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Date:         Sat, 28 Aug 1999 08:04:45 -0400
Reply-To:     Jason Yasment <vanagon@NYCAP.RR.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jason Yasment <vanagon@NYCAP.RR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Defeating Photo Radar "tricks"
Comments: To: EAP <Eckie1@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
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I know in NYS it is illegal to have anything covering your plate. Even if it is a clear cover. You may not get pulled over for this, but during the Woodstock '99 time frame here in NY, the troopers were eyeing me very curiously. They usually left me alone after seeing my DOD stickers.

EAP wrote: > > 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"

-- Jason M. Yasment '84 Westfalia '98 Jetta TDI AOL IM: YasmentJM


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