Cops are coming down on any bikes

[awayatc]

let me think.........

No....

[HQfiend]

So they're going to enact (or re-enact) a law that makes a device that doesn't exist illegal? Eggsalad! While they're chasing their tails around writing, re-writing, passing, arguing etc about radar jammers, I'll be out building my radar DooDar visual warning aids for detectors with ear phone jacks!


Oh and I loved this comment at the ODT

Illegal radar detectors
Submitted by mc2 on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 10:47am.

Since the only possible use of a radar detector is to avoid the police when speeding, then clearly there is no legal use for them.
This should automatically make them illegal.
It should be an instant fine and confiscation of the offending device, and there should not need a law change for that to be the case.
At the very least they should be a reason for the police to pull over drivers with them in the car, under suspicion of having undertaken illegal activities (ie speeding).




because having one means you've been speeding, ergo they should automatically come into your home and confiscate knives to stop murders or pull over all males and confiscate their penis's to stop rape!

[superman]

because having one means you've been speeding, ergo they should automatically come into your home and confiscate knives to stop murders or pull over all males and confiscate their penis's to stop rape!

Guilty before proven innocent in this great country of ours? Well I never!

[SPman]

Guilty before proven innocent in this great country of ours? Well I never!

Well - that'd be a first!

[SPman]

Radar jammers are already illegal.

"Kerb finders" aren't - well, over here, anyway, and act nicely as a radar jammer and are often sold as such, over here.......

[R1madness]

I always have a radar detector mounted to my bike. I still get the odd ticket but the police i talk to are fine about detectors. Their view seems to be that they do little to protect you and i have to agree, unless you are "hidin" behind a fast moving vehicle and use the detector to tell when that vehicle has been zapped and slow down. I got a ticket for 126km (was doing more than that when the detector went off the first time) about 3 months ago and go into a discussion with the officer about detectors since he had seen mine. I told him it saved my licemce and he had a laugh about it. When i described how i used it he was interested, saying that what i was doing was risky but that he understood the desire to have a good time on good raods with a good bike. All in all a decent guy. He didnt give me any attitude and i respected the fact he was doing his job. Too many people speed then whine and bitch about getting a ticket, we all know what the law is and that we break it from time to time. Take it on the chin like a man (or woman) if you want to speed. Or get a race licence and do your speeding on the track. Oh and if you get a radar jammer they ARE illegal and you can have your vehicle confiscated for having one of them... Its a Criminal offence to pervert the course of justice and this is more or less the law trhey use to prosicute you...

[MarkH]

I have a RD. I do about 75,000km per year, car travel, plus some bike time, (but not enough time).It has saved many possible tickets by early warning
Most times I travel at 115-125km/hr. All South Is roads, usually with little to no traffic due to time of day travel
BUT
More often than not radar is now operated hot and loaded, they pull the trigger so no warning time given to allow for braking to under 110km.
now getting low on points
Any solutions out there?

Have you tried travelling at 100-105km/hr - I don't know if it would help, but it is so crazy that it might just work.

Option 2:
be luckier

[Toaster]

Speeding is simply criminal

Only during sex.

[Gremlin]

Oh and I loved this comment at the ODT

Illegal radar detectors
Submitted by mc2 on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 10:47am.

Since the only possible use of a radar detector is to avoid the police when speeding, then clearly there is no legal use for them.
This should automatically make them illegal.
It should be an instant fine and confiscation of the offending device, and there should not need a law change for that to be the case.
At the very least they should be a reason for the police to pull over drivers with them in the car, under suspicion of having undertaken illegal activities (ie speeding).

Look! A stupid person.

A lot of radar detectors also have SWS, or safety warning system. Most common use would be for roadworks on motorways, they could set up a beacon and people would get an alert for the upcoming works via the radar detector.

I believe it was offered free to the NZ Govt, which declined, believing it would lead to an increase in RD use...