Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: RE: Radar Report Message-ID: <931@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 09:44:22 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxl.931 Posted: Fri Feb 24 09:44:22 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 04:06:57 EST References: <1200@aluxz.UUCP>, <1803@tekig.UUCP> <830@hou5d.UUCP>, <923@ihuxl.UUCP> <576@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 42 > Why do I have this feeling that Mr Seifert is not telling us the whole > story? What was he doing BEFORE he joined up with the other cars? Was > he perhaps changing lanes in an erratic manner? Did he give the high > sign to the policeman? I think there is more to this story than meets > the eye. If the police needed to hand out a ration of tickets, they > would hardly have to pick on someone travelling the speed limit. There > are just too many drivers going faster than that to worry about some poor soul > bopping along at the speed limit. No, I find the story a little bit > hard to swallow. > T. C. Wheeler No I wasn't changing lanes (2 lane street). Or doing anything unusual at all. Just cruising along. Same speed as the cars in front and back of me. Pig pulls in behind me and turns lights on. I pull over. The car in front of me also pulls over (!?). Pig walks up and tells driver of other car he can go, then gives me ticket. Question: the whole group was driving at the same speed, so why didn't car in front of me get a ticket, especially since he pulled over expecting one? He wasn't just picking out the obvious high performance cars to ticket, the car in front of me happened to be a yellow Corvette. (Verses a mild-mannered looking dark sedan) He must have had an axe to grind against foreign cars. Doesn't matter if they grab people actually speeding or not, radar is so accepted in courts, all the pig has to do is say "I clocked him/her on radar" and the "Judge" says "Guilty". In this case his radar WASN'T EVEN ON! The escort never peeped. But who do you think they are going to believe in court? Just mentioning that you have a radar detector is going to label you 'guilty'. Still tired of living in a police state. -- _____ /_____\ Have you hugged your beagle today? /_______\ Snoopy |___| ____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert