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Robynn Saucier stood on the sidewalk near her Lees Summit home and carefully aimed the radar gun at the black Ford 500 motoring down the roadway toward her.
Lets see what this one does, she said. Forty-one?! Shes not even slowing down. What an idiot.
Saucier is not a cop but a citizen on radar patrol.
The 58-year-old retired Southwestern Bell worker is part of a growing corps of people in communities across the country who are using police department-issued radar guns to monitor how fast motorists are driving near their homes.
Lees Summit police will send letters to motorists, alerting them that they were clocked speeding by a resident volunteer. Citations are not issued, but motorists are encouraged to slow down.
Moments later, Saucier clocked a vehicle traveling west on Longview Road at 48 mph, well above the posted 35 mph speed limit.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/27/4259543/volunteers-in-citizen-radar-patrol.html#storylink=cpy
galileoreloaded
(2,571 posts)free metal posts!
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... isn't it? Any citizen who does that is asking for it. Hope she has no kids, grandkids or pets in her neighborhood, as she's going to have to lay landmines around her fortress to protect herself. It's the wild wild west out there all over again.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)They sat in front of a house that was around a curve in the road. Speeders didn't see the cop until it was too late.
Then someone slashed the tires of the people who lived in that house. No more speed trap.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)...cop on someone's private property commandeering a speed trap. My argument is that it's dangerous for a private citizen to be doing speed traps for the police. Bet this new thing doesn't last long either when harm comes to a few of these private junior police.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,308 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Vigilantes!
Although it would be funny to see how many of the Stalker II people speed themselves.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)It simply happens, regardless of the people that would have us believe they've never gone over the speed limit a second in their lives.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)The problem with vigilante justice is that it usually has to be resolved with more vigilante justice. I hope this wannabe swine gets hers.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)I know someone that works with someone like this. He's also a tremendous kiss ass and frequently gets everyone in trouble when he's not calling the police every hour. The police all hate him because he's a wannabe and a pest.
bighart
(1,565 posts)I also have no love for idiots that speed in residential areas. Obey the posted speed limit in residential areas please, you never know where a kid might be lurking.
Pragdem
(233 posts)Because they're too impatient to follow the law like everyone else.
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(11,660 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)If it helps police identify roads where more people are speeding then they can use their limited resources more effectively.
Since this is only information gathering, and not actual enforcement, from citizens I think it is OK.
If you read the second to last paragraph in the article it says that half the cars were not speeding and of the ones that were most were under 10 mph over the limit. Only a few were 15+ mph over.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)First, drive the opposite direction to pace out a quarter mile from where she is standing.
Turn around, do the required burn out to get the tires hot and sticky, and let her clock my quarter mile time
Rex
(65,616 posts)sadly they don't volunteer at soup kittens, instead they decide to be a real pain in the ass for their neighbors and are outraged that the rest of the world exists as it does.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)*this* is how they volunteer their time?
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)or something. Go look at a flower. There are aspects of life you cannot control. This might be one of them.
We have those radar signs that tell you if you're going above the speed limit as you pass them, and I see people slow down for those. Wouldn't that be more cost effective than buying $1500 radar guns?
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Speed all you want on the highway, but those who speed through residential areas are assholes. Puss-filled festering assholes even. Any assholery imagined on the part of this woman pales in comparison. Nothing she is doing increases the risk of a child dying because some cretin thinks the law doesn't apply to them.
Just sayin'
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)Well, I guess that helps free up the real police to taser more cripples to death. etc.