You may have all seen this before, but I thought it appropriate for
consideration with LBC stuff. Nothing like puttering down one of those
quiet North English roads at 3,000 or so!
Subject: THE ULTIMATE RADAR DETECTOR? (fwd)
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>From "The News Quiz", BBC 4, 12 Apr 1997:
quoting an item in a paper, details not heard:
Police in Yorkshire were busily watching for speeding cars with
their mobile radar equipment when their equipment appeared to
malfunction; it began to clock a speeder at 3000 mph....
All was revealed a few seconds later when a low flying Harrier
jumpjet screamed over head.
Police registered a complaint regarding damaged radar equipment
with the MOD (UK Ministry of Defence). The MOD replied that the
damage could have been worse: the Harrier's defence systems had
latched onto the radar and had gone into an automatic pre-emptive
strike made before the pilot decided enemy anti-aircraft activity
was unlikely along the motorways of northern England...
Yours,
Alan Campbell
BRIGHTON, UK
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