Attn PA listers.....

[james accordino]

--- Richard Beels <beels at technologist.com> wrote:
> On my way to a client today, I saw someone pulled
> over on the turnpike and 
> the trooper's car had new lights on top.  Rather
> than the prominent, 
> sticking way out on top and easily seen in your
> mirrors "bubble-gum" 
> style,  they are a very slim, pod-like set of
> lights: one for the front and 
> one for the rear (imagine a rally car's light pod
> slimmed down with 3" high 
> bulbs), attached at the roof-glass interface.
> 
> At the client's, there was, coincidentally, a
> trooper there doing something 
> and I asked him about the new lights.  He said 
> "Yeah, they're cool, aren't 
> they?", smirked that "Now, you won't even be able to
> see the marked cars 
> coming." and that they're retrofitting all the
> marked cars with the new 
> lights...
> 
I commute through the Water Gap on I-80 and for some
months they've been using totally unmarked Malibu's or
some Chevy junk.  Just strobe lights behind the grill.
 Green, brown whatever.  This is now one of those
"targeted enforcement zones".  PA State Troopers are
still the best.  Don't know of any others that will
pass you going the other way when you're both doing
100 and wave.

Jim Accordino