Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dual.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!dual!hav
From: hav@dual.UUCP (Helen Anne Vigneau)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: CHP Radar, True Confessions (Really Speeding in Germany)
Message-ID: <980@dual.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 19:42:44 EST
Article-I.D.: dual.980
Posted: Fri Mar 29 19:42:44 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Mar-85 02:37:30 EST
References: <2500013@hplabs.UUCP> <2500015@hplabs.UUCP> <1543@watcgl.UUCP>
Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA
Lines: 37

=> >In Germany, it's all automated.  You drive across two sensors, and if
=> >you are going too fast, they take a picture of your license and your
=> >ticket comes in the mail a week or two later.

=> I was revisiting Bavaria this summer, and an old friend who occasionally
=> drives cab in Munich had a few interesting tidbits to offer:

<first war story>

=> In a second case, a twisty stretch of Autobahn posted a slow 40km/hr limit for
=> road maintenance. A sensing unit was installed, and in one humorous case, the
=> "evidence" showed a severly blurred 911 in the first frame, and a peaceful
=> stretch of 'Bahn in the second. Estimates placed the car' speed at >150km/hr,
=> but of course "the camera must've malfunctioned", and there was no ticket.

=> BTW, I guess pot holes didn't impede the Porsche's forward progress. :-).

One of my German cousins (who works in Frankfurt and whose work keeps him on
the road *a lot*) told me of a similar story about a car full of guys who
felt the urge to drive too fast past one of these sensor widgets.  Seems they
covered the license plate with cardboard, drove past the sensor at an
excessive rate of speed (but of course not so fast that they would be out of
focus).  So the police get the picture, and what does it show?

THEY HAD ALL HUNG THEIR BARE ASSES OUT THE WINDOWS OF THE CAR!!!  (Of course,
it's probably wise to cover your license plate when untertaking this sort of
monkey business . . . *I'd* hate to be the one explaining to the nice
officer.)

Helen Anne

     {ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!hav 

             If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
             perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
             Let him step to the music he hears,
             however measured or far away.