Unfair for Sure

Monday, Monday.


OK, I mentioned on my May 29th post I was going to check on a radar jammer because the Highway Patrol has a vendetta against me.

Well, take a look at what I found out.

IT'S A FELONY!

FCC Ban
Stiff Penalties for Radar Jammers Users

Banned in 1997
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned the sale and use of radar jammers in December of 1997.

At the time an FCC spokesman said "the action sends a clear message to all manufacturers that the FCC will strictly enforce its rules to prevent harmful interference to police radar.

If You Are Caught - It's Gonna Cost Ya!
This law covers both active and passive radar jammers.

If the FCC finds that you willfully and repeatedly interfere with radio signals by using a radar jammer, you could pay as much as $11,000 for each violation (up to a total of $75,000) and/or you could be sent to jail.

How unfair is that??

The FCC should worry more about what people hear on radio stations. Howard Stern anyone?

Besides, a radar jammer just levels the playing field, so what business is it of the FCC if the cop actually has to catch me speeding the old fashioned way by following me to check my speed?

Geezzzzzzzz the cops track you with an airplane, they say they paced you from 5 miles back, they say they clocked the car in front of you so since you were behind it you must have been speeding. And in addition to regular radar now they use pop radar to mess up my radar detector so I am to slow to react.

That's not fair!!

The other reason we, the discriminating drivers, ought to be allowed to block radar is a simple health issue. Who knows what all those blasts of radar from cop cars will do to our health?

I do know that radar definitely causes mood swings in my wife because after a hit by the radar gun and the ensuing ticket I get, my wife's mood changes drastically.

She goes from sweet and happy to, well, let's just say, not so happy!

They call it "rules to prevent harmful interference to police radar."

Why is me blocking radar harmful to the cops?

It could be a problem I guess if they don't fill their quota, otherwise no harm, no foul!!


OK enough on that.

Boy I had a long weekend programing my office phone to accept calls.

Rather than have people offended by push 1 for English and 2 for Spanish and in order to be fair to all immigrants, I added push 1-120 for other languages of the world.

A daunting task for sure. Man do you remember when English was the language spoken in the United States?

OK, start of another week so you come back tomorrow, you hear!!