Re: blue headlights?

["Kevin Bent" <kbent@western.wave.ca>]

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>From: Brooks Ellis <brooks@frii.com>

>>My aunt's a MA State Trooper and she tells me that these blue add-on
lights
>>are ILLEGAL and you can be jailed and charged 5k for impersonating an
>officer.

>PS - impersonating an officer? give me a break. I don't believe I've ever
>seen a cop car drive around with two blue lights nearly scraping the
>ground, and that feature alone. Usially, they've got the red and a blue,
>alternating flashes, with the headlights on, and the high beams flashing.
>Even the 'undercover' cars with the lights in the grille, without the
>'speed brake' on top. 

I really used to enjoy driving down through the US from Canada a few years
ago.  Here in the Great White North we have had daytime running lights
mandated by law for many years.  We would be cruising down the Interstate at
a reasonable clip and I would be so impressed that everyone seemed to
immediately pull into the slow lane as we approached from the rear.  Turns
out they thought we were we a ghost car just because we had headlights on
during the day.  I doubt this works anymore as now you folks south of the
border are also getting DRLs.


Kevin Bent
83 Ur-Q
"the way I drive I don't worry about my cholesterol"