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On dc.general, juliew@fairfax.com (Julia Wines) posts:
 > New Jersey state troopers do this all the time on the Atlantic City
 > Expressway between Philadelphia and Atlantic City.  They don't even
 > bother with the radar gun or mannequin... they just park a car about
 > once every 10 miles with no one in it.  It does make you slow down!

Virginia's latest favorite is to park a civilian car at the side of
the road and a cruiser behind it, lights a-blazing and at such an
angle that when you look from behind, you can't tell there's no one in
the other car.  Then, a half mile up the road is the real speed trap.
I have to admit that it's a great idea, but there are a couple of
holes in it: First, if the cruiser is parked as skewed as it is, the
light on the left side would be nearly useless for illuminating the
other car for stops made at night.  Second, for the cruiser to be
sitting at the odd angle it is, the driver would have needed to drive
way off the road and back out at the odd angle (or risk backing in and
getting hit).  Anytime I've ever seen a routine traffic stop, the
officer's car had been parked squarely behind the victim -uh-
offender.

I've never seen this done on I-95, but I do see it once in awhile on
I-66 out past Manassas.

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