Menard, Texas Speed Traps

City PD works with the local DPS to ensure that every infraction is enforced. My experiences:
1) was going 3-5 mph over limit. city officer followed me through town and turned on lights after I crossed city limit. Called DPS officer to give me the ticket. Called two more officers to search my car for 40 minutes w/ no probable cause (broke cd player in process). Found nothing. Claimed they did. Let me go the very instant I revealed that my father was a district attorney in tx. Ticket died on bond.

2) Was followed by young sparky officer the entire length of the town until I accelerated to the new higher speed limit too soon. Not only did I get a ticket for going 1(!) mile over the limit, my car was searched again. Junior (who had this “my hands are tied”” attitude) told me that they “”have to search every college student going to Lubbock.””

Finding an alternate route will be the best 15 minutes you ever lost.”