Spotted
From The West Australian
November 03, 2005
This radar detector
on the dash of Liberal member for Roe Graham Jacobs' parliamentary
car..
It was a commendable
spot of private-eye work by an IC spy.
While it's perfectly
legal to use a radar detector, here in WA at least, it's not very
community-minded, says Sen. Const. John Pintabona, from the police
camera section.
"Yes, they
are legal but it's much better to abide by the speed limit at all
times in the first place," he tut-tutted. "From a traffic
point of view, we don't like to see them because in essence they tell
you when a radar is trained on your vehicle. He should know better."
"Put it this
way, I still have plenty of demerit points left if that's what you
mean," he said. "But I do travel enormous distances in my
electorate, which is a third the size of Victoria, and I've passed
through plenty of radars in my travels."
His son, who had
been living in Beijing, had brought it back and asked him to try it
out.
"He thought
it might be handy," Dr Jacobs said. "The only problem is,
the stupid thing doesn't seem to want to work. It goes off at every
automatic sliding door but it doesn't seem to be triggered by radars."
Not being all that
fussed about approaching doors, automatic or otherwise, the doctor
said he had ended the trial with a "thanks, but no thanks".
