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Ian UK
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Have you any idea how ridiculous that sounds?
For a start there aren't many planes that travel that slowly. Your average small planes only do that kind of speed when someone is about to parachute out of it (been there several times) and your average passenger planes travel at around 500 miles an hour.
Aside from this, to be able to get a reading from something that's travelling above you at a few thousand feet would require a VERY steady hand.
At the end of the day, I can't see why your average cop would want to risk losing their job for integrity issues just to catch one speeding driver by falsifying a speed gun reading when the majority or drivers speed at some point. There are that many drivers who are likely candidates for a ticket that they don't really need to falsify readings.
As for being told this by a taxi driver, in my experience, they are one of the worst groups of offenders. The majority of taxi drivers I stop are either for speeding, parking wherever they like (junctions, pedestrian crossings, the middle of the road), jumping red lights or for having defective vehicles. They are not always the most reliable of drivers on the road. |
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Because taxi drivers know soooo much... |
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"isitme"
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your taxi driver is talking tosh!
However, there was a story from Wiltshire constabulary where officers were on radar duties. They saw a low flying Harrier and pointed the radar at it, it registered a speed of 300mph.
About half-hour later they received a call from their control room who informed them that the RAF had been on.
The Harrier, as it turned out, had just been on a live bombing exercise over Salisbury Plane, the weapons system was still on, and it had picked-up their equipment as a hostile radar and, had it still been armed, the internal defence system would have let a missile go at them!
Try explaining that to your Sergeant! |
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carswoody
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I can see it now......
A...What speed is the defendant accused of doing?
B...You worships I recorded the defendant travelling at 290mph in a 30 zone! |
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Bear
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Absolute tosh!!!!!! How many planes fly at 70mph!!!!!!!!
For one why would any officer want to do that???? If an officer committed perjury they not only risk losing their livelihood, but also risk a stint in prison too.
There are plenty of people speeding excessively for the police to deal with. Those that are not speeding would not be targeted maliciously as suggested.
I think speeding is an issue and is strongly linked to road-deaths, however I think the government have jumped on this excessively as a way of generating revenue.
From what I have seen of many taxi drivers and the speed in which they drive, they have the most to fear. |
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jamesdean2002uk
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thats like saying that you believe what the papers say - |
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arfenundred
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as aircraft travel at several hundred miles per hour i
find this very doubtful...
it must be a thick taxi driver... |
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nolongerhere
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Ye, they do it to people walking |
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Jeff M
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That's pretty funny, Now besides the fact that most of the time Air Planes are going faster than 70 mph, how short of a supply of speeders do you think there are to make an officer risk his job to frame a random driver? |
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Marxsparx
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I think the police have looked at recording speeding motorists from planes, but the scenario you describe is not for real!
Imagine the ticket coming through.... You have been caught doing 500mph in a 30! |
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Lurch
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I don't see much truth in that. Even small planes travel faster than an average car. |
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joan k
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What rubbish. This person was having you on. |
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chilebreath
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That you would even pose this question speaks volumes. |
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old fuzz
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In the small town I worked, I once was working traffic at the edge of town. Suddenly my radar picked up an 85 mph reading. But there was no vehicle in sight. Then I realized I had picked up the crop duster plane in the field across the roadway.
A low flying crop duster is about the only thing a traffic cop could use to falsify a traffic radar reading. Most aircraft fly much faster than most cars go, and, being overhead a couple thousand feet, they are too small a target for the traffic device to read. Your taxi driver yanked your leg off with this one.
Most officers will not even show you the traffic radar read out. This is because you are a threat to the officer's safety once out of the car. Furthermore, the officer is responsible for your safety, wandering along the side of the road, going back to the patrol car is a good way to get hit. Ask a few highway patrol officers. . .
Since there is no requirement to show you the read out, there is no necessity to fake one. |
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whitefangz1
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The range on the radar gun isn't more than 100 - 150 yards so that plane would have to be flying awfully low.
If the plane is flying 70 mph, then it is stalled out and in the process of crashing. This could explain why it is flying so low. |
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edd_the_fed
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The laser lti 20-20 that I use at work only has a range up to a mile away, dont think it would work at 33000 feet!
Theres that many speeders on the road that I dont have to fix the figures.
Hope he didnt pull the wool over your eyes when it came to the fare |
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tilac
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Hh ha ha ha .... but saying hat, nothing shocks me in this mad country anymore. xxx |
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CLARABELL
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To be able to convict you of an offence they would need to prove it. If an aeroplane sets off a speed trap (highly unlikely as it would be much to far away) that is what image would be recorded. You do have the right to view the image and they are often shown if you attend a driving course instead of having points put on your licence. |
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Taf
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In the 1990's on holiday in California, rented car, driving from L.A. to San Francisco, on a long straight lonely road in the middle of nowhere a Police car pulled me over as a Police aeroplane had recorded me speeding.
Unless it was a lie? I paid the fine. |
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Sarah E
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No they can't. The link below details the cruising speeds of commerial jet aircraft. The standardised result is between 100 m/s (metres per second) and 260 m/s (about 570 mph). Military aircraft are much faster, with many capable of breaking the sound barrier (between 762mph at sea level and 660 at 40,000 feet). Even a large, propeller-driven plane such as a Hercules cruises at 336mph. |
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anjana t
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Fairly typical psychotic symptom, it is delusions of persecution. The cabby was ill |
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