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From: gritz@homxa.UUCP (R.SHARPLES)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 13:11:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 13:11:21 1985
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>From: lorien@mhuxn.UUCP (CONWAY)
>and I have one question for all you oh-so-distressed people who believe you've
>been wronged because the law prevents you from driving as fast as you want
>anytime you want.  What's your hurry?
>
>In addition, for all you folks who seriously believe it's an invasion of privacy
>to track your speed, let me add that the world is not out to get YOU.  Quite
>the contrary, did you ever stop and think that it might be possible that the
>enforcement of radar and the outlawing of detectors is maintained for the
>*protection* of others from your maniacal behavior on the roads?

I (the original poster) don't speed either.  Unless you are driving hundreds
of miles increasing your speed from 55 to 65 or 70 doesn't save you enough
time to make it worth the trouble (I have a cruies crtl too).

MY POINT IS that I object to the govt. outlawing a device that simply alerts
you to the fact that some cop somewhere is checking your speed.  If you are
speeding, this device may save you a ticket.  If not, which is always my case,
I feel like I have been pulled over and given the hairy eyeball.  And I DIDN'T
EVEN BREAK THE LAW!!  (I don't use a radar detector, I just occasionly notice
some cop sitting there soaking every car on the road with microwaves.)  Cops
should catch speeders, its the law.  But they should go after and use radar,
IR, stopwatches, whatever on cars that look like they are going FAST!  
NOT ME!  I do the speed limit, or 5 under!

And if I decide that I want a radar detector so I can tell when the police
are "searching" my car for its speed then I want to be able to exercise
my right to do that in ALL states (Conn. and Va. included).  

Russ Sharples
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