I went through Amidon myself in August of 2003. I don't remember the patrol car, maybe because I was fretting about running out of gas at the time -- especially once I realized there was no place to buy gas in Amidon.
Anyway, I recently ran across someone else's photographs of the "speed trap":
http://www.sorabji.com/2002/road_trip/north_dakota/amidon/
Bill Ward
Barrington, Rhode Island
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