Jodi -
My dad grew up in VA and I am there several times a year to visit family .
He is also a truck driver .
>From what I have heard , there is in fact a radar detector detector .
I think it's called the Stalker or something like that .
You can very well get a ticket in VA for having a radar detector , and if
they pulled you over and saw it , they *will* confiscate the detector .
This is just one more reason that I would NEVER live in VA or any other
Commonwealth state .
You see , VA is a Commonwealth , not actually a state . It is somewhat
similar to a socialist republic .
There are many laws in VA , as well as other Commonwealths , that are
basically retarted and ludicrous .
That's why everyone drives so damn slow in VA (except for you) . They're
all scared to damn death of the police .
My dad told me that many years ago , and who knows , maybe today , that all
a State Patrol officer in VA had to do to arrest you for DUI was walk into
a bar , point out and identify whomever he wanted , and haul them in .
There was no breathalyzer , no blood test , and no defense .
He also told me of one case in which he was a child and he and his friends
were putting gravel on the railroad tracks (this is extreme southwest VA in
Wise county where trains and coal mining are plentiful) . This has been
something that people have always done and will always do , no real harm in
it either .
Well , he tells me that this State officer drives by and ses what they are
doing .
The guy hauls them all in to the local station .
He ended up actually trying to push a case for battery against the cop (it
seems that one of the rocks snapped off the tracks in his car's general
direction , never hitting him or the car) and he was just generally an
asshole .
I know that no-one has any way to verify these stories , but I have been to
VA many times and have seen how the government works up there .
IT SUCKS !
At 09:23 AM 10/2/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>My b/f has a radar detecter that somehow has 3 detectors built in. (and
>this is in VA) I have heard about the "detector detectors" but I have
>never heard of anyone that has gotten caught by one. (He has his
>detectors in his Trans Am and gets pulled over all the time....never has
>he gotten caught for that.) The only time I've heard of people getting
>caught the cops actually SAW the detectors and they had to throw them on
>the ground and smash them up...they didn't get ticketed. Perhaps they
>were just very lucky.
>
>-Jodi
>jlewis@sharetech.com
>'98 Dakota Sport
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Z-Sykes [SMTP:MSykes@su.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 1998 9:35 PM
>> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>> Subject: Re: DML: Youngest Member -Reply -Reply
>>
>> >>> guess it's about time I invested in a
>> radar detector. I know they're illegal in a lot of places but I've
>> seen them
>> where the owner took the assembly apart and installed the sensor in
>> the
>> grill
>> and put the display built into the dash below the speedometer.<<<
>>
>> That's a great idea, and I too have thought about doing that. But,
>> here in
>> the Commonwealth of Va, they have detector detectors that detect your
>> detector before your detector detects their radar. They bust you
>> before
>> you even know they are there! The Troopers that I've talked to say
>> that
>> when there detector goes off, they turn the radar off, or switch to
>> laser
>> and get ya' as you drive by by flashing the radar on then off really
>> quick
>> and getting a reading right as you go by. All your detector tells you
>> is that
>> you just got busted. Man, Va. sucks sometimes... =(
>>
>> -mike d.
>
>
Jack Hilton
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