RE: Radar - was: Another speeding ticket question

["Paul Wilson" <pauldwilson@ne.mediaone.net>]

As has been said before:

In Heaven the engineers are German, the cooks French and the police English.
In Hell the police are German, the engineers French and the cooks English.
There was something about the Italians in there too I think.

Paul Wilson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@audifans.com [mailto:owner-quattro@audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Robert B.
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 4:11 AM
> To: Quattro List
> Subject: Re: Radar - was: Another speeding ticket question
>
>
> Aleksander wrote:
>
> > In Poland they tailgate you for several minutes to make you speed up
> > effectively increasing the revenue.
> >
>
> It seems that other European nations are copying the Germans. Ours not
> only tailgate you, they drive Golf GTIs and try to start races with you
> and THEN give you a ticket. All legal, of course. Not all Autobahns have
> no speed limits BTW. More and more of them are getting speed limits for
> one reason or another.
>
> Oh, they also wait until you are in a construction zone, tailgate you
> and then say you were driving too fast, which doubles the fine, the
> points and means a one month licence suspension.
>
> Then we have stationary big brother cameras, plain cars with videos and
> also marked cars with videos, all of which take your picture in some
> way...
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Rob
> Germany
>
>