How does police radar work?

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Originally Posted by VRM

Yep - you have about 5 minutes. I come up with 10 questions, and then eliminate the 5 worst, and then draw up a picture or three showing where everything was.

The best I know of was from guy I met at a car show a couple of years ago - he mentioned he got a ticket for chirping a tyre (display of speed) and said he was hoping the cop would not show up. I told him (half jokingly) to ask the cop if he had ever squeaked a sneaker on a basketball court, and how fast he thinks he was going when he did. He left a message on my machine a year or so ago saying he did just that and he won.

Traffic court was always interesting. I never worked traffic because I hated writing tickets and dealing with people at accident scenes, but I found myself there once in a while when someone talked their way into a ticket. The only reason the guy on the radar ticket got so much time was because it was a judge pro tem. The regular judge would have stopped the guy after a few minutes.