Re: Speeding Alert, Denver and the rest of us.....

[Tom Van Ness <tom@reece.com>]

I was driving my girlfriend's car in Portland, OR and got caught on film by
one of these vans. Luckily, if someone else is driving YOUR car, you don't
have to pay the fine. So, you can either lie and say it wasn't you driving
(then they can check the photo and your ID) or you can just wear a
halloween mask all the time.



At 2:07 PM -0700 11/3/98, Paul_Royal@idx.com wrote:
>To:   audi-20v
>T-mutha-f'g-riffic:
>
>Mobile Radar
>
>     Drivers who routinely speed 10 or more mph over the
>     speed limit in Denver with impunity better think twice. Denver began
>employing mobile radar vans
>     yesterday that take
>     pictures of speeders. Hundreds were caught on the first day. The
>biggest problem the radar trappers had
>     was finding a place to park. There were plenty of customers when they
>they did. Three vans, loaded with
>     cameras and radar equipment, fanned out across the city in what was
>the first full day for Denver's photo
>     radar speed-enforcement program. The vans recorded violations for 16
>hours in several parts of the city. In
>     the first eight hours alone, 340 motorists were caught.