Driving around in the suburbs of Chicago where I live, I notice a large number of cars sporting radar detectors.
I've been lucky enough to never have received a speeding ticket either here or the UK (I left the UK before the Gatso craze really took hold). So I've never thought about having one.
I'd like to ask the forum: has a radar detector ever saved you from getting a ticket? I don't mean the GPS units which have the speed camera locations programmed in, but the ones informing of a radar source.
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I'm sure the only reason nobody has answered this is that they could never know whether a detector had saved them!
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Well I'd assume they'd pass a police patrol with a speed gun having had prior warning to reduce speed!
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Oh - in that case, it wasn't why nobody answered.
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Mine saved me on at least three occasions. The most memorable one was travelling along the dock road to Liverpool. It was a Saturday afternoon and hardly any traffic. The road is a single carriageway and very wide. I had a colleague with me who was sceptical about my Snooper detector. I was exceeding the speed limit and the Snooper started beeping so I slowed down to the limit. It continued to emit a higher pitched signal, and about a good mile further on there was a Police Inspector hiding behind a wall clutching a radar gun. Needless to say my colleague was very impressed.
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My hire car in Spain last year was fitted with a radar detector that worked through the headlights of cars coming the other way. Having eased back to the limit when one such car flashed, I was overtaken by a couple of other cars, and felt quite sorry for them when I saw them chatting with ploddo just past a hillcrest...
I think we should all wire ourselves into this system in both roles.
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Lud
You're surely not suggesting a conspiracy to Obstruct the Police in the execution of their duty?
An AA man was once sent to the Scrubs for that. He sent his employers a letter informing them of his plight - and they replied thanking him for notifying them of his new situation and telling him that they had stopped his pay!
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You're surely not suggesting a conspiracy to Obstruct the Police in the execution of their duty?
It's only a conspiracy if people actually conspire and are proven to have conspired. Otherwise it's just normal consensus behaviour.
Anyway it isn't obstructing them in the execution of their duty. It's saving them from a lot of very tedious conversations and form-filling. Their duty is to lurk beside main roads with their hands full of expensive equipment, trying to look inconspicuous. How can one possibly obstruct an innocent plod from doing that?
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Locally, there is a case going through of a chap who had a laser jammer fitted to his car to defeat speed traps.
Plod saw their laser was being jammed, pulled guy over, and off we go to court ...
The big debate is now that the authorities want to confiscate his car, under the 'instrumentality' law - the instrument of the crime becomes forfeit to the state, and in this case it was not just speeding, but the willfullu and knowingly going out of his way to obstruct.
Will be interesting to see if the Prosecuting Authority get their way.
On the same law, there have been several confiscations of vehicles driven by 'serial' drink-drivers.
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Mine saved me on at least three occasions. The most memorable one was travelling along the dock road to Liverpool. It was a Saturday afternoon and hardly any traffic. The road is a single carriageway and very wide. I had a colleague with me who was sceptical about my Snooper detector. I was exceeding the speed limit and the Snooper started beeping so I slowed down to the limit. It continued to emit a higher pitched signal, and about a good mile further on there was a Police Inspector hiding behind a wall clutching a radar gun. Needless to say my colleague was very impressed.
if he was hiding behind a wall how did you see him?
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Probably because his head would have been sticking over the wall so that he could see what he was doing and his arm would be visible, pointing the device down the road. Partially concealed would seem to be the real definition, or "trying to hide"!
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Probably because his head would have been sticking over the wall so that he could see what he was doing and his arm would be visible, pointing the device down the road. Partially concealed would seem to be the real definition, or "trying to hide"!
The wall was at right angles to the road. You certainly couldn't see him from about one mile away. The car was behind the wall and could only be seen when you drew level.
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if he was hiding behind a wall how did you see him?
Very simple really. He became visible when I drew level with him.
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"The most memorable one was travelling along the dock road to Liverpool"
Apart from the M58, the Dock Road is Liverpool's longest dragstrip....
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