Top this for a speeding ticket…..

Two British traffic patrol officers from north Berwick, east of Edingburgh, were involved in an unusual incident, while checking for speeding motorists on the a1 great road north.

One of the officers (who is not named) used a hand held radar device to check the speed of a vehicle approaching over the crest of a hill, and was surprised when the speed was recorded at over 300 mph. The machine then stopped working and the officers were not able to reset it. The radar had in fact locked onto a NATO tornado fighter jet over the north sea which was engaged in a low flying exercise over the borders district.

Back at police headquarters the chief constable fired of a stiff complaint against  to the RAF Liaison office.

Back came the reply in true laconic RAF style. “Thank you for your message which allows us to complete the file on the incident. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the tornado had automatically locked on to your ‘hostile radar equipment’ and sent a jamming signal back to it. Furthermore, the sidewinder air to ground missiles aboard the fully armed aircraft had also locked on to the target. Fortunately the Dutch pilot flying the tornado responded to the missile status alert intelligently and was able to override the automatic protection system befor the missile was launched

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