Comments on: Legislation Would Put Ban on Radar Detectors

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:26:44 +0000

Looks like another politician looking to make a name for himself at our expense. Banning radar detectors will not reduce traffic deaths by one, I suspect. He is picking on one miniscule area of transportation that will gain himself some attention and something to tell his grandkids and to hold court at parties about, but will be as useless as wings on a pig. What we don’t need are ever more and ever-increasing laws governing everything we do, everything we say, and in the future, probably everything we think.

By: Bob Dole

Bob Dole — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:06:20 +0000

The Article is still misleading as it does not specify FL Senator and FL Senate, also what good would it do to ban radar detectors when most police agencies use laser speed meters anyway. The dangerous people out on the road are still going to use radar detectors and speed reguardless of if radar detectors are banned or not. All the ban would do is put money into the government’s pocket, no one would be any safer. Its like a gated community, once your inside the gate people dont ask questions is just a false sense of security.

By: » Another stunner

» Another stunner — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:22:29 +0000

[...] proposing more big brother government intervention to take away citizens freedoms, this time to ban radar detectors in Florida? The lessons of election 2006 obviously have not sunk in [...]

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By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:18:36 +0000

I have seen the sign in person. And the many of cops in Waldo. .. We the people have rights.. If i want to detect radar i will. And some fat politician is not going to stop me.

By: David

David — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:35:53 +0000

I think that we can see the real motivations of this bill considering Oelrich represents Waldo, FL, home of one of the most infamous speedtraps in the country.

How infamous? The AAA posted a billboard outside of town warning of its speedtraps:

http://www.oaaa.org/news/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=1372

Since revenue from the tickets (just about 1 ticket PER resident) makes over 100% of the police departments budget, I think the sign is justified. In fact, if EVERYONE went the speed limit, Waldo would go broke!

By: James

James — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:35:01 +0000

IL has not banned radar detectors. And last I heard, only 2 states have them banned, Virginia and DC (OK, so 1 state and 1 not state). You were probably looking at Radar Jammer bans, which indeed, 9 states have on the books.

By: <ADMINNICENAME>

<ADMINNICENAME> — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:59:20 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out, we’ve updated/edited the article.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:53:52 +0000

Here is a link to the bill:

http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?File=sb2228.html&Directory=session/2007/Senate/bills/billtext/html&Tab=session&Submenu=1

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:49:18 +0000

Florida’s two US senators are Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson. “Senator Steve Oelrich of Gainesville, Florida” is only a Florida State senator!

http://www.flsenate.gov/Legislators/index.cfm?Members=View+Page&District_Num_Link=014&Submenu=1&Tab=legislators&chamber=Senate&CFID=29637520&CFTOKEN=80970801

So, this proposed ban is STATE LEVEL ONLY, NOT NATIONAL!