Blinder LaserJammer

[DannyS]

The local cops have an old police car and a woman mannequin
that they like to park on the side of the road to get people to slow down they call her Officer Dollie. The other day I saw Dollie and noticed she had company. A male officer was sitting in the passenger seat with a radar gun shooting out the window past Officer Dolly. Talk about sneaky.

 

[docdoru]

So, doc... which one did you get? The Cheeta looks pretty good!

 

[woodz428]

I believe in safe riding, but regard most speed limits as a revenue enhancer. I am talking open road and not residential area. I want to point out, for those that don't know... Police cannot set up speed traps on private property without prior written permission of the owner. According to the Supreme Court ruling, it violates the "unreasonable search and seizure" clause in the Constitution.
Before anyone suggest that the speed limit is the law and shouldn't be violated, remember that the Constitution IS the law and the police are required to OBEY it in the execution of their duties.
Just a little food for thought.

 

[docdoru]

ou have to plan for a lot of tickets to make this worth it.

Break-even as of yesterday...:yikes:

 

[Neez]

My buddy Chuck, a Canadian like myself, used to blast thru Washington state on his Harley and ignore the tickets he got once he was north of the line. He found out that he can't get away with that stuff any more as the cops are computerized these days. He had his rights to ride in WA suspended. I had to drive him down to the courthouse in Linden WA where he got a lecture from the judge, had to pay all his tickets and pay a stiff fine before he was re-instated. As we were leaving the courthouse, Chuck muttered that there were more kangaroos in that court than all of Australia. I had to struggle to keep a straight face and look sympathetic.

 

[bone crusher]

I believe in safe riding, but regard most speed limits as a revenue enhancer. I am talking open road and not residential area. I want to point out, for those that don't know... Police cannot set up speed traps on private property without prior written permission of the owner. According to the Supreme Court ruling, it violates the "unreasonable search and seizure" clause in the Constitution.
Before anyone suggest that the speed limit is the law and shouldn't be violated, remember that the Constitution IS the law and the police are required to OBEY it in the execution of their duties.
Just a little food for thought.

Plenty of public roads for them to catch people...

 

[woodz428]

Plenty of public roads for them to catch people...

That is indeed true. I am making reference to the officer that parks his car in a closed gas station and uses it for his base of operations to catch speeders...or any number of other "private" areas. We have a local sheriff that regularly parks in the cemetary and runs speed checks. I don't speed in that area, because it is pretty much residential, but that little tidbit of info pops into my head every time I see him. I think the Supreme court justices realized, in their ruling, that unless it was "prior consent" that a property owner could feel coerced into granting permission AFTER the fact.
If you look at statistics, far more deaths occur at low speed than high ones, that's why consider it a revenue enhancer.

 

[Sekhet]

My brother used to be a state trooper, and in the state where he used to work if you where caught with a radar / laser detector, you would be hit with a very large fine and the loss of the detector. If you where caught with a radar / laser jammer, you would be hit with an extremely large fine, a night or two in jail and loss of the vehicle you where using the jammer in!:gaah:

 

[j45p3r]

You've never scraped the nose of your Spyder before? I'd be a bit nervous with that front mounting location.

 

[woodz428]

My brother used to be a state trooper, and in the state where he used to work if you where caught with a radar / laser detector, you would be hit with a very large fine and the loss of the detector. If you where caught with a radar / laser jammer, you would be hit with an extremely large fine, a night or two in jail and loss of the vehicle you where using the jammer in!:gaah:

It is supposedly the same here. Although I have never been clocked on a bike( I have hit 150 on the Interstate late at night...2a.m.,Suzi GSXR 750), I think most sportbikes have such a small profile with very few flat surfaces they are not as easy to clock. Although jammers are illegal in many states( actually the FCC has laws against it too), I seriously doubt that most police would realize that it was being jammed and just think they were having problems with the gun. Minimum ticket here is $75...for anything, and they can hit you with a reckless driving charge if you are 15 miles over the limit.It wouldn't take many to pay for a jammer. I even know people that build them. I'd get one from them so there would be no record of a purchase.While at the same time the police didn't charge some young woman who killed a bicyclist while downloading ringtones. NO CHARGE,why?? Because their wasn't a law that said you couldn't download ringtones while driving. To me that is the definition of reckless driving, she should have had her license pulled forever. Interestingly enough the local community passed an ordinance that makes using a cell phone while driving a crime...DUH! It must only be enforced if you are in an accident because when I go into town everyone seems to have interpreted it as "required" to use a cell phone while driving, and the police are worried about speeders? I think it is absurd that the politicians think the police can "know" everything. They are just human beings put in a job that has become more of a babysitting job than "protecting" the public from the bad guys. They are expected to protect us from ourselves...and fill the spendthrifts( read;legislators) coffers at the same time.
I'd take my chance with a jammer if I think it's neccessary.Since the Spyder IS a bit larger than even my 'wing Sportbike, I may have to.
Really that's the nice thing about technology, it's easy to negate. Last week it was revealed that for $26 the radical factions in Afganistan/Pakistan had been able to tap into our remote control drones and are able to view where they are flying and the targets that may be hit. All for $26. It took the U.S. BILLIONS to develop it and they predict another wad to eliminate that issue. They don't even know whether they can take control of them either. Dedication will override technology every time. $26 to override a BILLION dollar defense system. I think we have the wrong people working on it. But that could have only been $30 and the billions was because it went through the govt. WASTE-R-US program.

 

[txknight67]

Why don't you all save your money and just go the speed limit :roflblack:

:hun:!

 

[txknight67]

My brother used to be a state trooper, and in the state where he used to work if you where caught with a radar / laser detector, you would be hit with a very large fine and the loss of the detector. If you where caught with a radar / laser jammer, you would be hit with an extremely large fine, a night or two in jail and loss of the vehicle you where using the jammer in!:gaah:

Thankfully TX has only instituted laws like this for big rigs.

Car&Driver (and NHTSA for that matter) has done multiple studies and found that there is no rhyme nor reason to setting speed limits. They have found that with no posted speed limit, the vast majority of drivers will travel at a safe speed for that road. Both have also found roads where the speed limit changes simply because the road enters another jurisdiction. Nothing else changed; the population density, business district, etc....nothing changed except the road entering another law enforcement district. And guess what, most of the time there is a police car just past the speed limit sign. There is a perfect example of that in San Antonio on the NW side. I can't remember the road now, been too long, maybe you San Antonio people can help me out?

That is why I know speed limits have nothing to do with safety and everything to do with revenue generation.

Another little tidbit while I am ranting about revenue generation with traffic laws, when a camera is installed at an intersection, the duration of the yellow light is always shortened. Again, Car&Driver as well as many other car magazines have timed a yellow light at an intersection before a camera was installed and then after and the duration was always shortened, sometimes up to a full second or two. Which while it doesn't sound like much, makes a huge difference when caught in that "Do I stop or do I go through?" In fact, using NHTSA data, it is proven that accidents actually increase at camera monitored stop lights. Sound like safety to you?

 

[docdoru]

Another little tidbit while I am ranting about revenue generation with traffic laws, when a camera is installed at an intersection, the duration of the yellow light is always shortened. Again, Car&Driver as well as many other car magazines have timed a yellow light at an intersection before a camera was installed and then after and the duration was always shortened, sometimes up to a full second or two. Which while it doesn't sound like much, makes a huge difference when caught in that "Do I stop or do I go through?" In fact, using NHTSA data, it is proven that accidents actually increase at camera monitored stop lights. Sound like safety to you?

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