Laser attack

[vito113]

…mmm, that's a point

But does that laser jammer, i believe its the LRC100 or something like that, also control garage doors?

Could they charge you if you could prove that you use it for opening your garage door?

Tan

This new model seems to have been designed however to give you a one chance jamming signal so you can slow down, smart! The older models kept on jamming and gave the game away.

Well the problem is you'd need a pretty good Barrister, loads of pennies and balls of steel to call their bluff!! Get it wrong and it could be 'go to jail, do not collect £200'.

Whilst You could sucessfully argue that it was a garage door opener if it only had a transmit option, the problem would be trying to explain why a garage door opener needed to have a laser warning receiver fitted! Hence the fitting instructions 'suggest' making the installation as discrete as possible. A common trick is to fit them behind the lower spot light blanking plates on cars without them.

Andy

 

[vito113]

Oh no its not It was a TVR!!!!

However, I much prefer the one about the two RAF pilots that were caught speeding in a porsche one night. Copper is parked at the side of the road in the pitch black and suddenly he gets a reading of 150mph+. He couldn't see anything so they set up a road block a few miles down the road and they stop this porcshe. The two RAF pilots had the lights on the porker switched off and were using night vision googles!

Probably Urban myth too ! Sill makes me laugh though.

Asked about this one through the press guys at work, seems it's not such an urban myth after all!

You'll be please to know Kinky that not only did it involve two RAF Chinook Pilots, the M25 and Night Vision Goggles, but the car in question was a TVR!! (Very popular with the Biggles types!)

It seems that just before the Gulf War, (the first one), a group of RAF Chinook pilots were issued with the then new fangled NVG's as they were going to be dropping off Special Forces guys behind enemy lines. It seems one of the Pilots owned a TVR, and him, and his co-pilot went for a blast around the M25 in the early hours without any lights to try out going at high speed in the dark. At something like 180mph and zero altitude (about the same as a Chinook), a TVR was a pretty good stand in, however the BIB were not amused, but as there was a war on were told to look the other way!

Andy

 

[Kinky]

A TiV ..... sigh .......

Perhaps it's time get Mrs K the Alfa Sportwagon - then I can get my Cerbie ....

I really really do miss the TiV - I think it's the biggest regret I've got (after giving up the piano when I was a kid and getting married the 1st time).

K

 

[vito113]

Want to borrow my NVG's?

A TiV ..... sigh ....... then I can get my Cerbie ....

I have a pair of Pilots NVG's you can borrow!

Andy

 

[Kinky]

Don't tempt me .....

 

[Philirv]

I think I got done on the M42 near Birmingham airport on Friday.

THey've put a speed limit of 50 on the motorway whilst they are working on it, and I drifted over 60 as I chatted to my passenger.

Fortunately, I was in a rental car so will argue that I don't know who was driving the car at the time.

But they've already caught about 8000 people on that stretch of the motorway so watch out !

Phil