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Re: Lasers in Maryland



In article <44s6ub$qor@fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com>,
NMA  <nma@genie.geis.com> wrote:
>The state's appellate court has found that the theory of laser speed 
>detection devices is valid.

Since the theory *is* valid, this is no real surprise.

I was in Maryland just last week and saw a laser trap on eastbound
I-70 a few miles west of Baltimore.  It was like a typical VASCAR
setup, with the cop parked on the median near the top of a hill
looking across the valley at cars as they crest the opposite hill.
Rather than timing them between the VASCAR lines painted on the road,
however, there was a laser unit set up on a tripod.  As the Maryland
State Police are known to do, the cop's car was maroon in color,
unmarked, and had its trunk lid raised in an effort *not* to look like
a speed trap.  He already had someone pulled over as I drove by.

                             :: Jeff Makey
                                jeff@sdsc.edu

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department


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