Warning ---- Tourists- Relocators-Retirees --Be ca
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8/28/2007
While visiting my family in Dover, I decided to go to the local Walmart. This store is in Camden DE and is a very rural community. Upon leaving the store I got turned around and headed in the wrong direction. Not wanting to get lost, I made a u-turn at the end of the street that had a sign to turn right. Why they make you turn right nobody knows. There was nobody around when I made the u-turn or so I though, except Officer Houser who must have been hiding . About 1/4 mile down the road he pulls me over. Now this happened mid-afternoon. I'm an older fellow, drive a newer family sedan that had west coast plates, and he comes creeping up to the car and stands just forward of the rear door. The way he came up scared me, I figured I must be a suspect in a crime or something , he asks for driver's licence, etc and back to his car. It took him 15 min to get the ticket to me! He comes, explains the ticket,etc, thankyou officer and off I went. After a short while I looked in the rear view mirror and he's following or escorting me out of town, anyway he finally turn off at the city limits. When I got back to the family home and explained what happened, they all burst out laughing, they have been working that sign for months, "that's the way it is in Camden DE". The main street in downtown Camden has a 25 MPH speed limit and don't you go a mile over or "Ticket".
I know one thing, I will never visit Camden DE again.
Frank | Chelan, WA