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Originally posted by rage2
AFAIK, they've stopped issuing tickets this way for several years now because it's so easy to contest in court that this method is inaccurate. Being off by 0.1 second with the stopwatch on the plane means they're off by about 5mph if I remember right. I contested this in Red Deer court before, it's fun being your own lawyer. What's funny is the cop even had a certificate for "stopwatch training" to prove that he was certified in using a stopwatch, so he's gotta be accurate! :rofl:
The way they did it was a plane flew above ground with a guy and a stopwatch timed your average speed by seeing how long it takes to go past 2 yellow lines. They then relay back to the ground car where you are and the cop just jumps out and pulls you over. When I got pulled over, I almost nailed the cop cuz he jumped out so late, and I was going 140.
Actually I got one from a chopper about 5km inside the Banff toll gates two summers ago. I think it was part of an RCMP training class because they had probably 30 officers (all very young looking) handing out tickets like they were going out of style! I thought about contesting it, but taking a day off to drive up to Banff and try to contest it didn't quite make sense for me at the time. Maybe I should have!