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From: wiz@xroads.UUCP (Mike Carter)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Bad News- Lasers replace Radar guns
Summary: Attack of the laser Pigs
Keywords: radar laser police
Message-ID: <936@xroads.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 90 01:10:25 GMT
References: <7263@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <349@egrunix.UUCP> <1061@khijol.UUCP>
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Organization: Crossroads, Phoenix, Az
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In article <1061@khijol.UUCP>, erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp) writes:
> 
> Interesting idea.  Put a couple of unfocused halogen bulbs on your car and
> presto! -- instant laser jammer.
> 
> I HATE radar/laser (and I'm an ex-cop).
> -- 
> Ed Carp                 N7EKG/5 (28.3-28.5)     uunet!cs.utexas.edu!khijol!erc
I can see it now... 4 years down the road...during the day cars go by with
glittering fountains of bright light explosions and at night laser
beams zip back and forth. The cops, now in desparation from all of
the counter measures, counter-counter measures, and legal laser tape
resort back to stop-watch ticketing and highway shadowing to match
speed tactics. The public, enraged by this starts a massive legal campaigne
to BAN the SPeed limit entirely. This in turn succeeds, the polic departments
loose major amounts of funding and turn to busting jaywalkers.
     In the meantime, the freeway carnage has reached an all time high..
ambulance crews now spend their shifts spaced 2 miles apart on the freeways.
Radar detector door stops are in vogue and laser cannon jammers are hung
from rear view mirrors and gain the status much like that of those furry
dice dingle balls you see in low-riders.
 
And to think the cops believed the public wanted the speed limits to be
enforced anyway...
 
"There is a certain resolute madness in the art of avoiding defeat."
 
  
   -Harllan Ellison
    ailiamentary canal extraordinaire