Police radar traps on the highway in our area have for years set up with the car parked on the shoulder or in the median parked parallel to the road, basically presenting the smallest profile while parked next to a sign or a guard rail, to further help in hiding. Over the decades I've gotten used to seeing them parked where expected and adjust speed accordingly.
This year there is a new format. grey cars parked right out in the open at right angles to the road and despite the larger and more obvious profile, I don't see them in time! (no tickets yet though, touch wood.)
This must have been the theory of dazzle camouflage on warships, put something outrageous right out in the open and the eye/brain just can't or doesn't process it... this pattern above is more effective than some; size, shape and armament all are disguised quite well.
I was once confronted with the cheapest, most undefeatable speed trap imaginable.
ReplyDeleteAn Arizona cop, parked by the side of a country road in the middle of the night,
he had a stopwatch and a timetable on a clipboard, and was timing the appearance
of the the headlights at two successive crests in the road, giving him the speed.
I was busted, but his obvious delight with his own cleverness made the encounter
quite cordial, somehow.
Yeah, you DO have to admire that ingenuity. Hope he knocked the fine down a bit :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd today I saw yoga pants in dazzle. I'll just leave that to your imagination...
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