Re: Airplane enforcement

[Alan Lambert <gerard@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998 joxxer@domain.elided wrote:

> Is there anyone who has been caught by the airplane
> enforcement out in the scarcely populated regions of the state? Or even
> the densely populated regions? My theory is that it is just an inside
> joke among the state troopers.

You got lucky--I didn't--

On #280, going South,about 1/2 mile south of #92 (for the non-locals, this 
is about 10 miles south of San Francisco, leading down the Peninsula) I 
passed four or five Patrol cars parked on the right. Having seen them in 
plenty of time, I slowed from 80 mph to the 65 mph limit. A few moments 
later, a patrol car came up behind me and turned on his red lights. When 
I got over to the right and stopped, he came by the window and told 
me, " You were going at 78 mph, and tail-gateing a Honda." He then 
explained how the plane had clocked me. After the Officer in the plane 
clocks a car, he radios to the patrol cars on the ground, describing the 
car, it's speed etc. The patrol car then pulls up behind the suggested 
car and radios to the plane asking if this is the correct car. If the 
plane says it is, the red lights come on! IT AIN'T FAIR!!
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Regards,
Alan G. Lambert___________________________________<gerard@domain.elided>
           *******Los Altos, California (office)*******

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