I was heading back to St. Louis, passing through Mount Enterprise in a rented vehicle with Missouri plates. I was in the right lane and adhered to all speed limit signs. I had slowed from 70 to 55 to 50 to 45 and had my cruise control set to ensure I didn’t go over the speed limit. As I approached the only stop light in town I was followed and pulled over in the gas station parking lot and given a ticket saying I was speeding. I told the officer he was incorrect and I knew for a fact I wasn’t speeding. He told me that I could go to the judge and explain it. I told him I wouldn’t be in town and he said it was a personal problem. I called the courthouse before I left only to find out the court was not in, no one was there and this was a Wednesday at 10:30am. Apparently the courthouse was closed for the week? What court does this? When I got home I called Traffic Law Center to see if they would handle this. They told me they do not deal with Mount Enterprise because “the Mount Enterprise court doesn’t necessarily break the law, but doesn’t operate on an ethical level”. I tried to call them literally over 100 times over the next month to try and handle this but not one time did anyone answer the phone. Then I got a bill from them saying that my ticket wasn’t handled in time and was increased from $165 to $881.56. I couldn’t believe this. Then I got a letter from the state of Missouri saying Mount Enterprise had sent a letter to them to suspend my drivers license until it was paid. This is an exact example of a system designed to protect citizens but instead is being twisted to increase the linings of the judge and police in the town. I don’t understand how the state of Texas has yet to step in and stop this from besmirching the reputation of its state.