Cops are now flying planes to clock your speeds.
10-23-2007, 03:51 AM
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Cops are now flying planes to clock your speeds.
Cops are now flying planes to clock your speed on the ground.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...ne.html?al=158
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...ne.html?al=158
10-23-2007, 06:13 AM
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He's as bad as Can
What I used to see on the NJ turnpike was Hwy maintenance vans on overpasses shooting radar for a trooper half a mile up the road. But the money they can make with a plane more than pays for the program and the tickets are based on math which is hard to beat.
10-23-2007, 08:41 AM
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That article was about the Ohio State troopers. I was caught by the Sheboygan County police (Wisconsin) back in the mid-80's. They were using an airplane to check the speed of drivers going through the small town of Waldo. The speed drops from 55 mph to 35 for a distance of about 200 yrds.
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10-23-2007, 08:42 AM
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Add another to that tally. From my years of living in California, Illinois, and Missouri....this has been going on for as long as I can remember. They post signs in the areas where they most commonly conduct this.
10-23-2007, 09:10 AM
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That article was about the Ohio State troopers. I was caught by the Sheboygan County police (Wisconsin) back in the mid-80's. They were using an airplane to check the speed of drivers going through the small town of Waldo. The speed drops from 55 mph to 35 for a distance of about 200 yrds.
10-23-2007, 10:32 AM
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10-23-2007, 11:29 AM
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10-23-2007, 11:35 AM
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He's as bad as Can
10-23-2007, 11:39 AM
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My question is, if you take a airplane speed ticket to court, do both the flying officer and the officer that wrote the ticket have to be present. If just the ticketing officer was there, the ticket was wrote on hear-say evidence and should be thrown out.
10-23-2007, 12:58 PM
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they've been doing this on the roads out to Vegas for EVER.
10-23-2007, 08:30 PM
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And the motivation for doing this is because it is a sh*tload more fun (and profitable) than going after REAL criminals Speeders have reached the equivalent value of terrorists with weapons of mass destruction (oh ya, that's right........there weren't actually any weapons of mass destruction, were there?). The real reason there are accidents is that 95% of people suck at driving regardless of the speed.
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