I mounted an Escort Passport 8500 in my wife's Volvo XC90 V8 about two weeks ago. Told her to slow when it beeps (she's not very electronic-savvy).
Yesterday, she's "cruising" down a large lightly-traveled median-divided road and gets pulled over by a motorcyle unit hiding in the shadows... even though she saw him and had slowed by the time she passed.
The officer tells her she was clocked by radar. My wife questions (the officer, no less!) why the detector didn't go off. He laughs and says it was laser.
That sucks.
She gets written for 65 in a 50 zone. I'm not mad, she deserved the ticket (her first in nine years).
So, I have a new respect for laser guns. I had never really considered them an issue. I have been "saved" countless times on that same road with my 8500 detecting "Ka" and "K" hits, so this was bound to happen. No detector could have saved her.
I need to buy an effective laser jammer (or paint her Volvo flat back)!
