300mph speeding ticket.. ot

[Dawai]

The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer tempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then turned off.

Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near the location.

Back at the CHP Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander The reply came back in true USMC style:

Thank you for your letter. We can now complete the file on this incident.

You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down.

Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment location.

Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position.

The pilot also suggests you cover your mouths when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high tech. Sergeant Johnson, the officer olding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose.
Also, the snap is broken on his holster.

Thank you for your concern. Semper Fi.

[Fasttrack]

That was hillarious! Thanks for sharing.

Is this a true story?

[sconisbee]

Whilst a very funny story, it is an urban legend of sorts

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

[Weston Bye]

Even if it wasn't true it made me laugh. Thank you David.

[StephenK]

Thank you David:

The way things have been going lately with fire code inspectors and Church Trustees your post gave me a chance to forget things and laugh a little.

Stephen

[rustyswarf]

Makes me think of a scene in the old B&W FBI t.v. show: The bad guys lite out with a couple of hostages in a Lear jet. The FBI has the Air Force scramble a couple of F-4 Phantoms from a nearby air base. They search East, North, West, then South with their radars. They pick up a southbound blip that will not respond to radio hails. So, they track it. Sure enough, the bad guys have landed at an abandoned air strip north of the Mexican border, intending to sneak across with their hostages. One of the Phantoms lands; the cockpit opens, a collapsable ladder bar shoots out and the pilot alights on the tarmac with a radio and a .45 auto in hand. He says, "You're under arrest!" The goons laugh and produce two submachine guns. The pilot says into his radio, "Show'em, John." The 2nd Phantom flys over real close. The pilot on the ground says,"Gentlemen, let me draw your attention to the centerline pod on that plane. It is a gatling gun that fires 6,200 rounds a minute. And the man on the trigger is my best friend. Like I said, You're under arrest!" The bad guys wisely gave up.

[Mark McGrath]

The original story was in a local newspaper in England several weeks back and the event was supposed to have happened on the M1 motorway.Limy Sami who posts here sometimes I think,emailed me the cutting at the time.
Mark.

[Norman Atkinson]

My RAF No 31Squadron claims the story with one of the Tornado bombers.
What is true is that the co-ordinates were given for 5 bombers to attack ....a British Telecom little red telephone box in the middle of a Yorkshire village. On Tuesday 6th dec 1994, the Daily Mail reported the score was the villagers furious and one dead horse!

Recently, a Tornado made its way from RAF Lossiemouth which is 'Aviemoron' country to bomb Moscow. The bomber came south, turned west just above Newcastle airport and put Moscow in its sights. The release sent only one 1000lb bomb on the target. The other had.......fallen off.
Moscow, I should carefully correct is a farm in Northumberland and the bombs were made out of concrete and painted blue!

The story continues- in Iraq. A car load of El Quaeda had done their bombing thing. All had gone well, the attack was succesfull and without casualties.

Once out of the city, they stopped for a smoke- and they did do just that.
They had been tracked by one of our Tornados- and BOOM

[Paul Alciatore]

I once got a speeding ticket for doing 75 in my VW mini bus. Passing semis and all. I was right proud of it (the VW, not the ticket).

[Norman Atkinson]

We have Ruth and her Irish contingent every two years coming to Austria.
They are part of the choir which joins my wife and co for a fund raising for the local church in the mountains. I take the collection- to hand in.
Ruth arrived in a camper van affair- and her engine was losing coolant. Could I do anything? I had a couple of screwdrivers to change funny Austrian wiring and a Mole wrench to crack nuts! After up ending myself for hours, I suddenly realised that outside bits were fine but the works were not. Finally, Ruth conceded that she driven it after purchase, to let her brother see it- and that a tree had appeared in the drive since her last visit, God Bless the Irish and I escorted the dear contralto to the local garage.
It was a time when we were doing a modest 145mph on the autobahn and Ruth started to complain that German drivers had been 'hooting at her for driving carefully at 60mph' I don't know if this is appreciated but we fell about.