On (13 Jun 95) Rod Speed wrote to Keith Richardson...



 RS> (Continued from previous message)



 KR> in general, unless you can find a loophole, your only chance

 KR> is to prove that the cop is an incompetent dickhead who used

 KR> the machine outside the approved procedures, but then he is

 KR> kindly mr plod who is only trying to save you from killing

 KR> yourself so you are probably going to end up paying in the end.



 RS> Yeah, and they usually go to some care to use

 RS> them where they are sure to book heaps too.



reputedly, the top spot in nsw is ourimbah, on the central coast where

the f3 ends, and you go from 110k to 80k to 60k limits. seciond to that

is the 100km around the pt mcquarie turn off on the pacific highway in

summer, and gouldburn/cooma in winter.



 KR> ps. i think that the act cops are using laser speed traps,

 KR> it looked very much like one i saw there the other week.



 RS> Wouldnt surprise me, they have been talking about it for long enough.



looked a but different to the yank ones, more like an old twin lens

reflex camera on a tripod, whereas the yanks seem to use what looks like

a big pistol. i suppose that the advantage of the hand held unit is that

they can get you coming or going, important in a land where front number

plates are largely optional.



                        Keith



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