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Poco Loco

On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:38:18 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:16:32 -0400, KC wrote:

On 10/31/2014 9:09 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:30:15 -0400, KC wrote:

I don't get it.. to me a radar decector means you don't really give a
**** about me or my family, you are gonna' do what ever you want, kind
of like that nurse in Maine who could care less about the quarantine
cause she thinks she is just entitled to put others in danger. Selfish
people use radar detectors to go faster than their elected officials
think they should go to protect themselves and others... and probably
call the cops when somebody speeds by their house, after all, they are
selfish.... lol!

If you lived in Maryland when they were the speed trap state, it would
make more sense to you. 65 on the beltway was not endangering anyone.
Writing tickets for it was simply revenue.

Were they writing tickets for less than ten over?

Yes. 9 over was $20 and one point, 10 over was $40 and 2 points.
Five over generally got you a ticket.
When they did the Beltway at rush hour, usually everyone got a 9 over
ticket. They would shoot the first car in a "platoon" (pack), 20 cops
would jump out in the road and wave everyone over. They would write
like crazy until they were are cited, and do it again.
They usually had the ticket pretty much made out before they got there
and they just put in the time and the name, DL number etc. This was
production speed trapping at it's finest.

If you didn't stop, you got an "evading" ticket and you were in
serious trouble. You might even be arrested and have your car
impounded.

That was when a radar detector was handy. If you had enough warning,
you could drop out of the pack and pull over on the shoulder if
necessary. Usually just being obviously slower than everyone else was
enough but you had the real chance of being hit from behind.

At least one of those pack wolves would be just over the rise up
around the Hwy 4 exit. I haven't seen that since we returned from
Germany back in '91, but they were sure there in the mid-80's and
earlier.