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- From: satan@wpi.WPI.EDU (Matthew James Meyer)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 21:49:33 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Lines: 37
- Distribution: ne
- Message-ID: <1ht5hdINNedc@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- References: <RG.92Dec25185605@nymph.msel.unh.edu> <JPT.92Dec30152510@telecaster.think.com> <1ht41pINNb6i@transfer.stratus.com>
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- In article <1ht41pINNb6i@transfer.stratus.com> savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia) writes:
- >In article <JPT.92Dec30152510@telecaster.think.com>, jpt@telecaster.think.com (James P. Taylor) writes:
- >> In article <1hsrt9INN7tl@transfer.stratus.com> savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia) writes:
- >
- >>
- >> Nobody pulls a cop over. If you are stupid enough to follow him at his
- >> speed, then don't cry injustice if you get a ticket!
- >>
- >> Long ago when I took drivers ed in Mass, the state law read that police
- >> vehicles could only exceed the speed limit if they were on "emergency
- >> service".
- >
- >And I ask again: Who's going to pull him over and give
- >him a ticket?
- >--
-
- The rule of thumb is go with the flow of traffic. If you and everybody
- around you is doing 65, no one is going to get pulled over by a state
- cop who pulls up from behind you. I have travelled in the flow of
- traffic as fast as 70mph and had a state cop pass by without a second look.
- Of ocurse if this whole pack of cars rides through a radar trap, thats
- another story, but then let them try and prove that the radar signal
- they got bounced back to them was yours (conventional radar guns just
- pick up the stongest signal, there's no way to tell if its you unless you
- are the only car driving by - of course there is talk of new laser radar
- that can pick out individual vehicles, i don't have any info there)
-
- have fun driving, and always keep one eye on the rear view
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