Bored? Here's a fun way to amuse yourself.

[Buck Laser]

Having noticed numerous cops running their radar on the worst speed trap in town 7 days a week, it occurred to me that one could enjoy some cheap entertainment by parking under a bridge and pointing a hair dryer at oncoming traffic. You could do your own bit to slow down speeders. :lmao:

[preservanation]

idiot

[PatrickHenry]

My house is on a main highway heading into and out of my little village.

Speed zone of 35 after 55 on the highway approaching.

Many speeders are a hazard when I seek to back out of my driveway.

I may use a hair dryer for some fun!

[Pookie]

**Cough**
I did that once when I was a sheriff's deputy. I got pissy because two kids got hit within a week of each other (they survived) on a neighborhood street and the damn County Commissioners wouldn't give us radar guns so I faked it.
People quit speeding through there real damn fast!
The shiny metal ones work well, and black ones are even better.
Hey! Sometimes when you're a cop, you gotta be resourceful.
Purrs,
Pookie

[lily]

Perfect timing on this Buck. As I was driving down the 1/2 mile street to get to the main road.......a street I might add that I already got 2 tickets on, this guy coming towards me in the other lane, flashed his lights on and off......odd I thought, since it was broad daylight. He was letting me know that there was a radar cop up ahead. I didn't know it, until I passed the cop, but I did slow down when he flashed his lights, trying to figure out why he was flashing them.

[Buck Laser]

Perfect timing on this Buck. As I was driving down the 1/2 mile street to get to the main road.......a street I might add that I already got 2 tickets on, this guy coming towards me in the other lane, flashed his lights on and off......odd I thought, since it was broad daylight. He was letting me know that there was a radar cop up ahead. I didn't know it, until I passed the cop, but I did slow down when he flashed his lights, trying to figure out why he was flashing them.

I wish someone had flashed lights at my wife--last month, just before Christmas break, she was sailing through a school zone at 35 mph. She got a ticket, and now has to go to defensive driving school. I got to go twice in IL.

Flashing lights to warn of a speed trap ahead has been a common practice in TX for as long as they've had radar. I'm glad you slowed down, though.

I think I'd definitely do the hair dryer trick if we had speeders on our street. A lot of kids and dogs play near the street here. I wouldn't care so much about the cats, but....

[Pookie]

HEY!! Cats are people too!
Sheesh.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Yarp]

lol, I guess I should slow down myself when driving, but that would be funny.

[lily]

Flashing lights to warn of a speed trap ahead has been a common practice in TX for as long as they've had radar. I'm glad you slowed down, though.

He must have been from Texas then, because in all my years of driving, I've never seen it before.......I am so glad he did, and if I can return the favor or start a Texas trend here up North, I'll sure do my part.

[Pookie]

Here in NC we flash lights at oncoming traffic not only to warn of cops, but on these curvy, steep mountain roads, we flash lights to also warn of wrecks, deer, icy patches, and once a dead horse in the road. For whatever reason, here, when a car comes at you flashing, it means "Slow down! Problem ahead!"
Purrs,
Pookie

[jafar00]

Don't you think that in a terrorised America, that pointing anything faintly gun like at traffic would end with you either getting shot or sent to Gitmo? :D

[Buck Laser]

Don't you think that in a terrorised America, that pointing anything faintly gun like at traffic would end with you either getting shot or sent to Gitmo? :D

People are so used to seeing radar guns on the roads that they wouldn't think twice about it. And my complexion is too light to send me to Gitmo. :lmao:

Seriously, most Americans aren't as obsessed with terrorism as you might think--it might be different in NYC, but I doubt that many people in the US spend much time worrying consciously about terrorists in their neighborhood.

[angelamia]

Flashing lights to warn of a speed trap ahead has been a common practice in TX for as long as they've had radar. I'm glad you slowed down, though.

He must have been from Texas then, because in all my years of driving, I've never seen it before.......I am so glad he did, and if I can return the favor or start a Texas trend here up North, I'll sure do my part.


i grew up in Massachusetts and i definitely have seen warning flashes a lot.

[potter]

Flashing lights to warn of a speed trap ahead has been a common practice in TX for as long as they've had radar. I'm glad you slowed down, though.

He must have been from Texas then, because in all my years of driving, I've never seen it before.......I am so glad he did, and if I can return the favor or start a Texas trend here up North, I'll sure do my part.


I think flashing your lights to warn others of a speed trap is common throughout the US Lily....you must be the only one in the entire country who didn't know that....:madlaugh: