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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (Kim Nguyen)
Newsgroups: ont.general,rec.autos
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Keywords: speed limits
Message-ID: <9603@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 9 May 89 18:02:32 GMT
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In article <294@moegate.UUCP> soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:
>First off I've directed follow-ups to rec.autos in the vain hope that this
>"discussion" will go there and stay there. 
>
> [technical stuff deleted]
>
>Ownership and operation of a radar detector is illegal, if you want to break
>the law in this fashion that's between you and the officer who WILL catch you.
>However it's extremely rude to say the least for you think that it's appropriate
>for you to expose system owners and administrators to the potential dangers
>you just have by using their systems to discuss an illegal activity, there are
>laws which prohibit use of communications systems (i.e. the phone lines) for
>illegal activities
> [some ranting deleted]
>You could have, 
>through careful wording, asked the same question and gotten the same answers
>without making it obvious that you were intending to commit a crime. You've 
>now made every ont.general reader guilty of conspiracy, and I think we deserve
>an apology!.

If you will re-read my original posting carefully (this time), you
will notice that NOWHERE did I express an intention to commit any
crime whatsoever.  Discussing "criminal" activities is not a crime in
itself, I'm sure you will agree.

I believe I wrote, "I *have* considered using a radar detector..."
(emphasis on past tense).  This is indeed the case, and I never stated
anywhere that I intended to actually use one.  And in any case, I have
used one, back when it was still legal in Quebec.  I am fully within
the bounds of the law.

Too bad you were unable to discern my careful wording.  

I think *I* deserve an apology from *YOU*.

BTW: you were wrong about radar detectors only going off in you were
already being clocked.  They tell you when people AHEAD of you are
being clocked.  Read Car and Driver *carefully*.
--
Kim Nguyen 					kim@watsup.waterloo.edu
Systems Design Engineering  --  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada