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From: victor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Victor Laking)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radar detector DETECTORS?
Message-ID: <81922B3w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 93 13:25:30 CDT
References: <1993Apr14.181738.18472@bmers95.bnr.ca>
Organization: The Inquiring Mind BBS  1 204 488-1607
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alee@bmerh794.bnr.ca (Louis Leclerc) writes:

> 
> In article <34263@oasys.dt.navy.mil> you write:
> >VA, CT, Wash DC  and I think BC Canada where I've heard they actually
> >use Radar detector detectors.
> 
> Nope, not in British Columbia.  Detectors are legal here in BC, I've even
> got one.
> 
> In Alberta and Ontario they're illegal, and detection devices are sometimes
> used.  I've heard the police in Ontario prefer a much more direct method of
> detection.  Just trigger the radar gun, watch for people slamming on the
> brakes, and search the car.
> 
> 
> David Lee
> leex@sfu.ca
> 


They are illegal here in Manitoba as well though I don't know what 
methods are used to detect them.

It has always amazed me with the way the laws work.  It is not illegal to 
sell them here in Manitoba, only to have them within a vehicle.  (Last I 
heard, they don't have to be installed to be illegal.)

victor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca
The Inquiring Mind BBS, Winnipeg, Manitoba  204 488-1607
