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Speed trap warnings. Posted by Andy [Email]  (#759) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Andy) on Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:29:07
In Reply to: Re: FLASH BRITES TO ON COMING SAABS??, Scott Paterson   [Profile/Gallery]
, Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:48:48
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When I lived in New Hampshire years ago the town cop in Marlborough used to sit up an angled side street and wait for speeding cars coming westbound down the long hill into town on Rt. 111. Late one night a buddy of mine was going uphill and saw the cop as he passed, he flashed his lights to warn a guy coming down the hill and the cop came after him and gave him a citation for safety equipment violations. There were five towns between Marlborough and Nashua where he lived and every one of those five towns stopped him and gave him inspection citations.
The Massachusetts State Police used to set up a radar trap every Saturday morning east-bound on the Turnpike at about milepost 116. I traveled that road often enough that I saw them there on a regular basis. They would put a cruiser in the median just over the crest of a long hill and there would be about 6 cruisers in a wide turnout at the bottom. If someone was speeding, the cruiser in the median would radio to the ones at the bottom of the hill and a trooper would come out onto the edge of the roadway, point at the offending car and wave them over. They usually did a landoffice business with people rushing into Boston for the day. One time my {ex-)wife and I were driving through there and we backed off at the appropriate place as we knew that we were approaching the speed trap. A big truck was bearing down on us and I stuck my hand up through the sun roof, waved my finger in a circular motion, like a rotating light, and pointed ahead of us. The truck caught the drift of what I was telling him, tucked in behind us, and let others go speeding by. After we passed the cops at the bottom of the hill and speeded up again, the trucker thanked me as he sped off down the road.
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