This isn't specific to C-4's but with summer driving season here we can all use a reminder to avoid meeting the man (or woman) with the badge. What are some of the creative (OK, sneaky) things you've seen cops do to catch speeders or other infractions? I'll start with two.

Last week a friend saw about 4 or 5 cop cars lined up at the end of his street, where it comes into a main drag. It was a nice day so he took a walk. About 2 blocks down there was an old junker parked by another side street, and in front of it was a "surveyor" - complete with orange vest, white hard hat and a tripod. But the thing on the tripod was NOT a transit! There was another guy (cop) in the junker and the "surveyor" was calling out speeds to him and he would no doubt radio the "stoppers". Since cell phone use while driving is banned here they were probably after that, too.

The other was a couple years ago and was in a construction zone. Things were single lane in my direction and down to a crawl. I saw a guy in a sport shirt leaning against a telephone pole as traffic went slowly by. I saw him turn away and it looked like he said something into his hand. As I went by I saw he had a walkie-talkie but was keeping it by his side, hidden. Sure enough - about a quarter mile down the road were a couple marked cars and they pointed and pulled over the car about 2 or 3 ahead of me. Probably no seat belt or using a cell phone, and nobody suspected the casually-dressed guy leaning against the pole!

 

I got pulled over in northern KY by cops using a method similar to the second one you mentioned. It was a total speed trap, limit was 70 and immediately dropped to 55, cop was right there on the side of the road calling out speeds to one ahead. I saw him and looked down at my speedo saw 71 mph and was like he wont get me in traffic. That was an expensive ticket that I dont feel that I deserved. I didnt realize that the speed limit dropped to 55 until he wrote the ticket. He tried to accuse me of street racing, all this in rush hour traffic.

 

If their handing out summonses for only going a little bit over the limit, its one thing. But those morons that drive WELL over the residential speed limit of 25 really deserve it.

 

i got that once when i was driving the cadillac. (this things a boat - its just short of 19 feet long) 1993 fleetwood.

Where i live, highway 10 is a 65 mph highway.Of course i was doing 70 to make time When going into stevens point, about halfway from my house, the speed drops from 65 to 55 and its downhill. I turned the cruise off on the cadillac to try to coast my way down to 55 miles an hour. Being as big as it is, it took forever for it to slow down and the cop said "WHY ARE YOU DOING 67 IN A 55 ARE YOU RACING SOMEONE"

I've never been pulled over in the vette yet though. They probably don't expect someone so young to be driving one so they don't feel they have to "teach me a lesson"

yeah im gonna race someone in a giant car when i could roast em in the vette..idiot lol

 

That speed drop on highways is really ridiculous. Here I am cruising at a certain speed for x amount of miles when all of a sudden theres a speed drop out of no where on the same stretch of highway. ANd wouldnt you know it, loads of troopers strategically parked on the side of the road

 

I gotta add one more. One hot summer day I was westbound on the New York State Thruway between Batavia and Buffalo. There is a stretch where the eastbound and westbound lanes are separated a bit, with thick woods between. It's a common place for cops so I was close to the limit even with no cops in sight.

Something to my left caught my eye and I about drove off the road. By the edge of the woods there's a State Trooper sitting back in a lawn chair, relaxed, one ankle on his other knee - except instead of a beer, he had a radar gun in one hand and a radio in the other! I caught a glimpse of his car farther back on a dirt path - either the radar is cordless or he had a long cable. And sure enough, about a half mile farther on there were a couple "stoppers" in another woods path waiting for the call.

Since he didn't nail me, I thought it was hysterical - if you could have seen the guy - all he needed was a dog sleeping at his feet.

 

Another fast one I saw in Houston a year ago. They had a City Public Service truck with a lift bucket on it. They were up in the bucket next to a pole so you'd think they were working on phone or power lines. Well they had a cop with a radar gun up there that was relaying info down the road to a chase car parked behind another truck where you couldn't see it.

 

I got pulled over a couple of weeks ago for doing 82 in a 65 in the Vette. I got a warning believe it or not.

 

 

Let's me see you out run this; ****

Jim

 

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C.H.P. in Georgia ????

 

In FL they love to park an unmarked unit at the bottom of an overpass. On the other side of the next overpass will be a slew of marked units. The newest vehicles for FL state police are ford pickups, regular cabs with a tool box in the back...the top of the tool box pops up and has a light bar in it. Pretty sneaky except there are about thirty other lights on the truck as well. Two under the rear bumber, about four in the rear window (Darkly tinted mind you) and about 20 in the front grill. This thing is a rolling light show when you see it all lit up on the side of the road.

 

So what if enforcement law is sneaky at times. You have the option of buying a lidar/radar detector to help warn you or you could just slow down and drive the limit. Everyone complains about the police until you need one, and then it’s "What took you so long to get here".

Recently in the news you have heard about at least six officers being shot and killed with a couple of more being injured while doing their jobs which is protecting people like you. Next time you are stopped for speeding think about that and remember slowing you down is done in the interest of public safety

 

Another typical story about America's finest.

 

I will agree with you an everything, excecpt (in part) about the speeding being in the interest of public safety.

I travel a good deal and drive on a lot of roads in a lot of dif areas. One thing I frequently see, especially on freeways, is drop in speed for few miles. There appears to be no perceptable safety reason for this. (I am certain that in some cases there is, I am just not aware of it.) That stretch of road is looks exactly the same as the stretch before and after.

I appreciate speed limits where it is needed, but blatent speed traps are there to catch the person who, for whatever reason, did not see the drop in speed.

Sorry, that is nothing more than a revenue generator.

 

The problem I have with traffic enforcement getting as sneaky as these and there are many other stories like these is that this doen't prevent speeding, it just catches some of them. In my mind it would be much better if law enforcement would remain visible which would thereby serve to PREVENT speeding. If the police were interested in preventing speeding and the resulting hazzard to motorists, it would seem they would be better off posting marked cars in plain sight every few miles through their jurisdiction. Where I live nothing slows traffic down like a patrol car on the shoulder of the road.

 

When I lived in Lake Havasu Arizona they used to park two empty police cars on the side of the highway coming into town from both the north and south ends. Sure slowed the traffic down, didn't need to ticket anyone, just got the speeders to slow down.

I agree that the trickery is not really fair, but the public complains about speeding and other traffic law breakers - so they are really just doing their jobs. I am glad we have police out there trying to protect us all. I wouldn't want there job or the problems that go with it.

If I get a speeding ticket, I will deserve it - it is the price I will pay to sometimes putting the "boots" to it. It won't be because I was tricked. JMHO

 

Many years ago while riding with my friend Sandy on Rt. 128 in Massachusetts, we got pulled over by a state trooper on a section where the speed limit dropped from 55 to 35. Sandy is as crazy as they get so when the trooper came up to the window, she asked if we were stopped to buy tickets to the policeman's ball. The trooper responded , " Madame, the state police do not have *****." We both cracked up laughing and the trooper just walked back to his car and left. I love Sandy.

 

 

well, they need revenue and quota.and ANYONE(cops here) (silly citizen) who says different is lying or ignorant. My family has had about 6 cops, and friends also, and they would not lie about it. My brother quit being a milwaukee cop because it was so gross, he works in a factory now, that should say something.