DeTomaso Mailing List: August 98, Message #30

hi all,

this came from the alfa digest - any comments from the california contingency?
(steve mooney?)
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Subject: Re: Airplane enforcement

Since the citation was issued in the state of California, it is not only
unfair, it is illegal.  If you will take a look at the definition of a
"Speed Trap" in the California Vehicle Code, you will find that timing a
vehicle through a measured distance is one form of speed trap.  (Using
radar on a piece of road on which the speed limit has not been justified
by a traffic survey is the other form.)  

Most of the traffic court referees and judges in San Mateo County know
and understand this law.  Take you ticket into court and tell the
referee that you were timed from an airplane.  You would be astoundingly
unlucky if he failed to dismiss the citation.

This is only one of a number of unlawful practices engaged in now by
the California Highway Patrol.  They depend on your ignorance and
laziness to get away with it.  Don't let them.