Finman

Just going to pay my ticket from a couple weeks ago and noticed they nabbed me from the sky! I thought it must've been some dude sitting there in the median on a chair or behind a bush or something...but it was a freakin' plane or helicopter!!! That's a first for me!

I guess when the V1 was pointing "up" indicated by the arrow, it really meant UP! not "forward"!

LMGotts

I thought aircraft usually did timings over distances to calculate your speed(ing). ? Air Ka?

Finman

Maybe I should go contest it and force them to bring the pilot, the radar dude, and the cop in to testify against me! Plus, they got it wrong, I was only going 104.9, not 108!!!

itacud

at 130 No escaping that.

QCRAZY

Radar won't work at that angle...you had to be timed or they made up the "aircraft".

Flying4.2

The only way is to time your car.

Finman

Well, I got blasted by Ka...and the ticket says "aircraft"...strange.

brian 4.2

Maybe it was in the "description of vehicle" section of the ticket.:-)

LMGotts

Maybe it meant that they thought YOU were an aircraft....? :-)

Ernesto (ERT)

They expect the average citizen to get startled (and they do) by the uniform and badge.

On my last ticket (after knowing he was there from the second he got on the FWY, he said I was going 79 in POS rental that vibrated worse than a 25 cent bed over 65mph- so not chance I was going 79), I got a lawyer, and he went with me.

So cop starts talking and mentions the calibration of the speedometer and radar.

Lawyer says "Objection" and says it's "Hearsay." Since he would like to see the calibration certifications. So they bring out the binders which has each cities (Pleasanton in this case) car and the calibration test/update. So the lawyer takes a look at it with the cop, and he says the calibration unit for the speedometer and hence the radar since they were linked) was not acceptable in court because the copies they had in the record were not signed by the tech- for all 12 cars in the Pleasanton police force!!!

So the Judge looks at the cop and asks, "What would you like to do?" Cop responds "Request a dismissal". Done I was out of there.

So why this long explanation- well because these calibration 'certifications' have been used in the court for the past 7-9 months, and each time the calibration units were brought up and/or out, anyone who didn't pick up on the signature missing got convicted.

Now I know it's a technicality, and it's only a traffic ticket- but I would be fired on the spot if I 'forgot' something like that in my daily job. And some of the things I do don't have the 'public record' factor to them.

I don't want to imagine how many people unknowingly just paid their ticket assuming everything on the cops side was up to par. It usually isn't.