Cutout slows down drivers

[Camper6]

The cutout slows down drivers.

I love it. I live in an area where everyone speeds.

This is in the U.S. We couldn't do that in Canada because the drivers would complain that their rights were being violated, police impersonation, etc. etc. etc.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/life-sized-cutout-of-police-cruiser-slows-down-drivers-1.3499243

 

[Robusta]

Town near me would take its obsolete RADAR units,put them in a box and clip a battery to them. Didn't need a real target, the detectors would get set off a cars slowed down.

 

[Aunt Bea]

A small town near me parks an empty patrol car in the bushes right where the speed limit drops to 30 MPH as you enter the village, to discourage speeders.

Once in a while they shake things up and put an officer in the patrol car to actually catch speeders as they enter the village.

 

[Manatee]

In the town where I used to live they would park an old cruiser by the toll gate at the causeway with a manikin at the wheel to deter the people who would run through the automatic change lane.

 

[Camper6]

Town near me would take its obsolete RADAR units,put them in a box and clip a battery to them. Didn't need a real target, the detectors would get set off a cars slowed down.

Detectors are illegal in Canada.

 

[HipGnosis]

A small town near me parks an empty patrol car in the bushes right where the speed limit drops to 30 MPH as you enter the village, to discourage speeders.

Once in a while they shake things up and put an officer in the patrol car to actually catch speeders as they enter the village.

That could be construed as entrapment.

 

[Camper6]

That could be construed as entrapment.

I don't think a cruiser could be construed as entrapment whether it has a driver in it or not.

How could a cruiser encourage you to speed. That would be entrapment.

 

[Aunt Bea]

That could be construed as entrapment.

When the cruiser if empty it's just a car parked on the side of the road.

When the cruiser is manned it is a police officer doing his job to uphold the law.

Even if the policeman was driving an ice cream truck I would feel that he was just enforcing the law.

To me entrapment is when the police entice you into breaking a law and then arrest you.

 

[Falcon]

Whatever it takes to make cars slow down.

Speed kills !!

 

[911]

We have tried similar acts, but after a few weeks, most everyone has figured it out and they go back to what they were doing before; speed. In the past, when I have gotten bored a few times, I would park my car alongside a busy route that we have had problems with speeders and point my radar gun at the vehicles coming at me. I have never seen so many red lights as they drive by. It's a cruel trick, I guess and my Sgt. had gotten wind of it, (yes, we have internal snitches too), and has told me to knock it off, all the while he is smiling.