| I have been a "victim" of police radar speed traps. | | | | much. But I do love my GPS. For finding anything |
| I say a "victim" because I didn't deserve a | | | | from the best Italian restaurant nearby to a way |
| speeding ticket. I know, I know, that's what most | | | | around a traffic jam, the more I use my GPS, |
| people say. Calls pour into our traffic law office | | | | the more I use my GPS! |
| daily with other "victims" eager to tell their stories | | | | Well, like a popular country music song goes, "I |
| of innocence. | | | | thought I loved you then"! |
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| received that last speeding ticket. Then, I'll tell you | | | | speed traps in the area and is continually updated |
| why it'll be my last! | | | | in real time via satellite. |
| Sunday evening, I was driving home from the | | | | It would have saved me from the ticket above. I |
| lake on a 2- lane highway. A car was in front of | | | | would not have picked that particular time to pass |
| me pulling a boat on a trailer that was too big for | | | | that car with my GPS flashing "Alert" "Alert". |
| his car. When the driver reached 45 mph or | | | | Phantom Alert is not a radar detector. It is |
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| drinking or not, but the radical movements of his | | | | enforcement "points of interest". I don't have this |
| car just made me want to get my family away | | | | software so I can speed or avoid DUI |
| from the whole operation. | | | | checkpoints. I have it to save me, my driving |
| I passed the car and went about 10 mph over | | | | record, and my insurance rates when I end up in |
| the speed limit doing so. Yes, I drove right into | | | | the wrong place at precisely the wrong time. And |
| one of the police radar speed traps along the | | | | that it has! |
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| precarious fishtailing boat and car rig proceed on | | | | can't afford to have another traffic citation on |
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| about why I was speeding past this road hazard. | | | | record. |
| I'm not really very "techy" and I don't like gadgets | | | | |