[DeTomaso] Detomaso radar detector survey

[adin at frontier.net]

I have a Valentine because I don't pay attention.  Its not that I  
intentionally speed ANYWHERE I can be seen, because I don't.  If you  
are driving and anyone can see you - then I believe there is a VERY  
good chance someone will cause me harm.  ("I didn't see you.")

Two things at the top of my "don't do this today list" are the following:

Don't let someone else wreck my car.
Don't hurt anyone while exercising my rights.

Further, I maintain the radar detector is a safety item.  Witness:  
everyday coming to work I drive into the rising sun;  The sun is right  
at the horizon;  when the pack of cars crests the hill/makes the turn  
into the sun, two things are likely to happen:  a stopped school bus  
or a parked "traffic nazi".  And what happens???   
"there'sacopi'dbetterputonmybrakes" and the chain reaction starts.   
When I know there is a traffic nazi sitting there I just back off the  
throttle and check my mirrors - if need be I pop on my hazards so the  
following 4xdually welder-cowboy-oil trash behind me doesn't mess my  
pony tail.  But at least I'm not in the middle of the blind pack (all  
braking hard).

Yesterday I came down Hesperus Hill (famous uphill "dyno" run) and got  
a beep on the Valentine - I slowed rounding a blind corner to find: 1  
CHP, 1 fire truck, 2 EMT trucks and a bike rally sag wagon STOPPED in  
my lane.

Radar detectors, fire-arms, axes, hormonally challenged females and  
howiters - used properly are great fun.  Used without caution ?  VERY  
dangerous.

Oh, crap another rant.

David in Durango, off to get a rebel flag tattooed on one cheek and  
the jolly rodger on the other





Quoting Pastafazo at aol.com:

> Getting back to radar detectors, I don't care how good your radar detector
> is, you're going to get a ticket, if the officer sees you have a radar
> detector.  It doesn't matter how fast you are going or slow you are   
> going  you're
> going to get a ticket.  This has happened to me.  My radar went  off  
>  well in time
> and I slow down, and at best I was going 72 mph and a 65 miles  zone.  He
> wrote me of for 94 miles an hour.  I asked to see his  readout, and   
> he said he
> would not.  He was lying, and the judge believed  him.  The judge   
> asked me, why
> do you have a radar detector?  It's  because you speed don't you.  I fought
> this case in a San Bernardino  court for over three months, it cost   
> me $1500 in
> court fees plus the cost of the  ticket.
>
>
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