So i purchased myself a radar detector, the Passport 7500 and no longer than a day later did my dad notice I had it. He is being a **** about it saying that I don't need a radar detector if I don't speed, which is partly true, but I would overall like to know where and if there are cops around me, just for state of mind. I would understand more where he was coming from if he wasn't being such a hypocrite. He speeds constantly, usually doing 10-15 over sometimes more, and he races people on the highway like he is a young person and not a 45 year old man. Now i'm not saying that people who are 45 shouldn't race, i'm saying don't be a **** and a hypocrite by disallowing your son from knowing where the cops are. I go 5-10 mph over the speed limit sometimes, but whenever my radar detector goes off I ALWAYS slow down to exactly the speed limit or lower. Basically, he has told me that if i continue to have the radar detector i will lose my car, however, if i get a speeding ticket i will lose my car too. I need to know some good points about radar detectors since all i can think of in my defense is that i like to know where the cops are. Thanks.

 

Well, I'm not a parent. But I wish I were sometimes because my township's school system kicks *** and I'm paying for it!!! In the whole Phila. area I think only Masterman rocks with higher test scores. Anyway, your father only wants whats best for you beiieve it or not. It'd be like if he found a package of contraceptives among your things, what could he say? Smart thinking son or wtf are you doing? I don't think he's a hypocrite--he's probably concerned that you may drive fast or faster because of the radar detector. Here's a no brainer--how many parents party up and then they even start flirting with the good looking wives of their friends? But they don't encourage their kids to party or act that way. They can't.

Anyhow, imho radar detectors are more trouble than they're worth. you hear about how expensive they are and then people getting ticketed anyway and the detectors being confiscated. Just go with the flow, that's the natural defense.

 

Wow, that is by far one of the best answers and analogies concerning this topic i've ever heard.

 

This one's easy. Keep it in the glove box and only use it when dad ain't looking.

You don't have a leg to stand on regarding this unless you can convince him that it alerts you of upcoming accidents and detours.

 

Tell him that you don't need it cause you speed, it's just to get a heads up so that you don't get a ticket for 10-15 mph over the limit like he drives.

 

If he really is not hypocritical tell him that "just like you dad I sometimes inadvertently exceed the speed limit without knowing, since the Max is so smooth that at 70mph it feels like your doing 55mph, and I feel that the radar detector will provide me with that extra assurance of not getting a speeding ticket".

Tell him to put that in his pipe and smoke it.......