DeTomaso Mailing List: March 98, Message #252
     



From: 	"Ted A. Mitchell" <tmitch@gte.net>

Subject: Re: Radar tickets [was Driving in the rain}

Date: 	Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:31:51 +0000



Because the Judge doesn't know the math.  You just claim it is inaccurate.

I once got a Judge to throw it out because I said (humbly) that even though

it is normally accurate, it isn't always "having tested one personally and

clocked my office at 80 mph".



Ted (Vader) Mitchell

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-----Original Message-----

From: Shane F. Ingate <pantera@shiseis.com>

To: Multiple recipients of list <detomaso@realbig.com>

Date: Thursday, March 05, 1998 5:40 PM

Subject: Radar tickets [was Driving in the rain}





>Steve Mooney wrote:

> >Keep in mind that if you are traveling toward the radar source at an

angle of

> >about 10 degrees at an actual speed of 100mph, the cosing factor will

FAVOR

> >your speed, indicating you are traveling slower (95-98mph).  The greater

the

> >angle the lower the radar reading.

>

>OK, so your actual speed is higher than what the radar shows.  If the

>cop....*ahem*....constable reads 95 on the radar detector, he's got you by

>the short and curlies anyway, because your actual speed was really higher.

>He does not have to prove that you were going 100mph, he's got evidence

>that you were doing 95.

>

>Isnt this right?  So why is it "easy" to beat a radar ticket?

>

> Shane Ingate in San Diego

>

>