Posted: 4/3/2007 12:46:29 PM EDT
| I was in Searchlight the other day and they had a cop car set up on one side of town with a dummy in the driver seat. I had a good laugh at it because I thought they only did that in the movies. Is this regular practice there? |
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There's one in Hawthorne too. It's this absolutely archaic interceptor cruiser that looks like one of the cars from The Blues Brothers. Ain't nobody in the world going to confuse that car with the kind that roam the road nowadays. If they wanted a useful speeder deterrant, then they'd put up RF transmitters every several miles, ones that broadcast in the same range as the radar guns, so that the clowns with fuzzbusters think they're getting scanned and slow on down. |
Haha it was clean when I went through. I wanted to get out and take pictures with it but I didn't have a camera. On the way back through there was someone pulled over just outside of town so it looks like they were doing the car at both ends trick. |
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I got had by the one in Searchlight a couple of years ago on the way to Laughlin. I wasn't speeding at the time (a feat in itself for me) but I still took a double take. The next morn on the return trip, it was daylight and I realized it was a dummy. I've heard stories that Officer Mannequin from BCPD sometimes goes on a potty break and is relieved by a live officer 
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