Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Robocop spotted (Photo radar)
Summary: Maryland enforcement
Message-ID: <1007@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 88 17:10:08 GMT
References: <829@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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I lived in Maryland in 1979-80.  Maryland was pretty agressive
about enforcing speed laws becuase of its proximity to the law
makers in DC and the gas crisis at the time.

They used to park non-running cruisers on the Balto-Wash parkway
with dept. store dummies dressed up in cop outfits.  They were
pretty effective at getting people to toe the line.

Maryland also had a semi rig called Mother Goose.  A cop would sit
in the cab and bounce the radar off the side mirror at the traffic
coming from behind.  A chase car ahead of the truck would pull out
and nab "violators".  The truck was parked.

My solution to dealing with a photo radar set would be to blind the
camera with a laser.  Tracking the target might be a bit tough.
Perhaps an ordinary intense light would be OK.

--Bill