daw1@rduxb.UUCP (WILLIAMS) (03/23/85)
There has been some discussion lately about non-radar methods that cops use to catch us criminals exceeding the speed limit on the open highway. Sure, sometimes they use "unmarked" cars. You know, the full-sized sedans with easily-spotted extra-wide tires, rear- stabilizer bars, blackwall tires and small hubcaps, and the short high-freq. antenna!! Probably because they had extra money to waste (all those speeding tickets, you know), the Pennsylvania State Police bought a group of cool cars about two years ago: Camaros, Firebirds, Mustangs, etc. Well yours truly was nailed on I-81 in N.E. PA by an old crab-ass cop in a red Trans-Am. Who would have guessed a cop was driving it? For whatever reason, the "experiment" didn't last too long, and they are back to using regular "unmarked" cars. Of course my travel times are back to normal, too. Doug Williams AT&T Bell Labs Reading, PA rduxb!daw1 or rduxb!williams
review@drutx.UUCP (Millham) (03/25/85)
I seem to remember about 10 years ago Maryland had a big speed crackdown where they used old cars, a bakery truck, and a semi for the unmarked cars. -------------------------------------------- Brian Millham AT & T Information Systems Denver, Co. ...!inhp4!drutx!review
mrl@drutx.UUCP (LongoMR) (03/26/85)
>> I seem to remember about 10 years ago Maryland had a big speed >> crackdown where they used old cars, a bakery truck, and a semi for >> the unmarked cars. While driving through Maryland back in 1970, I remember listening to the CB and hearing everyone reporting a radar trap, but no one knew where it was. Finally, someone reported that there was a hay wagon on the side of the road. Apparently, the radar gun was under the hay, with the operator off the side of the road behind some bushes. The chase cars were hiding about 1/2 mile down the road. Pretty sneaky, huh? M. Longo Denver
essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs) (03/28/85)
> Probably because they had extra money to waste (all those > speeding tickets, you know), the Pennsylvania State Police bought > a group of cool cars about two years ago: Camaros, Firebirds, > Mustangs, etc. ... > > Doug Williams In Illinois, the police confiscate cars used for such offenses as cigarette bootlegging, resulting in a wide assortment of unmarked cars (from rusty old hulks to vans to Porches). -- Ed Sachs AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxl!essachs
hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) (03/29/85)
> I seem to remember about 10 years ago Maryland had a big speed > crackdown where they used old cars, a bakery truck, and a semi for > the unmarked cars. > > -------------------------------------------- Don't know about the bakery truck, but they used a semi called "Mother Goose" as recently as a few years ago. =Dave Hsu= (301) 454-4526 ARPA: hsu@cvl hsu@umd2 USnail: Computer Vision Laboratory CSNET: hsu@cvl Center for Automation Research BITNET: hsu@umd2 University of Maryland UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!cvl!hsu College Park, MD 20742