[UA] archetypal corrupt small-town cops

[Mattias Östklint]

For a delightful old-school approach to that particular subject, check out
Kiplings short story "The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat".

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For the archetypal corrupt small-town cops, check out
http://www.newromesucks.com/main.html

The site does the story more justice than I can, but New Rome was basically
a town in Ohio where most of the residents belonged to the police force.
Despite the town's small size, it employed more cops than most cities, had
absolutely insane fines for any type of traffic violation and police
officers usually made six-figure salaries. Just about anyone driving
through
the town was pulled over, and the cop went over the car with a fine-toothed
comb, writing up tickets for even the slightest infraction. Violators would
also be required to show up in court instead of paying fines by mail, even
if they lived in another state. New Rome cops even went so far as to travel
out to other cities, track down people who missed their court dates and
arrest them, even if it was for going three miles over the speed limit.

Apparently, the people who started the above website were successful in
getting the town dissolved, but there's nothing to say that your
roadtrippers can't run into a similar situation. Whether there's an occult
mastermind behind it or if they're just the most corrupt officials one's
ever seen is up to you.

>From Whom It May Concern,
Rich Ranallo

"The world is filled with people who are no longer needed, and who try to
make slaves of all of us. And they have their music and we have ours... And
without their musical and ideological miscarriages...we'd not have any
opposite to compare music with, and like the drifting wind, hitting against
no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power."
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