flying junior
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I was tooling across the landscape with the wind roaring in my ears the other day when a most offensive siren noise shattered the peace. The highway patrol officer informed me that I'd been clocked at 80 MPH by another cop in an airplane. I was going to get a ticket.
(Thank goodness they didn't nail me on that straightaway a few miles before!)
It had been a glorious day of carving curves and joyful motorcycling up to that point. But no more. As I drove away with the ticket in my wallet and gloom in my heart, I tried to think of a way to avoid such mega-bummers. A radar detector gives some defense against radar, and wide-awake motorcycling in general helps defend against getting clocked.
But the bear in the air is deadly. It would only be a fluke ever to see one of those planes in action.
Someone could make a bunch of money selling a radio scanner that would pick up on the radio traffic between the cop in the air and the one on the ground. That's the only way I could figure to deal with that sort of speed-cop activity.
Anyone have any words of wisdom on this subject? Do cops routinely make public the times and areas where it intends to fly the enforcement planes? Or does a blue sky, fluffy coulds and calm winds just mean you have to worry?
(Thank goodness they didn't nail me on that straightaway a few miles before!)
It had been a glorious day of carving curves and joyful motorcycling up to that point. But no more. As I drove away with the ticket in my wallet and gloom in my heart, I tried to think of a way to avoid such mega-bummers. A radar detector gives some defense against radar, and wide-awake motorcycling in general helps defend against getting clocked.
But the bear in the air is deadly. It would only be a fluke ever to see one of those planes in action.
Someone could make a bunch of money selling a radio scanner that would pick up on the radio traffic between the cop in the air and the one on the ground. That's the only way I could figure to deal with that sort of speed-cop activity.
Anyone have any words of wisdom on this subject? Do cops routinely make public the times and areas where it intends to fly the enforcement planes? Or does a blue sky, fluffy coulds and calm winds just mean you have to worry?
