my boss at work, works for a local fire department and knows i smoke and when i want to get my weed, i want it fast so i asked him the other day if he could get me one of those infrared bars / emitters to change traffic lights, he did. i mounted it on my dash as it's a little bar / box looking thing and was changing traffic lights all day and just getting anywhere i needed quickly, a normal trip to my dealers house takes 20 minutes. with the infrared bar i was there in 5, amazing stuff well the 2nd day i had it i was cruising and everyone was stopped at a traffic light, a cop was in the left lane and i was approaching the light and the sensor went on ontop of the traffic light and me being the only one moving towards the light and suddenly it changed green for my side and everyone starts moving. the cop tears out of the left lane and instantly gets behind my car and pulls me over.. what gave it away all together is when he was behind me and i was going through another traffic light that was red and turned green, the light ontop went off and i pulled into a parking lot, cop came up to my window and told me to step out and started questioning me "where's the traffic light changer?" i told him i don't have one and he's like "what's that box on your dash?" i told him it was my cb radio he's like "cb radios aren't that small, where's the antenna for the cb radio?" and finally i just said you can take it he ended up taking it for evidence and i was cuffed and charged with impersonating an emergency vehicle and possession of unauthorized emergency equipment, i pretty much i-bonded and waved all my rights so i could get out without paying, hopefully they take it easy on me in court bye
no, all the ones in my town are super long and the green light lasts for like 10 seconds, it fucking sucks and i'm tired of it
It's good he confiscated it. That shits for emergency vehicles only, not public use. I'm a member for the fire deptartment, and I find this pretty sad to see that one of these has leaked out into the public. It's people like you that make humanity look retarded. I hope you and your boss gets fired, job well done police.
i know where your coming from, and i dont want to but i agree with you... butt fuuuuuck i needz one of those magic things
You do realize that practically everyone has access to this technology, right? The only thing funny about this is that OP had to ask his boss for something that he could've got for like $10 at Target or Wal Mart.
what happened to the good ole days of getting the satisfaction of running a red light when no one is around? ._.
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ahha, no sympathy, we all commute and I personally am happy that you are no longer potentially fucking up my drive even worse. but I do hope they don't fine the legs off ya.
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The average idiot is not going to spend all that time to put that together even if they could get the damn thing to work. It was just so easy to make or obtain it would be all over the damn place. From the looks of it I bet you it costs more than 10 bucks.