Levergunner Highway Patrol

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:44 am

'Cause some of us just can't get used to new-fangled gear...

cnjarvis · Post by **cnjarvis** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:49 am

LOL, How's he going to catch them? That must be one fast horse!

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:50 am

cnjarvis wrote:LOL, How's he going to catch them? That must be one fast horse!

Never met a car that drove faster than the speed of radio...

cnjarvis · Post by **cnjarvis** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:07 pm

Reminds me of a story about my great-grandfather when he was pulled over by a state trooper for speeding.

Story goes something like this:

"Officer, can I get a ticket for calling you a ***?"
Trooper: Yes sir, you can.
"Can I get a ticket for thinking it?"
Trooper: No sir.
"Well then, that's what I think."

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:17 pm

A horse mounted State Trooper on the freeway would be a traffic hazard all by itself. Drivers would be so distracted looking at him they'd crash.

I think it's funny.

Joe

45-70- · Post by **45-70-** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:21 pm

Joe, your right. My friend's dad crashed the family car because he was watching a young cute thing walk down the sidewalk. He had one heck of a time trying to explain to the wife how he banged up the car.

cutter · Post by **cutter** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:45 pm

45-70- wrote:Joe, your right. My friend's dad crashed the family car because he was watching a young cute thing walk down the sidewalk. He had one heck of a time trying to explain to the wife how he banged up the car.

Oh gosh! I ran over a guy in Gatlinburg Tennessee because I was looking at a babe on the side walk!

Rexster · Post by **Rexster** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:44 pm

While the pic may have been staged just for a laugh, it may be real. The officer/trooper is not on the freeway itself, but the in the grass by the feeder road. It is not unusual for the guy working the laser or radar unit to read the speed, and use a radio to notify a fellow officer farther along. Both have to come to court to make the case stick. The bulk of the device makes me wonder, though, as it does not look like a laser unit; more like an older radar unit, and most of those I have seen need an external power source.