A stinger up their tailpipe would serve them right!
Why don't the police spend more time chasing real criminals instead of
trying to catch ordinary citizens who happened to stray over their
artificial speed limits. I believe if the authors of the U.S. Constitution
had had automobiles we would have one more paragraph in the Bill of Rights
that would outlaw Government regulation of speed.
At 10:00 AM 4/28/97 +0100, you wrote:
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>>From the radio on Monday:
>UK Police were using a radar gun to measure motorists' speed when
>they were puzzled to see a reading of over 300 mph. Suddenly, there
>was a mighty roar and an RAF Harrier zoomed overhead at
>not-very-many-feet altitude.
>A bit miffed by this, they complained to the RAF who responded that
>they were aware of the incident and were pleased with the outcome
>really, as the Harrier's defence system had locked onto the police
>radar and the automatic air-to-ground retaliation systems had been
>initiated!
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>(From BBC R4's the news quiz)
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