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From: brad@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Brad Spear)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: RE: Radar Report
Message-ID: <866@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 17:57:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 24 17:57:14 1984
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Reply-To: brad@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Brad Spear)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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In article <923@ihuxl.UUCP> seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) writes:
>
>Call us when you wake up.  In actual fact, the pigs ticket anyone 
>they feel like.  I rather dislike driving along at a legal speed,
>along with several other cars and getting pulled over and being 
>given a speeding ticket supposedly based on radar (which wasn't even 
>on, but try and prove that in court!).  The judges are of course in
>on it, so there's no point in even trying to fight it, unless
>you're F.Lee Bailey, or someone. (Yes, I've tried! That's how I know!)
>
>Radar is for making money. Pure and simple.
>
>		Tired of living in a police state that has the
>		nerve to call itself 'free'.  Maybe it's not as bad 
>		as Russia, big deal!
>		

It's amazing.  Are you sure you didn't get stopped because you flipped the
'pig' off?  From your tone, you have something of a grudge against them.  The
radar was off?  How did you know?  Did the 'pig' tell you?  Do you have the
ability to hear the radar's signal and didn't hear this one?  Did your radar
detector suddenly go on the fritz?  Was it possible your detector was detuned,
or otherwise didn't pick up the cop's radar, which also may be slightly
detuned?

I've PASSED Califorinia Highway Patrol cars on the streets and freeways of
L.A., and never been pulled over.  I've exceeded the 55 limit on two-lane
country roads, passing a cop going the other way and wasn't stopped.

Yes, I know the CHP doesn't use radar, but other states do, and I travel out
of state two or three times a year.  The only times I have been stopped for
speeding by a radar equipped car, I was going faster than the tickets I was
given.  I've been driving for about 10 years, with several cross-country
trips, so I think I have had enough time to get a good impression of traffic
law enforcement policies.

It all depends on your attitude.  Agreed there are going to be some bad cops,
after all, they're only human, but from the attitude of your note, it wouldn't
make any difference in your case.

As to your remark about the U.S. being a police state, I shouldn't comment on
that because I've never been in a police state, but if thats what the U.S. is,
a free state must be total anarchy.  Wouldn't be a very nice place to live,
probably as bad as a police state.

						Brad Spear
						sdcrdcf!brad