[ScanIndiana] Re: ADMIN: BS laws Carmel Police stopped ISP unmarked. (ronnielu)

[ArnalCC at aol.com]

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From: "ronnielu" <ronnielu at michianawireless.com>
Subject: Re: [ScanIndiana] ADMIN: BS laws Carmel Police stopped ISP unmarked.


WOW I bet their face was red.... Was it in the paper, or just by word of 
mouth...How Stupid can they be. I go thru Carmel at times with a caprice 
with 3 antennas on the back. Ham license plates tho.wonder if I will get 
stopped.

       Yes, it was in the (Carmel?  Indianapolis?) newspaper over 5 years 
ago.  I worked in Carmel at the RITRON two-way radio plant there up until 4 years 
ago.  I had 6 antennas on my car, not counting the dual and multiple-band 
capability of some of them.  The copy of the newspaper article ("How many 
antennas are legal in Carmel?) was so poor (looked like a 17th generation copy) and 
posted on the coffee machine where I couldn't miss it that I thought it was a 
gag on me.  Not so.

       It was a dark-tinted (blacked out) unmarked State Police car with 
three antennas on it, on duty.  When the Carmel officer had the driver roll down 
the window of the car he had just stopped, the UNIFORMED ISP Officer inside 
wanted to know why he had been stopped.  It took 3 days for the Carmel PD to 
issue an official reason for the stop:  He had "an inordinate number of antennas 
on his car."  3.  The ISP Officer sued the city of Carmel over the incident and 
settled out of court for $250,000.  The ISP Officer was non-Caucasian.  I 
happen to agree with the ISP Officer in this case.  Carmel stopped him for their 
own reasons, which took them 3 days to come with and release to the Press, and 
the antenna issue is all they could come up with?  Their non-acceptance of 
"non-Carmelites" was never made so clear and tangible as that traffic stop for 
no valid reason, and the 3 day delay it took to offer an equally non-valid 
"inordinate number of antennas" excuse for justification.  You would think in 3 
days they would have offered a smarter excuse.

       I, too, had and have Ham license plates on my car.  I'm considering 
changing them back to regular plates so I can win a $250,000 law suit, too!  But 
I don't work there any more, but I'll drive through tonight on my way to our 
CAP meeting.

Arnal Cook
N9ACC
Red Fire 24