didn’t have anyone knowledgeable to defend the ticket so it was thrown out.

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Massive Montana Field Fire!!!!!!!! 2021 Wheat Harvest [View all] Ptah Oct 2021 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2021 #1

Those fires take right off. Helped during a harvest on the Palouse in E WA captain queeg Oct 2021 #2

I worked for a short while in Thornton just outside of Oaksdale gopiscrap Oct 2021 #5

He had a couple parcels but the main stuff was over by colfax. captain queeg Oct 2021 #6

I got a speeding ticket in Colfax once gopiscrap Oct 2021 #8

Ha! Didn't everyone? Just kidding, I never got a ticket there but it was a famous speed trap captain queeg Oct 2021 #9

OMG I beat my ticket because the guy gopiscrap Oct 2021 #10

Wow. I guess that's why they had to write so many tickets. captain queeg Oct 2021 #11

I love it gopiscrap Oct 2021 #12

I haven't been there for a long time though I used to work for the Corps of Engineers after college captain queeg Oct 2021 #13

I was at one of those party's once gopiscrap Oct 2021 #14

I think they ran them out of Boyer part over to the other side of the river. captain queeg Oct 2021 #15

Yikes, that was scary! Duppers Oct 2021 #3

my grandparents homesteaded in Saskatchewan Grasswire2 Oct 2021 #4

From five years ago, here is a thread about a fire on my grandparents homestead. Ptah Oct 2021 #7