Re: Death of US Autobahn Greatly Exaggerated

[kappa@travelin.com]

On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Paul_Royal@isserv9.idx.com wrote:

>  Dear Speed Freaks,
>   <SNIP>
>        Wherever there are wide stretches of beautiful Western road there
>  is an Autobahn to be had.  Fact of the matter is; if you can't see well
>  enough to determine if John Law is about, you probably shouldn't be
>  burying 100 anyway. 
>   <SNIP>
>                 Royal

Similar point.  On the return trip from Santa Fe, in the U-Haul, noticed Johnny Law and his pals setting a speed trap.  Two officers drove 
west past us, side by side doing the speed limit.  Then about five miles up the road, you come across three more cruisers in the median turn 
around.  Pointing west and waiting.  One officer had his binoculars focused down the long straight strecth of Nebraska highway, waiting...  I'm 
sure that if I had been running radar (what's the point?  Truck governed to 69mph and the limit was 75mph...) it would have gone off as they 
tagged the gut in front of me.

As Paul says, if you can't see well enough... but we can't drive with our passenger glued to spotting scopes can we?  Advantage - Johhny Law.

-STott Hare      
'84 4Ksq  (black _& blue_, have turbo, waiting to install...)
Biddeford, Maine

harest@allenbrook.iix.com
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