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From: gts@dasys1.UUCP (G. T. Samson)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,sci.electronics,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (Ka band)
Summary: W. German anti-photo license plate treatment
Keywords: radar, cops, Ka, X, K
Message-ID: <8740@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 89 16:14:48 GMT
References: <603@icus.islp.ny.us> <7944@netnews.upenn.edu> <249@turbo.RAY.COM> <353@corpane.UUCP>
Reply-To: gts@dasys1.UUCP (G. T. Samson)
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In article <353@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:

> [detector that closes shutter over your license plate, with nasty
> message on it, or the Chief of Police's plate...]

In West Germany, a friend told me, the way they nail people for driving
through red lights at night is also automated; when you pass through
a red light, a flash goes off, lighting up your rear plate for a picture.

Someone figured out that clear nail polish would cause a HUGE amount of
glare/reflection off one's license plate, enough to keep one's license
plate from being photographed... and what was the result?

It's now nearly impossible to buy clear nail polish in W. Germany.  (Or
at least it was while he was there.)  He told me, too, that a favorite
night's hanging out for him and his friends was to get up on the roof
of a high building and sit with a few beers at nightfall, and wait for
the flashes to start going off at the streetcorners...

Hmm... wonder if clear polish would do me any good if I were going to
be night-speeding? (1/8 8-) )

-- 
Name: Gregory T. Samson
AKA:  The Evil MicroWizard [and once An Insane Man]
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