🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4aj729$5jn@nc.itntl.bhp.com.au>, Mick Quirk <Quirk.Mick.MJ@bhp.com.au> writes:
|> 
|> Anthony Murdoch <A.Murdoch@mailbox.uq.oz.au> wrote:
|> >H.E. wrote:
|> >> 
|> >> I suggest as an act of courtesy that all motorists flash their head-lights for
|> >> incoming traffic in case they see a radar trap.  This is of course if you have
|> >> decided not to run the radar and its operator over!!!!!!!!!!!! (not suggested!)
|> >> Be careful doing this - quite often the Police will set up another trap in 
|> >preparation for this.  Although they cannot charge you for warning other drivers, 
|> >they can charge you for improper use of your headlights :\
|> >
|> >Cheers
|> >ant
|> 
|> Actually the police should not charge you for flashing your headlights at 
|> oncoming cars as the law states that high beam can be used as a warning 
|> to other motorists. It doesn't state what you can or can't warn others 
|> about. I suppose most people who get booked just pay the fine to avoid 
|> costly complications (which is what started this off in the first place).
|> 

In fact the police can charge you with "interferring with a police
operation" if they can prove, or the judge is lead to believe, that you
flashed your lights to warn others of the police operation.

The fact that police say they are just trying to slow people down and are
not on a money making venture, which will be the effect of flashing your
lights, is beside the point.

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| Michael HART                  | "If you want a straight line take  |
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