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I heard from a source that they are going to start using non police vehicles doing speed traps. Think those work trucks doing mowing and vehicles typically used in traffic surveys. I saw 2 on I-1 at the Tryon exit last night.
When I used to be a Raleigh PO, we'd sit in a car in the median and run radar then have marked cars lined up on the on ramp at the next exit and they would pull the cars after the officers in the plain jane car in the median radared them and called out the car.
I don't see how that is a speed trap. My understanding of a speed trap is when the speed limit drops a large amount without warning and the sign is typically "hidden" from view by bushes or trees. It's not a trap if you had advance warning about the posted limit.
I don't see how that is a speed trap. My understanding of a speed trap is when the speed limit drops a large amount without warning and the sign is typically "hidden" from view by bushes or trees. It's not a trap if you had advance warning about the posted limit.
Ok, that sound smore like an epsiode of Any Griffith with Barney Fife in teh bushses shooting radar lol!!
A trap is pretty much anytime where you can be driving down the road and not realize you are being hit by radar..as in the unmarled car in the median example I gave.
Your version is a possibility too but I am not so sure that is used around here anymore
A trap is pretty much anytime where you can be driving down the road and not realize you are being hit by radar..as in the unmarled car in the median example I gave.
I wouldn't call that a trap as much as I would call it smart police work. I will admit that I am guilty of having a lead foot, but I knew what the speed limits were and I chose to break them.
I noticed Maryland used to run radar from parked highway maintenance vehicles (tractors, etc) as far back as 1983. I thought it was a little devious back then as I liked to haul some.
Nowadays, well, I've mellowed and appreciate any measures taken to cull out the morons jeopardizing others' safety (even though I might have been one in the old days).
I just wish LE would really attend to roadway menaces more visibly and with less advertisement. I drove for 29 years on MA and got a handful of tickets, but the PO were everywhere enforcing traffic laws and safety. In my 5 years here it really appears to be a lawless land, from interstates on down to country roads.
I keep hearing the budgets are to blame but when is that going to stop being a valid reason? Hasn't been since at least 2005.
When I used to be a Raleigh PO, we'd sit in a car in the median and run radar then have marked cars lined up on the on ramp at the next exit and they would pull the cars after the officers in the plain jane car in the median radared them and called out the car.
Nothing is ever as it seems
Yep, knew this was a tactic. Do you remember when they first opened 540 and had that old car sitting in the median? I think they used a different scenario there...I'm forgetting what it was, a camera maybe? Oh, or a dummy? When that road was brand new, ppls sped like crazy b/c the road was so smooth and easy to drive on, it was like a NASCAR track. Not like the other patched up mess we have around here that feels like you are driving on cobblestone streets of London, bumpedy bump!
*edit* nevermind. didn't see that someone else already posted the WRAL link.
Mike
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