Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site busch.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!djg From: djg@busch.UUCP (Joe Guilliams) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: (A Sermon on) Radar Surveillance Message-ID: <486@busch.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 20:27:27 EDT Article-I.D.: busch.486 Posted: Tue Aug 13 20:27:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 00:38:39 EDT References: <2493@pegasus.UUCP> <752@dataio.UUCP> <134@drutx.UUCP> Organization: Anheuser-Busch Companies - St. Louis Missouri Lines: 29 Summary: Radar Surveillance and radar detectors... With all this discussion about radar detectors, etc. I've just got to put my two cents worth in... I had never had any tickets for 10 years of driving until this past spring. I don't speed and use my cruise control most of the time. Well, I was on a four lane highway this past spring and met a patrolmen coming the other direction. He crossed the median and flipped on his lights much to my sur- prise. There were only a couple of cars near me. He stopped me for doing 67 when I was doing 55 mph. I had my cruise on and was on a flat stretch of the road. Naturally I was pretty upset about the whole thing but decided my speed- ometer was out of sync and had it checked for $25. The guy told me it would be one mph off at speeds around *80* mph. I now live 200 miles from where the ticket was written and didn't have the vacation time or real belief that I could beat this so paid the fine and forgot it. Guess what. Last friday I got stopped for doing 52 in a 35. Radar again. I absolutely know I wasn't going over 40. I saw the cop pull up to a stop sign long before I crossed his path. What can you do ? I don't feel I can honestly beat the ticket without a $200 lawyer bill so I guess I'll pay the fine and this time I'll probably have points taken off my license (Missouri law). Guess what I'm going to buy ??? Damn straight! A radar detector... Even if they are illegal (I don't think they are here). So I can speed ? Nope. So I dont get another ticket. Radar is the biggest ripoff around. -- Joe Guilliams ..!ihnp4!we53!busch!djg The Anheuser-Busch Companies; St. Louis, Mo.