Miata Mailing List: January 1999, Message #1511

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Scott and Woody wrote:

>   My favorite though, was in Rhode Island when they set
> >up a car on the side, with the trunk open and jacked up, looking like
> >someone changing a tire.  Lo and behold, right in front of it, out of view,
> >was a cop running radar and down the road a half mile or so, there must
> >have been 6 troopers ready for the chase in case you didn't see them flag
> >you over
>
> Sounds like a Georgia-type trick. On the way down to Atlanta in '97 for
> the U2 concert, held on Thanksgiving Eve, we were tooling down I-75S.
> >From a distance I noticed a blue car parked on a bridge that spanned the
> interstate. I, of course, wasn't going but maybe 1-2 miles over the speed
> limit, so I *tapped* my brakes to get everything in line. As I went under
> the bridge, there was a trooper sitting in the car with a radar gun, aiming
> it at cars as they were approaching. About .5 miles or so down the road
> there were *at least* 10 trooper cars on the left side of the road, lights
> going, in line, like kids at a carnival ride, waiting their turn to chase
> down them evil, evil speeders.

The best I have ever seen is in PA.  I don't remember the road but it was a 4
lane Interstate through the mountains.  You cam e to the top of the mountain and
the road started down, it went forever. At the bottom of the hill the police
were waiting in force.  About 3/4 of the way down the hill just about the time
you were having trouble controlling your speed because your brakes were starting
to fade they had 1 car with radar shooting you and then radioing ahead to the
case cars.  Thought this was one of the most blatant and dangerous speed traps I
had ever seen.  Get the guy who can't control his speed and then make him try to
stop when you chase him with lights flashing!!

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>




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Larry and The White Knight

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