No he wasn't an idiot. There were two cars in front of us. One about
1 mile the other about 1/2 mile. Apparently the OHP trooper never
triggered the other cars and zapped him first.

These troopers are getting much more savy at catching Rd users.

Arif Khokar wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > I have a story about the V1 and the usefulness of the arrows too.
My
> > uncle drive a 98 Trans Am w 30 or something like that. All I know
is
> > the damned thing is faster than greased lightening and handles very
> > well at high speed. He usually drives about 95 mph on turnpikes and
> > interstates.
>
> <snip>
>
> > So we were cruising up the Will Rogers Turnpike (I-44) going to
Joplin
> > to look at a bike. He was running 95 to 100 mph and the V1 was dead
> > quite. The thing never falses. We came flying over this rise and
the V1
> > went full alert on Ka the arrow pointed ^.
>
> That guy was an idiot if he thought he could react fast enough to
> instant on RADAR without some traffic ahead of him. I'll drive that
> fast if there's some traffic on the road to "trigger" the cop so that
he
> can trigger my RD, but not otherwise (RD or not).