| Author | Message | ||
     Steveford |
Contact your Senator and Representative as they're trying to give all of the local cops radar guns and make our lives a living hell. http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/04 /lawmakers_call_for_arming_loca.html Thanks! | ||
| Two_seasons |
Used to live in PA. Never got one ticket. People in PA seem to police themselves pretty well. Here in WI, it's all about the revenue. EVERYTHING is an offense. Damn stupid to have a divided 4 lane hwy, limited access, with a 45mph limit. | ||
| Ratbuell |
No sympathy from me - MD locals have had radar forever. Welcome to the club. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Sorry, I don't see the problem here... I had no idea there were cops anywhere without radar. Hell, they all have laser here in Georgia. | ||
| Etennuly |
If you google New Market,Tn you will find the most prevalent speed trap in the Nation. Or if you can't spell 'New Market' just type in 'Speed Trap' (17 years here and still knocking on wood). I grew up in the Allegheny mountains. During the year of my 21st birthday I got 4 speeding tickets in one month from the PA State Troopers. I collected a couple others in NY and in a local town that year also. At that time I really thought they had it in for me. The way things are now I would have been put in jail for terrorist activities having that many tickets. In the '70s when ya had 400 horse power and loud side pipes, going too fast was a given. I found out years later that one guy in particular did not like me passing his house nearly every night, after midnight, at 100 to 135 mph. I just got used to driving those narrow secondary roads like that. I lived in Fla when the National speed limit was 55 mph. Driving home to Pa from Fla on the Interstates you could get away with 62 mph nearly everywhere. When you got to the Pa Southern border you better have it back to 55. As one Border Guard, I mean Trooper politely put it "not 56!". | ||
| Badlionsfan |
According the the article PA is the only state that doesn't allow local police to use radar. Personally I think that's goofy. Speeding is much more dangerous to others in towns and neighborhoods than it is on the interstate. Don't think you're gonna get any sympathy outside the commonwealth... | ||
| Big_island_rider |
Instead of speed traps they need to have cell phone traps. Killed or injured more bikers than speed. | ||
| Froggy |
Cops don't need radar to stop you. It literally happened in the group ride I was in today (upstate NY), we were doing 35ish in a 35 zone, a cop going in the opposite direction literally stopped in the middle of the road, did a u-turn, and pulled one of us over for going "way too fast". Apparently with Doppler shift the Ninja in the middle rear of the pack was going faster than everything else. |
