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From: vas@cbnewsi.att.com (vassilios.d.vassiliadis)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Detecting Radar Detectors
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.153212.3725@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 15:32:12 GMT
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In article <6141@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM> vekurpan@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM (Vincent E Kurpan) writes:
>QUESTION:
>
>Why would anyone intelligent enough to build a radar jammer want
>to risk several felony charges and at least one federal offense to
>get out of a $35 traffic ticket.  Anyone with the skills to build
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!!!
>this has a high probability of seeking work with defense companies
>and if convicted of a felony you would not be able to get the
>....
  [more stuff about military jobs and driving within the limit deleted]

Well, I don't know about IL or wherever you are from, but out here in NJ
a speeding ticket will cost you at least double the price you quoted, plus
a surcharge of $150 (at least) in insurance and DMV fees for the next 3
years -if you're caught speeding 15MPH or more above the speed limit (any
doubt that most speeding tickets are given to people driving faster than
that? )

I'm not saying that I'd advise someone to build a radar-jammer, but you
can't say that there is no real reason for someone -maybe someone already
caught a few times...- to toy with the idea. Especially when so many roads
have speed limits so low that a cyclist could get caught speeding :-)) 
obviously for no other reason but to get some poor souls to help the
policeman to fill his quota for the day/week/month/year....

Vas (caught doing 40 on a 25MPH limit road, where you could easily AND
     SAFELY do 55!!! -and many people do, anyway! )


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