Barney is setting up speed traps

He's going to the air.

One show I can't watch just to stupid. Barney is the reason, even though he laughed all the way to the bank.

He's starting to show up way too often here as well.

New Mexico used Cessnas as far back as the 1960s. I know of one stretch of road, from Alamagardo, NM to somewhere S. of Lubbock, Tx., forget the mileage and the highway number, maybe 50 miles, straight as an arrow, flat, barren land, no nothing the whole way.....posted speed limit, back in 2008 when I was on it.......45 MPH. Now if that isn't a speed trap I don't know what is.

Apparently the signs meant nothing as every car that came in my direction flew past me. I held the line as I remembered learning of the Cessnas.

(quoted from post at 09:51:40 10/25/21) New Mexico used Cessnas as far back as the 1960s. I know of one stretch of road, from Alamagardo, NM to somewhere S. of Lubbock, Tx., forget the mileage and the highway number, maybe 50 miles, straight as an arrow, flat, barren land, no nothing the whole way.....posted speed limit, back in 2008 when I was on it.......45 MPH. Now if that isn't a speed trap I don't know what is.

Apparently the signs meant nothing as every car that came in my direction flew past me. I held the line as I remembered learning of the Cessnas.

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een on 121 lately? I am a regular there and in 70 zone, 80 to 90 & up seems to be the new normal, with very, very light patrolling.

In 1961 I got nailed with radar east of Tucumcari, NM for 87 in a 70 mile zone after I'd come up hill for a mile.

The Trooper who wrote the ticket just made it out for 80 in a 70 zone. Then, it was mid-afternoon so instead of going to a roadside JP I went to the court house in Tucumcari while I was going past anyway and went in to traffic court.

The judge was decent enough. He said, Look just because we caught you speeding I don't want you to think we're treating you like a hardened criminal, but, dammit, we set these speed limits for a reason and we have to stick with them. He charged me a dollar per mile over the limit and $5 court costs. I walked out for $15.

I thought they all were kind of relaxed about the whole thing.

(quoted from post at 08:51:40 10/25/21) New Mexico used Cessnas as far back as the 1960s. I know of one stretch of road, from Alamagardo, NM to somewhere S. of Lubbock, Tx., forget the mileage and the highway number, maybe 50 miles, straight as an arrow, flat, barren land, no nothing the whole way.....posted speed limit, back in 2008 when I was on it.......45 MPH. Now if that isn't a speed trap I don't know what is.

Apparently the signs meant nothing as every car that came in my direction flew past me. I held the line as I remembered learning of the Cessnas.

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I thought every state did that until radar became cheap and effective for all three scenarios (officer sitting still, officer moving and traffic either going or coming). My cousin flew one and operated the stop watch for Kansas Highway Patrol until the mid 70s. They could line up 3 or 4 ground units at one location and nail over 50 per shift on I70. The painted markers represented little airplanes with wings, fuselage and stabilizer.

Goose, it must have worked!

Sixty one years later you still remember it and must have changed your criminal ways! LOL

South Dakota highway patrol nailed my father in law for 80 in a 55 driving his 1966 IH. The officer who made the stop walked around his truck several times then radioed the plane and informed him there was simply no way this old geezer in this rickety truck was going that fast, apologized to FiL and let him go.
He'd actually been pushing a hundred but slowed down because he saw the plane.

Ohio has been usen planes and Helicopters for years . Back in 73 when the new I H 4200 was put in service was when i stepped up the game of cops and robbers along with the new CB company radio came a Regency 12 channel scanner to stay up on the latest Portable scale locations since being and OUTLAW coal bucket driver with questionable hauling habits . It was not long before you found out that OH the planes used the same freq. Ohio will take a section of road usually a mile stretch and break it down into 1/4 mile sections and the plane times you thru the quarter ( bet ya did not know you were DRAG racing .) At times it made for some interesting listening . Then they started to use it to SPY on use coal buckets while loading . They first did this when the big Iron ore haul was in full swing . We were hauling iron ore pellets off lake Eire down to the mills in Youngstown , Warren and Sharron , don't ask me how many trucks as it was and endless flow up and down RT 11 off the dock up to 10 175 Michigan loaders loading non stop six and a half buckets to a load , use to be seven but they cut us back as someone got upset with us bring130000 out each trip so we had to stay under 119000 . I was loading on the last load for the day when i heard the plane telling the bear ( i have a blue one just leaving the dock now that has 6 and a half buckets on a red Mack behind him with the same as they are all loading six and a half buckets , then the bear tells the plane that they were going to set up just south of I 90 and i will call for more units just start stacking them up .I was loading for Warren and i am NOT dumping off a third of my load and set while they weigh each and every truck ain't happen . As Rt .11 is NOT the only way to Warren So i threw a curve to there game plan when i got down to I 90 i pointed it west towards Cleveland and i heard the plane call and tell them that the Cream and Yellow one had turned off and was west bound on I 90 and he was not sure where i was headed and called the post to see if he could get a unit to chase me down . They did NOT have any extra units and i kept on going west till i came up on a road that went south and it put me 30 miles away from the Circus and then went on to Warren coming in the back side . When i went thru the gate at Republic Steel the guard asked me where all the trucks went and i told him OH they will be coming sometime as the state patrol has all of them lined up just south of I 90 and weighing them . Then again in 1980 they did this down on the river in Cinnci with the trucks loading road salt off the river this time i got caught with my pants down and had to bluff my way out of that one , they did not weigh me but the guy i was running with was NOT so lucky as they got him for 15000 over . He was about the Dumbest bucket driver i had ever run with .

Here in Michigan, I don't see anyone getting pulled over by the Police anymore. The manpower is just not there, they cannot afford to tie a car up on a traffic stop or arrest. Speed limit signs have now just become a suggested travel speed.

Agreed.
Saturday we pulled our 30' travel trailer home from Sugar Springs (about half way between West Branch and Gladwin) to Ypsilanti. We went west to US 127 vs I-75/US23 due to construction.
I usually run with the trucks, mostly 60-65mph.
It is scary to have vehicles pulling trailers of all sizes and loads pass us that are going 80-85mph. Then, in the mix, were cars and pickups doing 85-90.
Notice I said, Saturday. No way would I try to pull on Sunday.
Also, so many vehicles are from south of the Michigan boarder. Wish neighboring states were a little more lenient.
By the way, I have not received a speeding ticket since 1984. Deserve one? Probably.

WATERMAN AEROBILE...BE BLESSED, GRATEFUL, PREPARED...

Darn Barney can't trust him getting sneaky

I like how you treated that.....got it out of the way so that you could forget about it. Not doubt, traffic tickets are a significant source of income for entities who use them.

So years ago I was going to Lubbock, Tx. and speeding, don't remember the number but over the limit...same thing, barren lonely stretch of the road and was starting to climb the Cap Rock from Sweetwater, Tx. I think was the route. Upon reaching the top just so happened that a State Trooper was coming the other way and with his left hand still on his steering wheel he shook his index finger at me.......either I wasn't going all that much over the limit, or he felt that you could fudge the limit out there a little bit, or he was in a hurry to get somewhere and didn't feel like messing with a ticket. Apparently his RADAR picked me up over the hill, out of line of sight.