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- Subject: Lights in Kentucky
- Message-ID: <199212241301.AA11243@cbos.uc.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:46:00 GMT
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- --> All in all, it depends on how that person used it. When I go out of
- -->state, I always pack my Whelan DashMaster II with a red and blue lens. If I
- -->ever come Enter * for previous page
- -->across and accident (and often do) I use it to warn the oncoming traffic.
- -->As always, I travel with my 'stuff' including flares. At least the strobes
- -->can
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- Just don't use them in Kentucky! They take them for their own car or destroy the
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- on the spot.
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- I was working a parade detail --slowing down traffic that was still on the parad
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- parade route.
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- I had an AMBER light on at the request and permission of the chief of police,
- but one of his officers pulled me over and threatened to give me a ticket.
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- At the time, I had been moving along the route as a pace car. I went to far
- and did a turn-around in a company's driveway with my light still on....
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- I shut it off as I pulled back into the street. The cop thought I had used it
- just for the turn-around.
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- Threatened me with a $56 ticket and confiscation of my light. He'd have a
- field day with red/blue on an accident scene.
- Mike
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