BETTER SLOW DOWN OR ELSE....

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Digg del.icio.us Newsvine Reddit Facebook What's this? By Joanne Bratton, USA TODAY

Speeders beware. Your neighbors might have you on their radar. That's the message police departments across the country are trying to send by loaning residents radar guns and turning them into neighborhood speed watchers.

Volunteers can't ticket the drivers they catch breaking the speed limit, but their reports can result in warning letters being sent by police, depending on how fast the drivers were going.

 

Police say the program is worth it if it can make even a few motorists obey speed limits. "It's one more element of enforcing speed," says Lt. Daniel Furseth of the DeForest Police Department in Wisconsin.

 

For the past year, the village has allowed residents to borrow a battery-operated radar gun for a week or two, sit on their front lawns and record the speeds of passing motorists.

 

Typically, a warning letter is sent when speeds are 13 mph over the limit, but it depends on the residential area, Furseth says.

 

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The police department has sent out a couple dozen warning letters, he says. "One parent called and was glad we sent a letter," Furseth says. "But it's not always the kids (who are speeding) — it's the soccer moms, too."

 

Elsewhere:

 

•Residents in Loveland, Ohio, are invited to sign up in teams of two or three to use the Stalker II, a handheld, battery-operated radar gun.

 

•In the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Ill., residents affiliated with homeowners associations use the radar guns. "Some people seemed surprised. Some took notice and slowed down," says Bob Fischer, director of the Naperville Area Homeowners Confederation. "Others were angry that we were interfering with their inherent right to get to the train station — or back home — as quickly as possible."

 

•In Shawnee, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, police allow residents to use radar guns on residential streets that are posted 25 mph or less, police Sgt. Doug Orbin says. The volunteer must stay in his or her vehicle while using the radar gun, he says.

 

•This week, the police department in The Dalles, Ore., started taking names of interested citizens who want to be neighborhood speed watchers

 

[Guest [APC]Swifthawk]

leave it to us wisconsinites to become so bored we let citizens work the radar guns, lol.

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Swifthawk ]

leave it to us wisconsinites to become so bored we let citizens work the radar guns, lol.

 

 

LMAO!!!

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[Guest [+30]PuddyTat]

anyone want to know how to keep a speeding ticket off of your record??? ;D

[inadub]

anyone want to know how to keep a speeding ticket off of your record??? ;D

 

yea dont speed!...lol jk

 

[Deutscher75]

anyone want to know how to keep a speeding ticket off of your record??? ;D

 

doesn't it have something to do with paying the ticket through the mail and when you send the payment you overpay by a few dollars, so they have to send you a refund check, and then you never cash the refund check. And what this does is it prevents the ticket from going on your record and being filed because in order for it to go on your record all transactions involved with the ticket have to be finalized including you cashing the refund check.

 

am I right or am I wrong puddy?

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Deutscher75 ]

anyone want to know how to keep a speeding ticket off of your record??? ;D

 

doesn't it have something to do with paying the ticket through the mail and when you send the payment you overpay by a few dollars, so they have to send you a refund check, and then you never cash the refund check. And what this does is it prevents the ticket from going on your record and being filed because in order for it to go on your record all transactions involved with the ticket have to be finalized including you cashing the refund check.

 

am I right or am I wrong puddy?

 

yeppers...but you only need to overpay by a dollar or two. then when you get your refund, dont cash the check.

[Deutscher75]

Deutscher75 ]

anyone want to know how to keep a speeding ticket off of your record??? ;D

 

doesn't it have something to do with paying the ticket through the mail and when you send the payment you overpay by a few dollars, so they have to send you a refund check, and then you never cash the refund check. And what this does is it prevents the ticket from going on your record and being filed because in order for it to go on your record all transactions involved with the ticket have to be finalized including you cashing the refund check.

 

am I right or am I wrong puddy?

 

yeppers...but you only need to overpay by a dollar or two. then when you get your refund, dont cash the check.

 

I thought so, thanks for the reminder Puddy, I had a speeding ticket a couple of month's ago that I should have done this with but completely forgot about doing this. I'll have to remember for future reference and so I'm going to save this on my PDA, hopefully next time I won't have to have the ticket or points

 

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