wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) (04/20/84)
Do you actually mean tat the police patrol in Boulder? That they are meant to be obvious. You people are really behind the times. Around Naperville the only police cars they buy anymore are the camoflague painted traffic enforcement units (revenue cars, not patrol cars) that are specially designed for hiding under rocks and bushes. And of course, we still have many undercover traffic enforcement cars. I think that the only time they use old-fashioned cruisers anymore is for giving the tickets a half mile down the road after the unmarked have gotten you for 38 in a 35. Actually for $50 and court supervision. (The reason for court supervision is so that you won't lose your lisence with three moving violations... then how could the police department show a profit.) Yea, I remember police patrol cars... but will your children? Still waiting for the bolt from the skies, Walt Pesch AT&T Technologies ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch
scw@cepu.UUCP (04/27/84)
Speaking of Volkswagons as patrol cars. The first VW bug that I saw as a partol car was in Wilmington NC (Famous for the Battleship North Carolina and as the last open port of the Confederacy) back in 1970. It was painted the same color as the regular WPD patrol cars and had the same light bar on the roof. The only problem was that the light bar was designed for a HUGE Chrysler Interceptor (the same cars that CHP and NCSP used) so that it hung over the sides of the Vdub by about 8" on each side. ---------------------- | B | R | | R | B | --\---------------/--- \-------------/ / \ | | | | -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-locus location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"