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16-11-2001, 11:39pm
A mate of mine (who shall remain nameless) was booked in his car in a country town coming back from Adelaide one night. The officer's actual words to him were:
"Gee, you were unlucky pal, we were on our way to pick up a pizza and thought we'd activate the mobile radar on the way." How unlucky can you be.
Now, whilst I don't speed all the time on my Busa, I'm no saint all the time either. In a country area like where I am, my greatest fear (apart from falling off) is mobile radar. You can be on a real quiet country road where the plod would not ever bother to sit with a radar or a speed camera, but then you get an officer on his way back from a near by town or from visiting some farmer who has had a chain saw stolen from his shed, sees the light of an oncoming motorcycle, decides to flick on his mobile radar and before you even get close enough to see it's a police car you've been recorded at 131 per hour (kms or miles it doesn't matter, your license is history).
Questions for anyone who knows/cares to speculate/has no bloody idea at all but has a good yarn to tell about mobile radars:
1. What are their limitations.
2. Somebody told me that they can work backwards, ie., if you speed up behind a police car with a mobile radar you can get nicked that way too. Is that true?
Disclaimer: If the authorities are viewing this website, these questions are not intended to be a workshop on how to break the law and get away with it. No, not at all.
"Gee, you were unlucky pal, we were on our way to pick up a pizza and thought we'd activate the mobile radar on the way." How unlucky can you be.
Now, whilst I don't speed all the time on my Busa, I'm no saint all the time either. In a country area like where I am, my greatest fear (apart from falling off) is mobile radar. You can be on a real quiet country road where the plod would not ever bother to sit with a radar or a speed camera, but then you get an officer on his way back from a near by town or from visiting some farmer who has had a chain saw stolen from his shed, sees the light of an oncoming motorcycle, decides to flick on his mobile radar and before you even get close enough to see it's a police car you've been recorded at 131 per hour (kms or miles it doesn't matter, your license is history).
Questions for anyone who knows/cares to speculate/has no bloody idea at all but has a good yarn to tell about mobile radars:
1. What are their limitations.
2. Somebody told me that they can work backwards, ie., if you speed up behind a police car with a mobile radar you can get nicked that way too. Is that true?
Disclaimer: If the authorities are viewing this website, these questions are not intended to be a workshop on how to break the law and get away with it. No, not at all.