Speeding ticket/NYC...
It seems laser guns are official in NYC now. I was heading to Jersey by way of the West Side HWY on Easter Sunday...perhaps all the speedsters from the auto show could've been the reason several cops in Chargers were out on the west-side. Got stuck behind some type of construction tractor near the WTC area...soon as I saw an opening, I gunned it up to 50 to pass then slowed to around 35. Funny thing is I saw the cop hiding with the gun after I passed and didn't think it was a problem as I only sped up to pass...I have a built in radar detector/jammer in the dash and it made zero alert. She, the cop, chased me down and we talked for a moment...she says they're generally lenient up to 15mph over limit on the west. Either way she wrote me up...as she was doing so, a white Porsche came flying by! she came back to my X and was laughing as she realized that's the type of driver she's after, not those speeding-to-pass but she had already written the ticket. She heard the chirping of my radar go off and says..."I'm assuming that's a radar detector (she couldn't see it but could hear it), just so you know, by the time your radar warns you, it's too late, we use laser technology now".
I guess I need to start shopping for a radar/laser detector that can fit into the dash. Anybody have any suggestions?
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