View Single Post
Jeff Higgins Jeff Higgins is online now
Registered
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Higgs Field
Posts: 22,811
Quote:
Originally Posted by IROC View Post
I also read a headline recently about a bunch of cops getting tickets from speeding cameras and they were complaining that they shouldn't have to pay them as they have "diplomatic immunity". Whatever. This "do as I say and not as I do" crap sucks.
Ah yes, the great equalizer. I love it. The speed cameras have no idea who they are photographing. Until, of course, they put something like a very prominant blue bear sticker in the back window of their private vehicles...

Here in Washington, we only have red light cameras. All film and photos are "reviewed" by a police officer before a ticket is mailed. "Hey Ed, come here and look at this... is that a blue bear sticker?" "Looks that way to me, Frank." "I don't think I see a violation, do you?"...


Quote:
Originally Posted by IROC View Post
There was a guy on the old porschephiles mailing list (in PA or ME?) that was driving along on a relatively deserted stretch of 4-lane highway when he was passed by a state trooper going well over the speed limit (no lights on or anything). He sped up and basically followed the trooper for a few miles and then the trooper pulled into the left lane, slowed drastically and whipped in behind the guy and pulled him over and wrote him a ticket.
I was very surprised the WSP officer didn't do this to me. I followed him for over ten miles at sometimes triple digit speeds. I was a couple hundred yards back, though. He must have been too focused on that taco.
__________________
Jeff
'72 911T 3.0 MFI
'93 Ducati 900 Super Sport
"God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world"
Old 07-15-2008, 06:24 AM
  Pelican Parts Catalog | Tech Articles | Promos & Specials    Reply With Quote #25 (permalink)