speeding detected by civilians

hate to start another endless thread on speeding limits, but
this is an interesting privacy anecdote... hope this hasn't
been posted here.


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From: "Steven M. Horvath" <horvath@comm.mot.com>
Subject: Speeder's Beware of Vernon Hills, IL.
To: snet-l <snet-l@world.std.com>

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Vernon Hills, IL.

Vernon Hills, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has passed legislation allowing 
citizens to check out radar guns from the local police department to 
catch speeders in their community. The radar guns are combined with 
cameras in order to instantaneously capture the car, license number, and the 
rate of speed. The citizens can check out the units for a week at a time. The 
police have stated that they, at this time, will use the data to issue 
warning letters to the violaters.






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- From the node of Vladimir Z. Nuri:
: 
: Vernon Hills, IL.
: 
: Vernon Hills, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has passed legislation allowing 
: citizens to check out radar guns from the local police department to 
: catch speeders in their community. The radar guns are combined with 
: cameras in order to instantaneously capture the car, license number, and the 
: rate of speed. The citizens can check out the units for a week at a time. The 
: police have stated that they, at this time, will use the data to issue 
: warning letters to the violaters.
: 

Got a neighbor you don't like?  Rent one of these here radar guns and
get a set of tuning forks.  Set up the unit to catch your target, and then
just hold a tuning fork up in front of the unit (but out of range of the 
mounted camera).

PS -- Didn't traffic cops have one of the highest rates of testicular
cancer by occupation due to the widespread habit of resting radar guns in
their laps without switching them off?

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:

> Vernon Hills, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has passed legislation allowing 
> citizens to check out radar guns from the local police department to 
> catch speeders in their community. The radar guns are combined with 
> cameras in order to instantaneously capture the car, license number, and the 
> rate of speed. The citizens can check out the units for a week at a time. The 
> police have stated that they, at this time, will use the data to issue 
> warning letters to the violaters.

Great!  I'll take a hundred, please.


 S a n d y

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In article <3u4g3t$pn8@nntp.crl.com> Buzz@static.noise.net (Buzz White) writes:

   >> Vernon Hills, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has passed legislation allowing 
   >> citizens to check out radar guns from the local police department to 
   >> catch speeders in their community. The radar guns are combined with 
   >> cameras in order to instantaneously capture the car, license number, and the 
   >> rate of speed. The citizens can check out the units for a week at a time. The 
   >> police have stated that they, at this time, will use the data to issue 
   >> warning letters to the violaters.

   Can they use them to bust COPS that speed?   Heh heh.

If Vernon Hills has any citizens left with spines, you can bet that
the local police are going to start to get a couple hundred pictures
of cop cars per week... Hell, I'll bet that I could take that many
by *myself* :)

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> 
> In article <3u4g3t$pn8@nntp.crl.com> Buzz@static.noise.net (Buzz White) writes:
> 
>    >> Vernon Hills, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, has passed legislation allowing 
>    >> citizens to check out radar guns from the local police department to 
>    >> catch speeders in their community. The radar guns are combined with 
>    >> cameras in order to instantaneously capture the car, license number, and the 
>    >> rate of speed. The citizens can check out the units for a week at a time. The 
>    >> police have stated that they, at this time, will use the data to issue 
>    >> warning letters to the violaters.
> 
>    Can they use them to bust COPS that speed?   Heh heh.
> 
> If Vernon Hills has any citizens left with spines, you can bet that
> the local police are going to start to get a couple hundred pictures
> of cop cars per week... Hell, I'll bet that I could take that many
> by *myself* :)

I'm absolutely dying to do that with cops around here (N.VA/Tysons) area...

I got a ticket at 2:30 AM while my car was on cruise at 55MPH, almost
no hills, guy said he 'paced' me for about a mile doing 70 2-3 miles
before he stopped me, yet he was too lazy to use his radar...
I paid $40 and spent a few hours getting an officially certified
speedometer test, etc.

Still trying to go to court: first date was for July 3rd, which they
decided at the last minute to take as vacation, told me to appear
July 5th, when I found out that the continuance was for Aug 9.  (For
a June 5th or so ticket.

After 50 calls to the court house trying to get through, I found out
that the officers don't even have to turn in paperwork unless I don't
pay the bond and then they just turn it in 4-5 days before the court
date.

The parking meter at the courthouse was fraudulent (20 min for my $.25 for
30 min fee), and I've noted numerous speeding and illegal Uturns, parking
in active roadway's without lights, etc. offences by local police...

sdw

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