[Scan-DC] Electrial/Radio Interference

[b_thom at juno.com]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:28:04 -0500 Bruce Harper <bharper at vt.edu> writes:
> I'm putting in a late night here at work and just heard a VSP trooper 
> in the Salem division issue a query over the radio:
> 
> "Could someone tell me if there is some sort of radio or electrical 
> interference tonight, because of the way the planets are lined up? I 
> have a subject here with a burned out headlight and that is what he 
> is blaming it on."
> 
> Pretty creative excuse to avoid a ticket . . .
> 
> Bruce in Blacksburg

Mars and the moon are both nearly full. Jupiter is in opposition, just
about, as it is visible just before sunrise.