[net.misc] Getting with the Times in these Pointless Debates

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
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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.

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