Sean Cole: Have you gotten a ticket going through Linndale?

Man 1: Like four.

Man 2: Oh, I've had them. They're crooks.

Woman 1: Myself. My sister got one.

Man 3: My wife has gotten a ticket in there.

Man 4: Everybody that comes to my house, I tell them, go slow when you go through Linndale because they will give you a ticket.

Woman 2: Yes, they were petty. They blurped me.

Sean Cole: They blurped you, meaning they pulled you over.

Woman 2: Yes. Like coming off on 130th right here, thirsty. I was so mad.

XXX

Mark Gardner: As soon as you see certain signs, like West 65th, I'm approaching Linndale, your foot automatically comes off the gas and you look down just to make sure that you're not going to get pulled over.

Sean Cole: Was that muscle memory for you?

Mark Gardner: Absolutely.

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Tom Patton: And all hail the conquering hero. People thought-- I mean, that's not--

Sean Cole: All hail what?

Tom Patton: The conquering hero.

Sean Cole: That was you?

Tom Patton: I think the way that people responded to it-- there was also, oh, thank God you got rid of Linndale.

Sean Cole: I mean, I get what you're saying that, on its face, it seems cynical to fund your town largely on the backs of speeding motorists. And something just feels unscrupulous about that. But isn't it equally cynical and unscrupulous to devise legislation that would apply to the whole state when you pretty much have this one community in mind over time?

Tom Patton: No, it's not a question of targeting. This happens to be something that-- they're in the media a lot. They get coverage a lot. So it's kind of put in our face. I actually had reporters come and say, now they're doing this. What's your next move?

Sean Cole: Which is the question I have, too.

Tom Patton: And I said, well, it's not a question of making moves.

XXX

Sean Cole: So Linndale is paying an officer to go down there and work out for however many hours.

Ashlee Mclaughlin: We're paying him to monitor the cameras.

Sean Cole: But what does that mean, monitoring the cameras?

Ashlee Mclaughlin: He has to be present, and he has to be within physical eyeline of the cameras.

Sean Cole: For wh-- for what? Is he making sure they're on?

Richard Neff: Ask the legislature. They're the ones that decided that was the requirement.

Ashlee Mclaughlin: If they want officers there, fine. I think we just became a little bit more famous because we're one of the few people that complied with this.

Sean Cole: And you're Linndale-- not to put too fine a point on it.

Ashlee Mclaughlin: Well, you know, we want to comply.

Sean Cole: Does it feel like, Alaska has oil. Pennsylvania has natural gas. Linndale has people going more than 25 miles an hour?

Ashlee Mclaughlin: That's a very funny way to state that. No, I don't look at the criminals as a natural resource.

Sean Cole: No?

Ashlee Mclaughlin: No, I don't.

Sean Cole: I mean, they're going to be there.

Ashlee Mclaughlin: Not if they stop speeding.

Sean Cole: But if they stop speeding, no money.

Ashlee Mclaughlin: We'll be OK.

Richard Neff: If they stop speeding, it's safer. That's our goal.

Ashlee Mclaughlin: Right.

Sean Cole: That's the whole goal?

Ashlee Mclaughlin: Absolutely.

Sean Cole: Really?

Ashlee Mclaughlin: Yes. Yes!


