# Speed Traps- are they legal? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 11, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/speed-traps-are-they-legal/203429 "2009-08-11T11:59:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![Blackbelt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blackbelt/32/5998_2.png) [@Blackbelt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blackbelt)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/speed-traps-are-they-legal/203429/22 "2009-08-12T08:20:37Z")
> [@TW: 32" Westinghouse LCD TV](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tw-32-westinghouse-lcd-tv/40738/6): > > 5 is where its at… gives allocation of speedometer error. ive been pulled over for 6 over. > [@HID bulbs](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hid-bulbs/40729/45): > > sorry let me clarify. I wasnt in the parking lot. The COP was in the parking lot clocking people on the main road. I was clocked going up the hill into wexford and then the rest of the cops were sitting at the top in the fire hall lot just picking people off left and right. The cop that was clocking people was sitting at the bottom of the hill in the parking lot of an office complex during normal business hours. I thought it was illegal to do that during business hours. > > Smort- thats my first ticket since our trip to indiana… so its been a couple years i guess. Police generally obtain permission from the property owner when setting up a speed observation point. Very few business owners will deny permission. They want to stay on the good side of the local department. I have seen police sit in residential driveways to watch for people blowing through stop signs. I saw a Hampton cop ticket a couple dozen cars in a few hours in a housing plan doing that. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/speed-traps-are-they-legal/203429)._