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And, I learned a long time ago to just slow down. I started racing motorcycles about ten years ago, and cars more recently. If I need a fix of high speed driving, I go to the track. Racing, experience and age have cured me of the need or desire to drive like a tool on the street. |
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PLEASE STOP PICKING ON THE DOCS. Their job is hard enough and I think for the most part they deserve a break. They are not going to be reckless and drive like maniacs just for the hell of it. They witness first hand what can happen. If they are given a break even when they aren't necessarily headed to an emergency so what. I know a lot of cops out there who abuse the system themselves. Back to the detectors, thanks for all the info.
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v1 hands down 8+ years and it still saves my butt. during the summer if u leave it mounted it can get scorching hot
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+1 what he said. If you have the money, do the LI with V1 integration.
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And you still have not responded to my questions posed previously yet.
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My suggestion is you may want to keep the attitude to yourself as my experience in being pulled over a few times has been if I keep my cool (after all I was speeding, how can I argue?) an be courteous, you never know, they may let you go with a warning and be understanding of your circumstance - acting and talking like an arrogant pr*ck is likely to get me nowhere. |
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Its obvious you haven't even read the entire thread. I answered your "questions" and Jaypod is right. A little humility goes a long way. So does honesty. I apologize to EVERYBODY for the threadjack and for expressing my displeasure with cops getting the blame for other people's actions. Kev, grow up. |
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You are making judgments based on an online persona that you perceived on the Internet, based on your own deep rooted prejudice. You are the one who need to be more mature. If you look back, I have not blamed you or any other LEO for anything, especially for something that I chose to do. I take my chances and it is my problem. I am sure when I start to take home call I would run into this type of trouble one day and I take full responsibility for driving reckless on an empty highway at 2am. However, if I told you that I have an emergent case and I am on route to the hospital when you pull me over, I would expect the courtesy of expediting the process or if possible, to send me a ticket later in the mail and let me go on my merry way. You are given the responsbility to up hold / enforce the law, but you do not have the power to decide who is guilty. Only a court of law has the power to do that and often times when this type of cases goes to court, the charges end up getting drop / reduced. That's why we have a court system to decide who is right and who is wrong.
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Light bar and driver training? Do you know what type of "driver" training EMTs get? Luckily both my medical school and my residency program train the city and county EMTs and we have first hand experience of what type of training they got, which is fairly useless even compared to just an HDPE aimed at teaching you defensive driving. As far as light bar goes, are they really that useful at the wee hours when we are called in? I highly doubt that because other cars are far and in between at that time. I welcome your comments on these issues.
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I will call BS on this, professional courtesy is highly regarded among the force as you might already know. I know you are on the defensive here but that's not going to help you by saying that "give it to me anyway, I deserve it". As it stands cops don't give other cops tickets.
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To be fair, I think in general most cops respect the medical community and vise versa. Both are familiar with seeing carnage from road traffic accidents and both appreciate the risks and results of speeding. IMO the doctor should not be speeding unless he has had some proper training on defensive driving like most cops do. Most likely the doctor was not concentrating on the traffic/conditions but trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible.
The problem with 25 zones is that people are lazy, they take one look in the mirror, see nothing, then pull out after a few seconds and assume nothing is there. As others have said just as some doctors abuse the "emergency" card, some cops abuse the "power" card. That's human nature and not indicative of the (respective) professions in general. So maybe this doctor should have gotten a break, who knows, but the beauty of the system is, bring it to the judge and let him decide. IMO, the judge will throw out the case. Question is what did the OP learn from this? Probably nothing, because he's buying a radar detector. |
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I said "acting and talking like an arrogant pr*ck is likely to get me nowhere." Whatever- Good luck to you |
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I would kindly suggest you be very careful while you maintain your balance on your moral high horse. Good luck to you too.
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OP-the consensus here is a V1 detector and a Laser Interceptor jammer. I agree on the jammer; pricey but the best (about $700 front only/$1200 front and back) plus installation if you don't do it yourself. V1 is also top notch but two additional considerations are whether RDs are illegal where you drive and how much of your "fast driving" is highway v side roads. If side roads and lots of false alarms bother you and if RDs are illegal you might consider the BEL STi-D or STi-R. I'm no expert but it's supposedly better at filtering false alarms and is completely stealth-undetectable to RD detectors that LEAs use. The R (for remote) can be founf on the internet for $600 the D (driver) for less. Last edited by mphatic; 11-01-2009 at 09:22 PM.. Reason: typo |
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I hope this cop doesn't end up on your table/bed one day........
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