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Accumulator · 08-13-07, 11:08

velobard- My conversations with LEOs make me reluctant to try the various countermeasures available. For every cop who'll just shrug and clock somebody else, there seem to be a lot more of them who would decide the driver they couldn't clock is the most interesting person they're gonna see on that shift. They can always use their "visual" to pull somebody over, and then things are pretty much in their hands (yeah, I know the arguments, but fighting it in court is still a long ways off at that point).

I've had a few say that they'd be, uhm..."serious" about a person who went to such lengths to get away with speeding. Most are pretty cool about radar detectors, but that's about as far as it goes IME.

Given how my instant-on/laser/LIDAR experiences have gone, I'd rather take my chances on the LEO letting me off after getting gets a reading.

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Accumulator Practical Perfectionist Accumulator is offline Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 20,382	Re: Valentine 1 vs. Bel 980 velobard- My conversations with LEOs make me reluctant to try the various countermeasures available. For every cop who'll just shrug and clock somebody else, there seem to be a lot more of them who would decide the driver they couldn't clock is the most interesting person they're gonna see on that shift. They can always use their "visual" to pull somebody over, and then things are pretty much in their hands (yeah, I know the arguments, but fighting it in court is still a long ways off at that point). I've had a few say that they'd be, uhm..."serious" about a person who went to such lengths to get away with speeding. Most are pretty cool about radar detectors, but that's about as far as it goes IME. Given how my instant-on/laser/LIDAR experiences have gone, I'd rather take my chances on the LEO letting me off after getting gets a reading.