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Remember when they used to have those signs saying speed monitored by airplane?
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:06 pm
And there would be stripes every so often across the road. Was that fake? Did anyone ever get a ticket from that?
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Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:09 pm to OysterPoBoy
I had a buddy that did…. But it never seemed like it would be very profitable
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:09 pm to OysterPoBoy
Not fake, they got me on I49 in the late 90s, still doesn't pass the smell test but what can you do.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:09 pm to OysterPoBoy
Yes my buddy got pulled over in Alabama by a trooper who said he was clocked by plane. Don’t know how it’s legal really but I know nothing about how it works.
This post was edited on 5/12/24 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:12 pm to OysterPoBoy
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This post was edited on 5/13/24 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:12 pm to OysterPoBoy
That kinda crap is just plane wrong
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:13 pm to OysterPoBoy
I did once about 20 years ago on Hwy 90 near Patterson.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:13 pm to OysterPoBoy
I got pulled over in college on I-95 by FHP near Daytona using a plane to clock me.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:17 pm to adamau
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:25 pm to chalupa
When av gas was less than $2 a gallon and flying for max fuel efficiency it really didn't cost that much to run a 150 or 172 and do this.
Probably get 9 gallons an hour.
Probably get 9 gallons an hour.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:27 pm to OysterPoBoy
A friend that I worked with got a ticket like that years ago. They just timed you hitting the stripes. He said it was pretty darn accurate as to how fast he was going. It was on the basin headed to Lafayette.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:27 pm to OysterPoBoy
The signs are still out there.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:29 pm to OysterPoBoy
Yea I got pulled over by a Cessna on I10 in Pensacola
Posted on 5/12/24 at 11:19 pm to OysterPoBoy
I got a ticket on I-12 in the 90s
Posted on 5/12/24 at 11:22 pm to OysterPoBoy
They catch me all the time but the planes never bother to land when I pull over
Posted on 5/12/24 at 11:42 pm to OysterPoBoy
They were real. Plane or chopper would be out there spotting speeders, do the math on line crossing, then call down to a cruiser for the ticket. I think with the slashing of police budgets over the years that was probably high on the chopping block. Seemed wildly expensive just to catch a few speeders.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 11:52 pm to OysterPoBoy
I can remember seeing those signs, crossing from Baldwin County into Pensacola. I always wondered if it was bullshite.
This post was edited on 5/12/24 at 11:55 pm
Posted on 5/13/24 at 12:12 am to OysterPoBoy
Soon, when you speed over the speed limit, your car will just print out a speeding ticket from the dashboard.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 12:40 am to LSShoe1030
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But it never seemed like it would be very profitable
I love how "public safety" has only become important if it makes a profit.
If the state passed a law stating all traffic fines go to the state general fund you'd see traffic tickets drop off over night.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 12:50 am to adamau
But are there any cops, at all, between Mobile and Montgomery on 65? I think I've seen one, who blew past me when I was doing 90, in 25 years. Nobody watching that shite.
Not that I mind, of course.
Not that I mind, of course.
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