TEXAS SPEEDING TICKET - IS THIS
GREAT?
OR WHAT!
TOP THIS ONE FOR A SPEEDING TICKET
IN KINGSVILLE , TEXAS
Two Texas Highway Patrol Officers
were conducting speeding enforcement on Highway 77, just south of Kingsville,
Texas.
One of the officers was using a
hand-held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the town of
Kingsville.
The officers were suddenly
surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour and
climbing.
The officer attempted to reset the
radar gun, but it would not reset and then it suddenly turned
off.
Just then a deafening roar over the mesquite tree tops on
Highway 77 revealed that the radar had in fact, locked on to a USMC F/A-18
Hornet which was engaged
in a low-flying exercise near
this, its Naval Air home base location in Kingsville, Texas.
Back at the Texas Highway Patrol
Headquarters in Corpus Christi the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to
the
U. S. Naval Base Commander in
Kingsville for shutting down his equipment.
The reply came back in true USMC
style:
"Thank you for your
letter…
"You may be interested to know
that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and
subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a
jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down."
"Furthermore, an air-to-ground
missile aboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your
equipment's location."
"Fortunately, the marine pilot
flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to
the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense
system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position on
the side of Highway 77, south of Kingsville."
"The pilot suggests you cover your mouths when swearing at them,
since the video systems on these jets
are very high
tech."
"Sergeant Johnson, the officer
holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left molar. It
appears the filling is loose.
Also, the snap is broken on his
holster."
USMC
