Re: blue headlights?

[Coolian <coolian@tiac.net>]

>>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.
>
>Huh.. Well, that doesn't really bother me as a driver, as I really hate the
>blue lights. As a 'free' citizen, that does bother me.
>
>I hope there is some training (ha yah right) for officers to distinguish
>between HID 'blue' lights, and the cheap-o imitation BLUE floodlights. god
>those are sick. 
>
>They are HID, yah? I don't remember the physics involved.. Something
>expensive to replace is all I recall. I suppose, that if you've got the
>money for a Carerra 4, that an expensive headlight isn't really a concern,
>however.
>
>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. 

Of course it's lame...But When you're getting 70 bucks an hour to do a
detail then you get to thinking.....=]

 
Brendan Barry
Boston, Massachusetts
Owner of a Glaringly red, 
1987 Audi 4000 CS quattro
Works like a charm, on Sundays.