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- From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
- Subject: Re: flavors of MA cops: what the hell is the registry police?
- In-Reply-To: savoia@sw.stratus.com's message of 30 Dec 1992 19:05:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <C03DA3.nB@tegra.com>
- Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
- References: <RG.92Dec25185605@nymph.msel.unh.edu> <1hsrt9INN7tl@transfer.stratus.com>
- Distribution: ne
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:34:50 GMT
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- In article <1hsrt9INN7tl@transfer.stratus.com> savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia) writes:
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- In article <RG.92Dec25185605@nymph.msel.unh.edu>, rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:
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- > I've seen at least statewide cops with apparently three different types of
- > jurisdiction; can anyone shed some light on this to a country bumpkin who
- > moved down from NH?
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- Well, let's see, there are local police, MDC police, state police,
- registry police. You don't see as many registry police
- since I believe they are being slowly wittled out.
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- No, there are State Police only since the three forces were combined a
- year or two ago. I still see the differently marked cars but they are
- technically the same now.
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- > Finally, I heard that Beantown Harley pigs were using lidar guns in one of the
- > downtown tunnels at 10pm the other night, and that there was a whole line of
- > cars pulled over just past the end.. anyone else seen instances of these Evil
- > and Unwholesome devices in use?
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- First of all, what's a Beantown Harley pig and second what's
- a lidar gun?
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- Boston motorcycle policeman. LIDAR is laser radar, using a laser beam
- to measure your speed instead of microwave radio.
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- jv
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