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Old 03-03-2013, 08:17 AM   #1
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Cool Cop in Savannah

So I am cruising along in one of those neighborhoods with an extremely low speed limit (25 & 30 MPH). The road cuts half way across town so there is a steady stream of traffic and everyone know the cops are in there to keep the speed down. I am usually a cruise control kind of driver but, I was talking to my wife and was didnt set it.

We all speed at some point, but I am usually a 5 MPH kind of guy. I have an Escort 9500xi, I keep the RD on because it evens the playing field. LEOs use radar to keep tabs on me and they typically drive around with the radar on so I can keep tabs on them. Besides, I am not into adding money into the coffers of every small town in the south with a speed trap (and that is not stereotyping; there are a LOT of them).

I see this LEO pull up to the main road from a side street and he has his lights on. My Escort 9500xi is quiet so I am looking at him like "what is he doing?" so I look at my speed and Im going mid 30's (37 mph when I look down)...yeah he is coming for me. I pull over and he asks that I move up to the next side street.

Sits back there and runs the tag and then comes up. Asks if I know the speed limit and I tell him yeah, its 30 MPH. This is when I am clarified that there are sections of 25 MPH (I was just in) and school zone with increased fines (which I thankfully was not in) and that he clocked me at 38 MPH. He asked for my license and said if everything comes back good he would just give me a warning. I am pretty excited to hear this since I have never had a warning in my life, just the ticket.

I ask him how he clocked me and he said with radar. I told him I had a detector and that it didnt go off (wife looks at me like I am a tard). He ducks down to see it mounted up under the rearview mirror. He said it was just a quick on/off. I said well it should still pick it up. He said well I hit you two more times when I pulled out behind you. Yep, it should have gone off.

He comes back with a warning and tells me to go up the street and come back down and he will hit me again to see if the RD goes off. So I go up a bit turn around and come back down with the cruise on this time. Silence. He said asks "anything?"
"no"
"I hit you (3) times, exactly 25 MPH each time"
"well at least my speedometer is accurate; thanks for everything"
"Id take that thing back; be safe"

SO a very cool cop, and a $hitty $500 radar detector (11 months old)!

I turned off & restarted the unit as I drove away and drove around a few more hours. It went off 2-3 times during the day. I called Escort a short time later and raised the roof! The guy asks if I have a piece of paper to write some info down on. I tell him yeah, luckily i have this ^&*$@# speeding ticket handy that his radar detector got me! They asked me to send it in and they will run all the operational tests and hot & cold testing repair and send it back. I expect a $500 piece of equipment to work EVERY TIME!

Sorry for the rant but I am a bit pi$$ed off. Anyone else have a similar story?
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