Date:         Sat, 28 Aug 1999 06:38:05 -0400
Reply-To:     Paul Borghese <PAUL98@PRODIGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Paul Borghese <PAUL98@PRODIGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Defeating Photo Radar "tricks"
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Somehow I am not too worried about being pulled over for speeding in my
vanagon.  Maybe downhill on a windy day....

Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: EAP <Eckie1@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, August 28, 1999 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: Defeating Photo Radar "tricks"


>Okay guys,
>To avoid those photo tickets goto:
>http://www.autotags.com/index.html
>Claims to photo 'fog' the tag from cameras.
>Eck
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 1:56 AM
>Subject: Defeating Photo Radar "tricks"
>
>
>> Hi Listees:
>>
>> The secret to defeating photo radar is to illuminate the license plate so
>> brightly that the photo is overexposed.
>>
>> Somewhere, I read about someone who did this with halogen bulbs, and it
>> worked.(- perhaps the bulb was aimed away from the plate, not sure.)
>>
>> If it were me, I would connect the light circuit to a radar detector, so
>> that the lamps are triggered on when the radar detector gets a positive
>> signal.
>>
>> Thankfully, we don't have photoradar in Manitoba (yet).
>>
>> For those who have it, you may wish to experiment by taking pictures of
>your
>> van with the plates illuminated as per this post - and see if the plates
>are
>> legible in the photo.
>>
>> Marshall Ruskin
>> 84 Westy "Iron Igloo"
>> Founding Member of "Vanagon's Anonymous"