Two Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of Oceanside , San Diego , California ..

One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill. 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 treetops 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, it's home base location.

Back at the California Highway Patrol Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the US Marine Corps. Base Commander 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 missileaboard the fully armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipmentlocation.
Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly respondedto the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defence systembefore the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position.
The pilot suggests you cover your mouths when cussing 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 rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.'
Semper Fi

 

That's a good one!!! LOL!!!

 

haha....thats a good one jamesbo!!!! .....you just got to love the marines!!!!

 

Now that makes me smile

 

I hate to burst your bubble, but it's called an urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

 

Still makes for a good laugh. I waiting to hear another one.

 

Of course it's fake but that's why it's funny...not just the story but the folks who believe it. Imagine all them air traffic towers getting blown up

 

Maybe they were actually tracking the JATO Impala....

 

My personal favorite is the guy on the 20th floor that demonstrates to everyone how strong the windows are in the bulding.

 

Mu bro-in-law is a cop and runs radar in the parking lot at the high school when he's on the late shift.
He sets it to high sensitivity and it wakes him up if anybody gets near his cop car.

 

Does he have an alarm for when it's time for a doughnut???

 

I don't like snopes. I have run across more than one bad piece of information there that people are taking as gospel.

And I have seen this before and don't believe it actually happened, but it is still a good story.

 

His belly let's him know.

I like doing dougnuts in parking lots in the snow but the other kind.

He won't chase anybody either??
I ask him why and he says "what for?"

Just picture and even more tranquil Perry Como in a cop uniform.
I need to put on his Christmas album so I can relax and catch some zzz's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1yvS_m_7eE

 

I like jelly doughnuts... I don't like doughnuts in parking lots in the snow... I get scared! I don't like Vince's nuts either!

 

 

As Pepe Le Pew or that French guy sang "Thank heaven..for leetle girls".

I think you really like Vince though Sandy.

 

EEEWWWWWWW!!!!! Not. That just makes me laugh!!!!! Go take a look at the Dream Car Garage thread..... Allan R is curious!

 

Even if the story is fake, it's pretty good. I wish we could have equipment when we drive down the road that would shut off any "hostile" radar as well.

 

HA HA I love it

 

Maurice Chevalier!!!

 

You sure are a girl Sandy.
I never taught my girls to say that but they have since they were babies, I think it's instinctive.

Maurice Chevalier, that's right. Is that the guy Steve Miller was singing about?

"Some people call me the space cowboy yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause' I speak of the pompitous of love"

I've always wondered....

Pompitous
word invented and made famous by Steve Miller in song "The Joker" also misnomered as "Space Cowboy" that means - splendor, magnificence, suave pageantry.


Just like Vince Sandy.

 

Yeah.... Sorry, but I am a girl!! LOL! Also.....

"I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner
Play my music in the sun....
I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker
Get my lovin on the run...."

Pompitous - you quoted that just like a Google surfer!! MSN version:

'Pompitious' is not a word. Neither is it a neologism from what I ... The word "Pompatus" does exist in the Oxford English Dictionary, and it means "to act with pomp and splendor."

I don't think Vince fits in to the catagory!!! Allan R will correct us... I have faith! LOL!!!!

 

I don't so searches, it's all in my head.

"Steve Miller borrowed the lyric from an old R&B song called The Letter sung by a group called The Medallions, written by band front-man Vernon Green. An actor by the name of Jon Cryer was giving a TV interview and mentioned the link along with Green's name. Upon seeing the interview, Green, who had never even heard Miller's The Joker, telephoned Cryer to give an explanation. Apparently "pompitous" should really be "puppetutes," a term Green, who was 14, alone, and living on the streets at the time he penned the lyric, invented to describe the imaginary secret paper-doll fantasy woman of his dreams [thus puppet]. Green's The Letter was a song about his perfect woman, his "puppetutes of love." In the end, Miller used a word he himself had misunderstood."



Neologism??

 

Something's in your head, alright!!! You are just so full of ....... knowledge!!!