Anybody heard of this?

[JackoliciousLegs]

Or the status?
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[JustinG]

nah, all i knwo is Va and RI are the only 2 fag ass places who dont allow them.

[BLINGMW]

I honestly don't know why any state would allow them. :dunno: Just kind of starts an arms warfare that costs the police (through your taxes) money. Then they have to get detector detectors, you get a detector detector jammer... and so on and so on.... :roll: It's not like there's any legitimate use for them other than eluding police, that's why I'm surprised they're legal anywhere.

[white_2kgt]

I don't think Police should be allowed to use Radar Detectors. So fucking what if I'm going 5-10 over. Pull the guy over that's doing 30 over and using the cars around them as slalom cones. What's next? Radar from the air, oh wait, radar mounted on poles w/ cameras to give automatic tickets? oh wait, what's next? a car that knows the current speed limit and automatically gives you a ticket if you go over it, yep, don't say it won't happen. Remember Demolition Man?

[Ginger]

a car that knows the current speed limit and automatically gives you a ticket if you go over it, yep, don't say it won't happen. Remember Demolition Man?

There was the incidence of the rental car agency attempting to do that. The court the tried their case threw it out saying that the car agency didn't have the right to enforce the law... which was an outright mockery of the renter's legal right to protect their assets. The real reason they wouldn't let it happen (and why you won't get ticketing agents attached directly to cars) is that it infringes on the state's monopoly of ticket revenue collection.

If a county/state/municipal authority needs more money they can step up enforcement. Start issuing 5/10/15 over tickets... you can't issue those tickets if people know that every time they exceed the limit at all they'll be fined - people just won't exceed the limit, either that or people will start seeing the ticket as a 'go faster pass'and think of it as the price of getting somewhere quickly. Either way the state loses.

[Maengelito]

just get an amateur radio broadcasting license and constantly send out frequencies that jam police radar or even better overload it and fry it.

[Apoc]

nah, all i knwo is Va and RI are the only 2 fag ass places who dont allow them.

+DC

[HAULN-SS]

The only reason that they dont allow radar detectors here is because radar is what the cops use. Other states have Laser speed detectors now, which is nearly impossible to detect

[Hunter]

In the comments of that article it says that the ban is only being proposed for the state of florida. Steve Oelrich isn't a US senator, he's just in the florida state senate.

[BLINGMW]

Well Chad, I think the radar or laser detectors are necessary because it gives the cop some hard evidence of the speed the car was traveling. If they didn't have it, it would just be their word against yours and harder to prove. Without it, they wouldn't be able to prove the guy was going 30 over either. And if all they do is ticket the 30 over guy, then they're standing around all day waiting for him, so why not have them generate revenue in the meantime?

And yes, I'm sure they would/will build more automatic ticketing systems if it'll make them $$. Nothing evil about that IMHO. The only "problem" is that the limits are set a bit low in many places, not that they're enforcing them. But I wouldn't be really excited about having cell-phone talking soccer moms and our generally uneducated drivers legally doing 90 down the interstate or 45 through a neighborhood, I don't see how that would help anyone. I've learned to be rather comfortable with our speed limits for the most part.

[white_2kgt]

Well Chad, I think the radar or laser detectors are necessary because it gives the cop some hard evidence of the speed the car was traveling.

There's no 'record' of the speed recorded by the device, so therefore no 'hard' evidence, just what he writes down. The cop can pace me, just like they use to do. This would eliminate those fucking bullshit assholes who stand in the middle of the road and point and cars to pull over. One day one of these jackasses is going to step out in front of me pulling a 26,000lb trailer and he's going to be a new hood ornament, yet it will be my fault. :roll:
They pull this crap all the time here in MD.

[xvxax]

Actually an officer was on rt. 28 in Northern Virginia and stepped out onto a 4 lane highway past me and my trailer hauling at least a ton of brush just to point at someone to pull over. Too confident. Better be glad my truck has good brakes. God bless em.

[BLINGMW]

One day one of these jackasses is going to step out in front of me pulling a 26,000lb trailer and he's going to be a new hood ornament, yet it will be my fault.

Yeah, it is going to be your fault! I'm guessing you're going to have a hard time explaining why you were towing so far over the rating of the truck!

That's pretty funny that they just point you over, I did not know that. But hey, again, it's to make $ while looking for dangerous jackasses. If they can make it even more efficient by not chasing you down, more power to 'em.

Did I share the story about me running over a trooper's hat on the highway? :lol: Well, I did. While he had someone pulled over, it blew off his head. A minor course correction and I flattened it. Laughed for about the next 10 miles.

[white_2kgt]

One day one of these jackasses is going to step out in front of me pulling a 26,000lb trailer and he's going to be a new hood ornament, yet it will be my fault.

Yeah, it is going to be your fault! I'm guessing you're going to have a hard time explaining why you were towing so far over the rating of the truck!

Sure about that? :lol:

[BLINGMW]

I thought that was rated like "up to" 24000 or something like that. Or is that a 550?

*edit* besides, where'd you get that?! 8)

[white_2kgt]

I thought that was rated like "up to" 24000 or something like that. Or is that a 550?

*edit* besides, where'd you get that?! 8)

F450 with the right option package can tow around 26,100lbs. I haven't got it yet :twisted: