Escort 8500 did not detect a blast from Genesis VP Direction

**remy charmoz** · 04-23-2006, 05:02 PM

I just got a ticket for speeding, and asked the officer how he had caught me on radar as my Escort was on, and operating. He told me he used, and showed me, a Genesis VP directional. There was no reading on it... I checked and found out it operates on K band. Two miles down the road, another speed trap was using K band, and I caught it 1/2 mile away. Is this guy lying? How do I prove it?

**tjbender** · 04-23-2006, 11:07 PM

Calling a traffic lawyer is your best bet. Judges aren't likely to respond well to a defense of "he couldn't have been using radar, because my expensive, highend detector didn't go off!"

**LexX50** · 04-30-2006, 04:47 PM

this makes me wonder about something, where exactly are u mounting your detector----if it is overly obvious that u are running a radar do u think he saw it and decided to give u a ticket without getting a reading. And btw was he on key for how fast u were going?

**remy charmoz** · 04-30-2006, 05:10 PM

Good point, but this guy is lying through his teeth. He says I was going 62 mph, yet, I measured that he caught up with me in about 2/10th of a mile (3 Berkshires curves). Do the math... He clocks me, checks the reading, patches out, and catches me in 2/10th of a mile!,or 12 seconds flat!. What is he driving? an F15?

**Rottman** · 04-30-2006, 05:45 PM

Was he pacing you? I mean using time/distance quotient? If you made it from Point A to point B in under X you were going Y? Make sense?

**remy charmoz** · 04-30-2006, 06:52 PM

No, he was apparently stationary, using a Genesis VP Directional K band. My detector was silen, although, there was another smokey 2 miles down the road, and my Escort went ballistic on K band.
This yahoo was parked between two speed signs, no more than 200 feet away from each other. Speed went 40 - 25- 30 in the space of 200 feet, so if he clocked me at 62 in a 25, he clocked me in that 200 foot zone, and, again, caught up with me in less than 12 seconds, and I was apparently doing 62. I know I was not. I'm trying to put together a case to exonerate myself, and show the judge he is lying...

**Rottman** · 04-30-2006, 06:58 PM

Has anyone heard of this gun? You need to PM professor Jim or JTW.

**remy charmoz** · 04-30-2006, 07:02 PM

Sorry, but who are they?

The gun is described on the Internet as a basic K-band, but it can track vehicles coming and going without adjustments.

**turbotroll** · 05-02-2006, 08:37 PM

http://policevehicletech.com/gvpd.html

Tiny little thing and causing all this trouble.

I wonder if that battery pack lasts as long as the one on my cordless drill.