And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Whenever I would pull over a speeder with one on the dash (or trying to hide it under the seat with the cord still plugged in, lol) they would invariably ask for a warning....I'd tell them their warning was on their dash. Sign here, press hard.
I had an early one that was set up as a remote, installed behind the grill, with a few LED's on an unobtrusive dash layout. I read somewhere a long time ago that radar detectors and radar gun manufacturers were pretty much the same companies, all located in Connecticut - where detectors were illegal to have in the car.
Having to travel in my sales job all up and down the East Coast, I had several versions of radar detectors. Since I drive "expeditiously" and with "dispatch", they certainly saved me many speeding tickets and point on my driver's license. Like "Annie" #2, one of my fuzz busters was mounted in the front grill and the rear bumper. I forge the brand but the promised to pay for any speeding tickets in the first year of ownership. One day I was zooming south on I-95 in Maryland on my way to DC. Another car and I were "racing" each other as we approached one of the roadside rest areas. Up on the hill was a state highway cop in a cruiser. Since my detector did not go off, I figured that he was on break and not looking for speeders and so I did not slow down. All of a sudden, the detector went off like crazy and so I down shifted and waited for the cop to pursue me. He asked me to come sit in his cruiser which I did, and he commented that I had "one of those new-fangled radar detectors" but he got me anyway. I asked him how that happened, and he said that he had an "instant on" radar contraption that did not give off a warning signal. I then told him that it did not matter since the company was going to reimburse me for whatever fine that he wanted to put on the ticket. He was a bit perplexed, and I got my money back.
And yes, Connecticut and Washington, DC, still has laws preventing ownership and use of radar detectors. And they actually have radar detectors-detectors that can bust you for using one in your car. But then they also have radar detector scramblers the thwart the cops.
Back in the days before laser speed detection, laws against radar detectors were being beaten in court since the FCC regulates radio transmissions. There is no way a law preventing you from receiving a radio transmission is legal. If it were, then they could prevent you from receiving all kinds of conservative news transmissions. Slippery slope.
Tried using one back in the 80s in west Texas. It was going off at every railroad crossing on the left side of the road and I ended up getting nailed out there for not trusting it. This was back in the days of "I can't drive 55".
Now that I am older and the speed limits are back to sane, I find no need for one.
Whenever I would pull over a speeder with one on the dash (or trying to hide it under the seat with the cord still plugged in, lol) they would invariably ask for a warning....I'd tell them their warning was on their dash. Sign here, press hard.
ReplyDeleteI had an early one that was set up as a remote, installed behind the grill, with a few LED's on an unobtrusive dash layout. I read somewhere a long time ago that radar detectors and radar gun manufacturers were pretty much the same companies, all located in Connecticut - where detectors were illegal to have in the car.
ReplyDeleteHaving to travel in my sales job all up and down the East Coast, I had several versions of radar detectors. Since I drive "expeditiously" and with "dispatch", they certainly saved me many speeding tickets and point on my driver's license. Like "Annie" #2, one of my fuzz busters was mounted in the front grill and the rear bumper. I forge the brand but the promised to pay for any speeding tickets in the first year of ownership. One day I was zooming south on I-95 in Maryland on my way to DC. Another car and I were "racing" each other as we approached one of the roadside rest areas. Up on the hill was a state highway cop in a cruiser. Since my detector did not go off, I figured that he was on break and not looking for speeders and so I did not slow down. All of a sudden, the detector went off like crazy and so I down shifted and waited for the cop to pursue me. He asked me to come sit in his cruiser which I did, and he commented that I had "one of those new-fangled radar detectors" but he got me anyway. I asked him how that happened, and he said that he had an "instant on" radar contraption that did not give off a warning signal. I then told him that it did not matter since the company was going to reimburse me for whatever fine that he wanted to put on the ticket. He was a bit perplexed, and I got my money back.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Connecticut and Washington, DC, still has laws preventing ownership and use of radar detectors. And they actually have radar detectors-detectors that can bust you for using one in your car. But then they also have radar detector scramblers the thwart the cops.
Back in the days before laser speed detection, laws against radar detectors were being beaten in court since the FCC regulates radio transmissions. There is no way a law preventing you from receiving a radio transmission is legal. If it were, then they could prevent you from receiving all kinds of conservative news transmissions. Slippery slope.
DeleteTried using one back in the 80s in west Texas. It was going off at every railroad crossing on the left side of the road and I ended up getting nailed out there for not trusting it. This was back in the days of "I can't drive 55".
ReplyDeleteNow that I am older and the speed limits are back to sane, I find no need for one.