RE: v1 saves the day

["Perry, Chris" <perryc@wdni.com>]

I'll second that.  Same thing happened to me on a trip from Seattle to
Portland.  One car 50 to 70 feet in front of me, saw a cop in the median, I
slow down, laser alert goes off (as he hits the car in front), car in front
slows down, laser alert goes off again (as he hits me), cop pulls out with
lights-a-blazin' and proceeds to pull the car in front of me over. 

I do however, have no doubt that if I had been in front and not seen the cop
before the laser alert went off, I would have been toast.

chris
89 90q

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dan Simoes [SMTP:dans@audifans.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 28, 1999 5:28 AM
> To:	brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net
> Cc:	HAREST@allenbrook.iix.com; Robert.Houk@east.sun.com;
> dans@audifans.com; quattro@audifans.com
> Subject:	Re: v1 saves the day
> 
> > The "laser" part is silly...the whole idea of a laser is that it 
> > doesn't spread much, and they're almost always instantaneous.  Don't 
> > know the beam spread angle on laser guns, but it probably isn't more 
> > than a foot or two wide at a very large distance.  By the time the 
> > laser alarm goes off, you've been had...
> 
> You can believe what you like, but I've been warned at least twice 
> by someone shooting at cars as much as 50 feet ahead of me.
> 
> | Dan |