Rear facing lights for tailgater's?

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I am allmost afraid to mention this because some of you might try it, but a 17 or 18 years of age and having more P&R than judgment, I mounted a magneto from a model T ford in my car and ran the outlet wire to a spark plug mounted right at the end of the exhaust pipe. I would (with appropriate audience) let off of the throttle and hit the switch to the magneto. The unburned gas hitting the sparkplug would shoot flame about 6 feet, but alas, on one such occasion, a couple of state troopers were nearby and they took a real dim view of the set up-----allways wondered what they did with the magneto??

Second thought;
In 30 + years trying criminal cases, I have tried many cases where people were shot at or actually shot for what would appear the be a whole lot less provacation than the bright light to the rear you guys are talking about. Your idea could very well make your family real unhappy as they stand around your grave, saying why would someone shoot him just over some lights.
A real example?
Local MD. had a real bad day at the office, having some problems with his wife. Some knuckle head in turning around in the Doc's private road ran over a no trespassing sign. Doesn't sound like much? The Dr. stepped out his front door and put three 357 rounds into the back of the pickup and there were three kids in the truck.
You never know when the guy behind you is just ready to go over the edge and he happens to have his shot gun in the car. I have delt with many guys for whom those lights would spell "TARGET".
Good luck

Vaughn

 

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Guys, this is all funny, but listen to Vaughn, and Rowdy Lee, it's not worth accidentally killing yourself or somebody over it...
YES, I hate tailgaters and other idiots on the road, but I don't wish them dead just because they're stupid.
Never know, "Stupid" in the Pherd behind me with the truck's brights (not HIS brights) on, might be an otherwise decent guy rushing home to the wife and kids, and he's too tired to realize he's screwing up...

 

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I agree Briar Hopper,

Rowdy is absolutely correct! BUT ya gotta love that grape soda idea! ROTFLMAO #ad
Thanks Jamie.

I hardly ever have to worry about tailgaters except when I'm on one of my bikes, and then I just get away from them completely.

If you are in an area where they CAN pass you safely, slowing down gradually to 10 or 15 under the limit usually gets rid of them.
For effect, turn on your 4-ways as you are slowing... ... sure gets their attention.

Mick2500
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One more thought and I will end the sermon;
Just turning on those lights with a vehicle behind you will (at least in most starts) be a traffic violation. , BUT
It is entirely possible you would be charged with recklessly endangering the lives of others---a felony that could result in some heavy duty time in the gray-bar hotel.
Then if someone were killed-the guy runs off the road or swerves into oncomming traffic,-- turning on those lights could easily lead to a negligent homicide conviction---goodbye momma and kids for about 5 years.

Is a little annoyance worth the risk????

Vaughn

 

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The annoying liquids to put in the spare windshield washer pump are:

1) Grape Soda

2) Red Fox Scent/Pi$$ #ad

(you can purchase this at any hunting supply store, as I did yesterday for a practical joke at work. )

 

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Wowzy-

You actually paid money for "pee", heck, I can send you all the urine you want next time you want to play a joke on someone #ad


At the old office, we had a Queen B who was mean as **** to everyone including her boss. She kept one of those space heaters under her desk and I came real close to dropping a few ounces of doe pee down in the box before she came to work. I bet that stuff would have smelled awful once the heat got to it. It would have made her smell a lot better though!

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My Brother-in-law has a hay spike in the truck bed, and the hydraulic control in the cab. He had someone get too close, and he lowered the spike. Needless to say, they backed way off. This seems to work every time...

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Rowdy,

I gotta tell ya about this one. One night some years ago I was buzzing along going north on US101 in Humboldt Co. on cruise a bit over the posted pay point, but not quite up to what I figured was the ticket point. The only other car on the road decided to tail gate me. After a couple miles he pulled up beside me and turned on his inside dome light. It was the CHP! He shook his finger at me and I saluted and slowed down. Actually, we have a cool bunch of guys on the patrol around here.

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I'm surprised no one has tried this one...

Get a container to hold small pieces of gravel. Attach a hinge to the container and the truck. Then use a spring to keep the container normally upright. Attach a cable to the container and run the cable inside the cab. Attach the cable to a lever (like a bicycle brake) and empty the bucket of gravel a little at a time. A few shots of gravel on the tailgater's windshield will have them backing way up. Of course, since the bucket would be hidden behind the rear bumper, he would never know it was intentional. I love this one!

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The red fox scent worked like a charm at work. The art of the joke is to put a few drops in an obvious place like the trash can. Then a few drops went on the carpet under his desk. Walked by later and saw the trash can sitting outside.

I laughed till my sides ached thinking about him crawling on the floor and trying to figure out how to rip up the carpet and throw it outside. Then the icing on the cake was him telling the manager over the 2-way radio that he was going home 'cause his stomach was upset! #ad
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Sorry for getting off the subject.

 

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"Buck lure" is pretty rank too, and it might be easier to find.
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Howdy,

I've been out of town on bid-ness. 1st of all, I've owned (and road raced (SCCA)) 2 motorcycles. All the cops ever wanted to do when riding on the street was harass me. I've been pulled over about 50 times, and I've only gotten about 4 tickets total in my life. You can't convince me that they're not bored, and just want to harass someone.

I think that the majority of cops were picked on and bullied as younger kids. Now that they're "all grown up" they want to get a job where they can push people around. I did say most cops, not all. Well, that's why I DON'T LIKE COPS! I had an argument with 2 cops (in 2 different cars) that pulled me over in my old Suburban. All I did was pull into a parking lot to turn around and go the other direction. So what if they were sitting in that parking lot (loitering).

So they tried to tell me, "maybe you should get a job as a cop. " I told them I couldn't afford such a big cut in pay, and that I wasn't a big enough ******* , and I had no appetite for donughts. That almost got me sent to jail, though. I did nothing but state my opinion, and they got all pissed about it. I've lost all patience with cops.

The lights are installed. Let a cop pull me over, and I'm going to put my lights back on him! He's not going to be the only one to shine a light in someone else's face. I'll tell him it was for my safety, to make sure he WAS a cop, not just some yeahwho playing a joke (even though I know the difference). And that the lights are ordinarily only used to back up to a trailer at night. He can't do anything but write me a ticket, and if he's a ******* enough to do it, I can afford thier piddly ticket!

Sorry to go off on cops guys, but I've had it up to here (I'm pointing at something high #ad
) with cops. They give all the middle class people crap, while there's other *******s out there getting away with a lot of crap when they're hassling you. I'm so pissed about the latest incident (other than what has been stated here) that if I saw a cop on fire, I wouldn't even **** on him.

If you have to hate me, so be it.

 

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Believe me, I hate you and I ain't no cop. With that kind of attitude toward law enforcement, you have bigger problems to deal with in your life. I think you need to see somebody that will let you sit on their couch for 3 hours and you can tell them about your deep dark secrets. Believe me, you do need help and NO I'm not laughing out loud.

 

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YeeeeHaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is going nowhere but down so let's see if we can turn it around.

What happened JyRo?

This was about tailgaiters and now it's "I hate cops". 95% of the time, if you (you is used in the general context) get pulled over you brought attention to yourself in some way. Loud pipes/no muffler, fast bike, or just flat out doing something stupid in front of the police... like wheelies on the freeway, crossing the median with a muddy rooster tail behind you, smoky burnouts while sitting at a redlight ect.

Myself, I like cops...

I saw a sheriff I went to school with yesterday morning... he had been up all night and was going to another sheriff's funeral. That sheriff took a shotgun blast last week and his wife and two kids are on their own.

Few months ago about 6am, I locked the keys in my truck with the engine running. The cop at Starbucks had me a free wrecker in 15 minutes and I was on the road.

A few months before that, I was clocked at 57 in a 35, I was polite and the cop said so, he have me a 45 in a 35 which was a big break. I took DD, the other choice had I been a "dick" would have been a 200. 00+ fine and a mark on my record.

Yeah, cops are cool... they even get to ride mountain bikes and carry a gun in Houston but I would not trade my job for their's... of course it's dangerous but that's probably the easy part. It's dealing with a'holes every day that has to be a drag.

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Amen 243,

I have run into some dummies but most cops I've met one way or another have been ok guys. One time I got stopped because of having tinted windows. I didn't even know that was against the law when I bought the car that way. What was stupid about the stop was that I was on a heavy traffic freeway with barely enuff room to get out of the traffic to stop. This kid (bight shiny new uniform) was standing at my door with the traffic trying to knock his pockets off telling me something. I'm almost deaf so it took some time before I understood that he wanted me to get out so we could get on the other side of the cars. I couldn't believe he stopped me for a fixit ticket in such a dangerous place. I was afraid to open the car door.

Most cops are pretty cool considering what a heavy duty job they have.

One guy stopped me in NV when I was doing 75 about 10 years ago. I had missed the turn where US50 goes to UT in Ely, NV and was kind of irked on the way back to town from the salt flats. He wrote it for 70 so I could just mail it in and not have to go to court. He told me that he wouldn't have usually written the ticket on that road with nobody on it but me, but "it IS snowing you know". He told me it was $15 and I was amazed. I asked him if they were having a going out of business sale at that price and we both laughed about it. A wave and "just send in the money" and he was gone.

 

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Jyro, when did the Sport Car Club of America start sanctioning motorcycle road racing? I roadraced with the AFM and the AMA 12 years ago. I've got over 200,000 miles riding on the street and currently ride a Nighthawk 700 and I don't ride slow. I've been pulled over a grand total of 2 times (on a bike) in all those miles and both times there was a very good reason they pulled me over (1st time was when I was a stupid 16 year old kid and got pulled over for doing 135 in a 50, 2nd time was missing turn signals). I've been pulled over 9 times in a car or truck and all but one of those times was also for good reason (and only gotten 3 tickets, btw). I find that you will usually get the same attitude from a cop that you give out. When I get pulled over I shut the vehicle off, roll down my windows, and put my hands on the steering wheel where they can see them. When they get up to the truck it's yes sir, no sir, what seems to be the problem officer, etc. Notice the difference in tact there from "I couldn't afford such a big cut in pay, and that I wasn't a big enough *******, and I had no appetite for donughts"! If I had been one of those two cops I would have found something to write you up for. There are some cases of bad cops - I ran into one in one of those 3 tickets I got, I fought it and lost because he lied in court. I do feel that cops like this are very few and far between. Try to understand the job that they are trying to do, that they are usually underpaid, etc. You say you've been pulled over about 50 times and only gotten four tickets - interesting that you see that as bad cops. Maybe you deserved 50 tickets and they were nice and only wrote you up 4 times? It could have been worse. Since you said if you saw a cop on fire you wouldn't help him out why don't you put a big sign on the window of your truck saying "I hate cops, if I'm trapped in my vehicle leave me here to die"?

-Steve St. Laurent



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Cops are just like anyone else,you get back what you put out. Jyro,if you had said those things to me you wouldn't of been standing when I left and I'm not a cop. I've been pulled over for BS like 2 mph over the speed limit many times,no ticket,but if I had bad mouthed them I'm sure it wouldn't be that way. I was once pulled over for 95 in a 30,no ticket when the cop helped me find my frayed throttle cable that was sticking. I even held my mouth when he said,"that's why I got a Powerstroke". Most cops are good dudes,treat them that way.

 

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Some corrections here. I raced the bikes with WERA. I spent the last 6 months trying to put together a car deal in the SCCA, that's why I goofed it.

And when I do get pulled over, I do all the normals as you guys have said. Like shutting it off, getting my liscence ready, and saying yessir, nossir. But once I've determined there wasn't much reason to it, that's when I start getting frustated at them.

I agree with you 243, and the rest of you guys. But, I guess the 50 (just guessing) pullovers with 4 tickets has a lot to do with my frustrations. OK, maybe I would help a cop out if he needed it. I'm just venting frustration with my exaggerations.

 

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JyRO-

I have no hard feelings towards ya... everyone has bad day's.

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