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From: daw1@rduxb.UUCP (WILLIAMS)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Police Traps
Message-ID: <331@rduxb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 19:46:49 EST
Article-I.D.: rduxb.331
Posted: Fri Mar 22 19:46:49 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Mar-85 03:47:36 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA
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	There has been some discussion lately about non-radar methods
that cops use to catch us criminals exceeding the speed limit on the
open highway. Sure, sometimes they use "unmarked" cars. You know,
the full-sized sedans with easily-spotted extra-wide tires, rear-
stabilizer bars, blackwall tires and small hubcaps, and the short
high-freq. antenna!! 

	Probably because they had extra money to waste (all those
speeding tickets, you know), the Pennsylvania State Police bought
a group of cool cars about two years ago: Camaros, Firebirds,
Mustangs, etc. Well yours truly was nailed on I-81 in N.E. PA
by an old crab-ass cop in a red Trans-Am. Who would have guessed
a cop was driving it? 

	For whatever reason, the "experiment" didn't last too long,
and they are back to using regular "unmarked" cars. Of course my
travel times are back to normal, too.


				Doug Williams
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Reading, PA
				rduxb!daw1 or rduxb!williams