From: utzoo!laura
Newsgroups: net.auto
Title: why you cant use Fuzzbusters in Ontario 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2254
Posted: Tue Jul  6 11:10:46 1982
Received: Tue Jul  6 11:10:46 1982
References: utcsstat.231 

As I heard it, the  legality was as follows:

	You wouldnt have a Fuzzbuster unless you wanted to exceed the
	speed limit without paying the penalties.

	So if you have a Fuzzbuster, then you have the intention of
	speeding.

	So given that you are probably not caught having it the day you
	bought it before you were given an opportunity to illegally
	break the speed limit, you must have already speeded.

	So having a Fuzzbuster is illegal because its very posession
	implies that you deserve a speeding ticket (or hundred) and that
	you are continuing to speed and be a hazard to other motorists.

I know that one Ontario resident challenged the law and won when he
equipped all the cars of his employees with Fuzzbusters because the
factory where he worked produced characteristic radio signals which would
trigger the fuzzbuster he prurchased under several conditions, some of which
would require his employees to leave the shipping yard which was beside the
employee parking lot for their *own safety* -- he did this after an
accident occurred ... i cant remember the exact details... and he got
off because it was demonstrated that he *did* have a legal purpose to apply
Fuzzbusters.  The law may have tightened up since then, though...

I think that there are other *States* which dont allow Radar Detectors --
Virginia??

laura creighton
decvax!utzoo!laura