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12-09-2007, 09:12 PM
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Got a ticket last year out here in Rockford for no front plate - State Trooper saw me come up from behind him (he was stopped at a light) I pull past to a stop just past him, and he guns me with his radar gun (with me stopped) Pulls me over once the light turns and gives me a ticket - Thanks to advice recieved here, I put the plate on, took a picture and then spent half a day sitting around court 3 months later, but got the ticket thrown out. I left the plate on (not happily) because this trooper must live close to my house and I don't want to mess with it again.
12-10-2007, 02:34 PM
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I keep mine in the trunk ... I figure if I'm ever pulled over I can show em and say "but there was no place to install it in the front"
(the bracket is also hidden away in my garage so they don't know that I am fully aware of how to install it!)
12-11-2007, 08:19 AM
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This is an interesting product for a cheap body mod.
http://www.turbooptions.com/thesignl...d&productId=36
On sale until Christmas for $9.99. Available in many colors.
I'm sure that someone here will be getting it.
http://www.turbooptions.com/thesignl...d&productId=36
On sale until Christmas for $9.99. Available in many colors.
I'm sure that someone here will be getting it.
12-11-2007, 04:05 PM
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12-11-2007, 05:24 PM
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Naperville Rated Worst Speed Trap In Illinois
City Officials Dismiss Rating By National Motorists Association
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (Naperville Sun) ― Naperville is the worst "speed trap" in Illinois, according to a recent report from the National Motorists Association.
The advocacy group compiled its list of areas with the most aggressive speeding enforcement based on feedback from its members. In Illinois, Naperville ranked at the top of that list; "dishonorable mention" was given to Carol Stream, New Lennox and Peoria.
A Naperville police spokesman dismissed the ranking, saying the city uses speed radar "as nearly every law enforcement agency in the country does."
The association drew from a combination of two sources to create the list. The first source was an online poll on the NMA network of Web sites - www.motorists.org and www.speedtrap.org. The poll asked site visitors to choose the worst speed trap city in their state.
The second source was an analysis of the postings on www.speedtrap.org during the past two years.
Many of these posts are accompanied by anonymous comments from visitors to the Web site. Much of their expertise seems to stem from their own encounters with Naperville police.
Take one resident who just keeps getting busted for speeding while driving on Naper Boulevard near Stoney Brook Road.
"I have lived in this area for 20 years and gotten pinched by this trap at least five times," the poster said. "You think I would learn my lesson."
Few comments, such as the following from a poster who lives in the neighborhood surrounding Coach Street and Bailey Road, defend the policing of speeding at these sites.
"This is a speed trap but it is needed," wrote the poster. "Coach is a residential street with lots of kids walking to and from school. Speeding in this area should not be tolerated."
Founded in 1982, the National Motorists Association works to "support efforts to retain motorists' freedoms and rights."
"We work for more reasonable speed limits and fight for better driver training, fair enforcement practices and important privacy protections," the Web site says. "The NMA believes in freedom and responsibility to make choices, not in "one size fits all" legislation, ticket cameras, unfair driving taxes, revenue-motivated traffic courts and speed traps. The NMA supports traffic laws based on sound engineering principles and public consensus - not political agendas."
By Tim Waldorf / Naperville Sun
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While I believe Naperville uses strict enforcement, I wouldn't call it a speed trap. I define speed trap as a location that uses tricks with speed limits to force you into an entrapment situation. I haven't found this anywhere in Naperville or one of the others on the list Carol Stream.
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (Naperville Sun) ― Naperville is the worst "speed trap" in Illinois, according to a recent report from the National Motorists Association.
The advocacy group compiled its list of areas with the most aggressive speeding enforcement based on feedback from its members. In Illinois, Naperville ranked at the top of that list; "dishonorable mention" was given to Carol Stream, New Lennox and Peoria.
A Naperville police spokesman dismissed the ranking, saying the city uses speed radar "as nearly every law enforcement agency in the country does."
The association drew from a combination of two sources to create the list. The first source was an online poll on the NMA network of Web sites - www.motorists.org and www.speedtrap.org. The poll asked site visitors to choose the worst speed trap city in their state.
The second source was an analysis of the postings on www.speedtrap.org during the past two years.
Many of these posts are accompanied by anonymous comments from visitors to the Web site. Much of their expertise seems to stem from their own encounters with Naperville police.
Take one resident who just keeps getting busted for speeding while driving on Naper Boulevard near Stoney Brook Road.
"I have lived in this area for 20 years and gotten pinched by this trap at least five times," the poster said. "You think I would learn my lesson."
Few comments, such as the following from a poster who lives in the neighborhood surrounding Coach Street and Bailey Road, defend the policing of speeding at these sites.
"This is a speed trap but it is needed," wrote the poster. "Coach is a residential street with lots of kids walking to and from school. Speeding in this area should not be tolerated."
Founded in 1982, the National Motorists Association works to "support efforts to retain motorists' freedoms and rights."
"We work for more reasonable speed limits and fight for better driver training, fair enforcement practices and important privacy protections," the Web site says. "The NMA believes in freedom and responsibility to make choices, not in "one size fits all" legislation, ticket cameras, unfair driving taxes, revenue-motivated traffic courts and speed traps. The NMA supports traffic laws based on sound engineering principles and public consensus - not political agendas."
By Tim Waldorf / Naperville Sun
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While I believe Naperville uses strict enforcement, I wouldn't call it a speed trap. I define speed trap as a location that uses tricks with speed limits to force you into an entrapment situation. I haven't found this anywhere in Naperville or one of the others on the list Carol Stream.
12-11-2007, 05:52 PM
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12-12-2007, 12:27 AM
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Naperville definitely has some overly strict enforcement.... especially on that one stretch of Coach they mention. I live about a two or so blocks from there, and I see people pulled over all the time. granted it is a residential road, the road is about 3 or 4 lanes wide and perfectly straight for about a quarter mile... way too easy to speed there.
12-12-2007, 05:32 PM
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You all are being totally unfair. How else are they supposed to raise money to buy their fire dept Hummer and police dept Corvette? Do you think it's right they do without these necessities! 
12-12-2007, 06:45 PM
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Heh, I grew up in Naperthrill and I'm sure my tickets have funded much of the nice stuff the city has.
I speed. Yep, I surely do. Almost daily as a matter of fact. That being said, I'm fully aware that when I speed I am breaking the law. I hate getting caught, but I realize it's a pesky little side effect of my enjoyment
I think Naperville has more tickets because they have a boatload of law enforcement and not much else to do. It's not like it's a hotbed of gang shootings or murders. Mebbe the cops are just bored
Now Forest Preserve police? TOTALLY different story
I speed. Yep, I surely do. Almost daily as a matter of fact. That being said, I'm fully aware that when I speed I am breaking the law. I hate getting caught, but I realize it's a pesky little side effect of my enjoyment
I think Naperville has more tickets because they have a boatload of law enforcement and not much else to do. It's not like it's a hotbed of gang shootings or murders. Mebbe the cops are just bored
Now Forest Preserve police? TOTALLY different story
12-12-2007, 06:46 PM
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12-13-2007, 02:35 AM
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They've got a viper too... but apparently they confiscated that from some idiot who thought it would be smart to try to run from the police over a speeding ticket