Sounds like me... living with a dad who is a State Trooper, well, you kinda
learn a few things. I have the bear tracker also, but I have found it to be
completly useless and annoying. It seems to take a liking to La. DOT
vehicles!
And that is some VERY sound advice.
My problem is not with speeding, it is with my tint. Got pulled over today
for my tint. Was doing 45 in a 55 3rd in a row of 3 cars. He bout broke his
neck to look into my windows. He asked me if I knew my tint was darker
than legal. I was like yeah, it is about 8%.0 He said You know what the limit
is? I says 41% =] Then, he says the one thing that gets me out of most
all of my tickets.... My LSTA (La. State Troopers Assoc.) sticker in my back
window. After telling him who my pop was , he says, better not see it next
time or I will give you a ticket, no matter who your dad is.
Whew! that would have been a $133.50 tint ticket
Well, debating now as to peeling the tint or not. Reallllly don't want to...
like it tooooo much.
Think I will take one more chance with it and see what happens. I have had
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"mark janke" <sftvboy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:20010106164235.60992.qmail@web9607.mail.yahoo.com...
> 2 tickets in a month, wow. Just because you get a
> radar detector doesn't mean you won't get another one
> though. You realize that cops don't need radar to
> spot someone speeding. In fact I rarely ever see cops
> using radar around here. Most times they can pace you
> or compare your rate to the cars around you to single
> you out. They really do know what too fast just looks
> like even when you're the only car. I use a radar
> detector (K. Ka, X and laser detection) and the uniden
> bear tracker which gives you a warning on highway
> patrol units. But even with these devices I watch
> like a hawk in my mirrors at all times. I look far
> ahead and far behind. You really should learn the
> areas you like to speed in so you know where the cops
> generally are. You should also be able to recognize
> the cop cars at a great distance. I generally never
> speed at night but when I do I can recognize the
> headlights and marker light configuration on cop cars.
> There's lots of tricks to speeding to learn...like
> having a blocker car who will get hit with radar from
> in front before you will etc. etc. When you get a
> radar detector you need to learn what the false alarms
> you'll get, like everytime you go by the grocery store
> or the fast food joint and your X band goes off like
> crazy.
>
> You don't need some $300 or $400 detector. Get one
> for like $120 with all the bands and learn how to use
> it.
>
> Good luck. Hope this helps.
>
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