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From: wchan@umd5.umd.edu (Winthrop D Chan)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Detecting Radar Detectors
Message-ID: <7018@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 90 04:34:32 GMT
References: <324@bally.Bally.COM> <1695@yenta.alb.nm.us>
Reply-To: wchan@umd5.umd.edu (Winthrop D Chan)
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In article <1695@yenta.alb.nm.us> dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
>jkimble@bally.Bally.COM (The Programmer Guy) writes:
>
>>I saw a story on the world news a few weeks ago regarding drivers
>>(primarily 18-wheelers) using radar detectors.  During the news
>>segment, the reporter was talking to a highway patrol officer who was
>>using a device to detect if the oncomming vehicle was using a radar
>>detector.

It seems like that device has been in use for quite a while up in Canada. At
least in Ontario, Canada. I was up there a few weeks ago with a friend and as
soon as we crossed the Border at Buffalo, they snagged us and told us to put
the detector away and it was illegal to use it in Ontario.

Winthrop