Dragaera

the pitfalls of judgemental law enforcement

Thu Jan 8 18:20:11 PST 2004

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:47:02PM -0800,
lazarus (lazarus33pjf at cox.net) said:
> Embarrassing admission:  When I was a young child, I thought those
> signs that said, "Speed is radar controlled" meant there were huge
> radar towers that literally kept the cars from exceeding the speed
> limit.
> 
> I remember being so convinced that was true....

Signs that read "Speed limits enforced by aircraft" bring to my mind
the image of pilots in airplanes searching for speeding vehicles and
firing air-to-ground missiles at any such miscreants that they find.

-- 
Jim Toth
jtoth at megrez.org