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From: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker)
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Subject: Re: CHP Radar, True Confessions
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 15:42:41 EST
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> Low flying planes can clock your speed. It is done in New Jersey
> on the Garden State Parkway, where helicopters are used. (There is
> a sign posted stating that helicpoters are used). In the trap area
> there are usually white lines across two points on the road, the helicoter
> times you between these two points.

In California, timing a car between those two white lines can be
judged to be gathering evidence without probable cause for
suspicion. The police aircraft fly their own shadow down the road
and adjust their speed so that the shadow is doing 55, don't ask
me what sort of plane can fly so slow, I'm just telling you what
was explained to me.

The moral of the story is "never pass an airplanes shadow"

Mike @ AMDCAD