Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Nowadays thinking about all this modern high-tech technology and electronic devices we have at home or at work, we can't even imagine how it used to be earlier, how lived our grand parents and great grand parents. Recently I read an article about policework at earlier times. It was very fascinating.
All of you know that nowadays police officers drive patrol cars, use radar guns, speed trailers and hand-held police radar guns in order to catch speeders. But do you know how it used to be at those times? Well, at those times, police officers didn't have cars on the first place; they didn't have all this fancy technology as they do now. So, when the first cars started appearing in towns and cities in early 1900s, police officers were still patrolling on foot. In stead of so called radar guns, police officers relied on watches and some creative thinking. By stationing officers on the corner of several city blocks, they timed how long it took a vehicle to travel around Old Town. Then, if a car or motorcycle went too fast - traveling two blocks in less than 25 seconds - they would know it. When the speeder was stopped, in most cases he was asked to drive to the nearest police station to be issued a ticket.

It's hard to imagine it now, isn't it?