Police set up north of this little town on an open road stretch of Hiway 411 where the speed limit is allegedly 40 mph, although, I completely missed any signs indicating that to be the case. A considerable distance ahead, I saw a vehicle which I suspected was a police car parked just off the road. I checked my speed and was going slightly over 50 mph. I felt this to be well within legal, as well as reasonable, limits so did not attempt to adjust downward. When I passed his position, he could clearly see my out of state tag. Now I have no evidence or information that he took that into consideration when deciding what to do. I do, however, have and opinion. He promply pulled out into the road behind me, pulled me over and ticketed me for allegedly going 60 mph in a 40 mph zone. He instructed me to send a check for $84.50 to the Benton Police Dept. or personally appear in court by a date certain or face additional fines. I plan to send a check. Being an out-of-stater, I don’t have a snowballs chance in hades of prevailing even though right and truth are on my side. I have over time known of these types of traps in many small towns throughout the south. But this is my first time to be personally victimized. The modus operandi is nearly always the same. Take a nice stretch of open road that any rational person would think of as having a normal 55mph speed limit, sneak in an unrealisticly low speed limit, place it under police surviellance, and ticket out of area drivers who are otherwise driving carefully, safely, and behaving normally. All perfectly legal. So be careful out there. These kinds of places have long existed and will no doubt continue to exist long into the future. The states seemingly have no stomach for cleaning them up and in some cases even share complicity.