Subject: [Fwd: [ZION] HUM: Radar Trap! (**1/2)] Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 07:21:46 -0700 From: Doug McGee Organization: NCI Information Systems, Inc. To: mcgee@kdcol.com -- ----------------------------------------------- Name: Doug McGee E-mail: mcgee@mail.kdcol.com WWW: http://www.kdcol.com/~mcgee/homepage.html ----------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [ZION] HUM: Radar Trap! (**1/2) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 05:11:51 -0600 From: matthewc@idir.net (Matthew Copeland) Reply-To: zion@sims.net To: aingle@falcon.cc.ukans.edu, Bob Plagens , skywookie@aol.com, ccopelan@johnco.cc.ks.us, ebublitz@idir.net (Erich Bublitz), jbacon@jcccnet.johnco.cc.ks.us, , johnmagn@falcon.cc.ukans.edu, sbrimer@falcon.cc.ukans.edu, shelby@inf.net, tyler@falcon.cc.ukans.edu, zion@sims.net >X-POP3-Rcpt: matthewc@cypress.idir.net >Return-Path: owner-humour-list@conductor.synapse.net >Received: from conductor.synapse.net (conductor.synapse.net [192.197.166.2]) by cypress.idir.net (8.7.1/8.6.12) with ESMTP id CAA30724; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:21:41 -0600 >Received: (from majordom@localhost) by conductor.synapse.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA06149 for humour-list-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 20:37:20 -0500 (EST) >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 20:37:20 -0500 (EST) >From: owner-humour-list@synapse.net >Message-Id: <199602080137.UAA06149@conductor.synapse.net> >Subject: HUM: Radar Trap! (**1/2) >Sender: owner-humour-list@synapse.net >Precedence: bulk > >This story was told to me by a friend of a friend. I don't know if it's >true or not, but makes for a great story. This (supposedly) takes place >before radar detectors were as popular as they are today. > >A police officer had a perfect hiding place for watching for speeders >along a well traveled stretch of highway. The location, at a bend in the >road, allowed him to hide his car out of sight of oncoming traffic while >setting up his radar to nab any speeders who passed by. He had used this >location successfully a number of times, especially on holidays, and >decided to use it again one Labor Day weekend. > >The officer arrived at his hiding place and set himself up, settling down >to wait for the first speeders to appear. After a half hour or so the >officer hadn't seen anybody speeding. In fact most of the cars that >passed him were travelling exactly at the speed limit, and some of the >passengers in the passing cars were even smiling and waving at him. He >couldn't believe this was happening since his hiding place was so well >concealed. > >Finally, after realizing that virtually all the passing cars knew he was >there, the officer decided that something was wrong and went investigate. >He got out of his car and walked up the road a short distance. About 100 >yards before his hiding place the officer found the problem: a 10 year >old boy was standing on the side of the road with a huge hand painted sign >which said "RADAR TRAP AHEAD". A little more investigative work led the >officer to the boys accomplice, another boy about 100 yards beyond the >radar trap with a sign reading "TIPS" and a bucket at his feet full of >change. > >------------------------ > >"Jokes are grievances." > >Marshall McLuhan (1911-80), Canadian communications theorist. Remark, June >1969, at American Booksellers Association luncheon, Washington, D.C. Quoted >in: Sun (Vancouver, 7 June 1969). > > \\|// > (ooo) THE ORACLE SERVICE HUMOR MAILING LIST >~~~~~~~~~oOOo~(_)~oOOo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >Steve Willoughby's E-mail: SUBSCRIPTION: >--------------------------- ----------------- >oracle@synapse.net To subscribe to the Oracle's >st944wk3@post.drexel.edu mail list, send a message with only > the word SUBSCRIBE in the body (not > the subject) of the message to: >WWW Site humour-list-request@lists.synapse.net >------------- >http://www.synapse.net/~oracle/Contents/HumorArch.html > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Matthew matthewc@idir.net Http://www.idir.net/~matthewc/