Path: utzoo!dciem!client1!schuck
From: schuck@client1.DRETOR.UUCP (Mary Margaret Schuck)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Keywords: speed limits
Message-ID: <1714@client1.DRETOR.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 12:34:45 GMT
References: <852@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> <9556@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <907@mks.UUCP> <3215@looking.UUCP> <489@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Reply-To: schuck@client1.dciem.dnd.ca (Mary Margaret Schuck)
Distribution: ont
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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In article <489@bnr-fos.UUCP> dgibbs@bnr-fos.UUCP (David Gibbs) writes:
>In article <3215@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
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>>Seems to me it would make sense to put a sensor up under the hood, not on
>>the dash.  They look around your passenger compartment, but I have never
>>had a cop check under the hood.
>The problem with putting the radar detector under the hood, is that 
>the radar detector is then sitting surrounded by metal, which radio
>waves tend to bounce off.  
>  Also, it is kind of hard to hear the warning if the detector is
>under the hood of the car, unless the warning is awful loud

I have a friend who owns a detector which is mounted under his hood.  
It is mounted as close to the dash as possible and has a remote beeper
which is mounted in his heating vents.  I.e. the thing goes off and lights
show up in his vents along with a beeping or whatever.  

He was stopped once by a cop who saw his brake lights go on
and either did not get the "tell me where or I'll tear your car 
apart" or he successfully defied it (I'm not sure which.)  I do know
that even with the cops knowing that he had a detector they could not
prove it or do anything about it.

Is it quite legal for the police to make that kind of threat?  Do they
have that authority?  It sounds like entrapment to me too...


	Mary Margaret Schuck.