I’m a Firefighter & First Responder of 15 years. Any firefighter will know what this term means: ACCOUNTABILTY. That’s what we pound into our new guys. Regardless of being on duty or off duty, firefighters must maintain a level of standards higher then what most civilians live by. We made the choice to put our lives in harms way & risk the chance that we may not come home because of the choices we take everyday. However, that doesn’t mean we are above the law or deserve special treatment that others won’t get. If you speed, be prepared to get a ticket. It’s only a matter of time.

Does special treatment happen – of course it does. Consider it a perk or a free pass at times. I’ve been given that chance twice in my career. It was early-on when I was young & thought I was better then most because I was a firefighter. Unless you have red lights flashing & sirens sounding – you’re breaking the law if you speed. It sucks sometimes getting tickets – we all speed & sooner or later you will get caught if you repeatedly do it. My point is, no-one is above the law, not even Leo’s. Their job is to enforce the laws, not play favoritism. Don’t you wish that was always the case?

I respect my job & my fellow brothers (firefighters). I feel your pain & understand your feeling on this. I think you got the ticket because 15 over is a lot. Just my opinion but to me that’s why you weren’t just given a verbal warning & sent on your way. The Leo’s in my area do a great job of enforcing the law & understanding that sometimes it’s ok to warn the person versus ticket them, but when it calls for a ticket, they write you up. We’ve had a few firefighters get tickets responding to the scene of an accident & in their personal marked vehicles. You wanna see a sad sight, watch a firefighter get handed a ticket in front of his fellow firefighters & bystanders & news media on scene.

Don’t take this the wrong way, I’m not against you or your complaint. I just feel that no-one should think like they deserve any special treatment or the right to not be given a ticket because of a job they perform.

Just my 2 cents!


Stay safe.

 

Hey, no worries mate! You can disagree with WildBill and me and it's no offense. Once you have working experience with LIDAR-equipped LE, you'll be one of us. There's no behind-hill or around-the-corner signal bleed with a pencil-thin laser. You won't know what hit you until it's way, way too late. I've avoided many tickets over the last 10 years by using a radar detector. That's with X, K, and Ka-band signals. But with LIDAR, you can't react faster than the laser signal can travel. If you can, you're in a speed range where you're either not speeding, or you're just at two or three over. There's no signal to pick up until it's on you.

 

Well, here's my own belief. I hate electronic monitoring. Period. As another individual said, it's just another form of revenue income under the disguise of trying to reduce accidents, injuries and death. If I could afford it, I would invest in the radar detection and jamming systems. I also like the system that recognizes the flash from the speed/red light cameras then emits a blinding light that washes out your license plate.
As HD says, stick it to the man!

 

I use radar only with my BMW motorcycle cuz I do speed sometimes and the noise reminds me to look at my speedo...Do not use one on the Ulta Classic...it's more of a relaxed ride...I have a beltronics that I use and has been good so far...Not to be a jerk but if your post was about the radar units...you set yourself up by adding the LEO FF commets...

 

Yeah..Ok, whatever you say. But, "there's no signal to pick up until it's on you" applies to all the radar modes too; the hot tip is, you get an alert before the leo can clock you. It WORKS. As for LIDAR, or whatever the technology becomes, don't be too shocked if the radar detector industry comes up with some kind of countermeasure for us to use against that, like they did with radar. It's the American way, don't you know?

 

Got to go with Texas Redneck on this.
Maybe you didn't "badge" them, but the fact it is in plain sight
painted on the bike is enough.
If you are busy fighting some fire at joe citizens house, are you going to
stop before you're done to go do an LEO's ? No I don't think so.
But it's the same reasoning on P.C.
But it is total officer discretion as to a ticket. If you violated the limit
you deserve a ticket just like anybody else no matter who the HECK you are or where you work. If the officer is feeling generous and let's you off then that is HIS choice.
I've had many times I could of had a ticket, but the officer was having a good day and let me off with a warning. Heck twice in one day about 15 minutes apart.
1st HP: was speed (5mph over) county road no traffic.
2nd HP heard the stop on radio and waited for me 10 miles down the road.
This time he claimed the fringe on tool bag mounted on back of tour pack partially obscurred the plates.
Bag had been there four years, no other officer ever mentioned it.
He just had a boring day and felt a need to hassle me and see how I would respond to two successive stops.
I politely removed in front of him and said no problem. And was on my way.
In my area LEO's drive white cars/ suv and HP black ones (w/ low sil lights).
I see white or black on horizon I automatically check my speed.
No need for a radar detector.
Most of time I am under anyway.
Might want to do an attitude check on your self at the stop also.

 

If I stop a firefighter, I never issue a ticket,,,not even a warning. If I stop any law enforcement officer, I never write a ticket. If I stop a young man in the military,,, no ticket. I dont care how fast they are going. They are public servants and I neverissue any of them tickets. But since I'm in sales and not in law enforcement, I don't even carry tickets with me...I hate those things.

 

Valentine 1 is the best. Great source of info is guysoflidar.com, and great forum is radardetector.net.

RD will help, but instant on and lidar will still get ya if your not paying attention. Go read the tests on guysoflidar and I think you will be impressed with this bunch of hobbists that put this stuff together.

Longsnowsm

 

I generally make sure that the needle on my speedometer is somewhat close to what the sign says the speed limit is.

 

I would like to know if anyone has tried any of these so-call Jammer units.

Blinder M25 X-Treme
here is a link to one:http://www.radarbusters.com/laser-ja...me.cfm#details

I rarely believe the hype of adds. I will trust word of mouth more than someones add campaign.

I am thinking of getting some kind of jammer unit. I like cruzin at 75mph to 80mph.. And I get to use my 6th gear on me scooter.

ToadsUltra07
"If yah feel froggie, JUMP!"