Top This One For A Speeding Ticket
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Top This One For A Speeding Ticket
I very good friend of mine sent me this e-mail in hopes to brighten my day. Eight more months 
and I'll be back in the good ole USA cruising the highway again.
I'm Korea for a 12 month tour.
I'm sure you guys will get a kick out of this.... I sure did!!
Two Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of Oceanside , San Diego , California ....
One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill. The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour and climbing.
The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then it suddenly turned off.
Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near this, it's home base location.
Back at the California Highway Patrol Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the US Marine Corps. Base Commander for shutting down his equipment.
The reply came back in true USMC style:
'Thank you for your letter.
You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down..
Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment location.
Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position.
The pilot suggests you cover your mouths when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high tech.
Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.'
Semper Fi
and I'll be back in the good ole USA cruising the highway again. I'm Korea for a 12 month tour.I'm sure you guys will get a kick out of this.... I sure did!!
Two Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of Oceanside , San Diego , California ....
One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill. The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour and climbing.
The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then it suddenly turned off.
Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near this, it's home base location.
Back at the California Highway Patrol Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the US Marine Corps. Base Commander for shutting down his equipment.
The reply came back in true USMC style:
'Thank you for your letter.
You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down..
Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment location.
Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position.
The pilot suggests you cover your mouths when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high tech.
Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.'
Semper Fi
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...it's also absolutely false.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
still a neat story however.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
still a neat story however.
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...it's also absolutely false.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
still a neat story however.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
still a neat story however.
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...it's also absolutely false.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
still a neat story however.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
still a neat story however.
I have seen this story before. Police radar directed at vehicular traffic on a roadway simply won't focus on a jet flying overhead, no matter how low it's flying.
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...it's also absolutely false.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
still a neat story however.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
still a neat story however.
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