“Shootout” On Vulture Mine Road

Wickenburg Sun
3/28/2007
Art Pulis
Sun Business Advocate

A unique form of shootout was recently staged on Vulture Mine Road just south of the Vulture Mine. This was not a shootout with guns, but rather a shootout between law enforcement officers with radar and laser guns and drivers with radar and laser detectors and shifters.

Wickenburg businessman Roy Reyer, better known as Radar Roy, hosted a well-attended and important testing session for the radar detector industry. Various makes and models of radar detectors and laser shifting devices were matched against two trained and certified law enforcement officers who operated their equipment according to normal procedure. The volunteers in cars were running up and down the road trying either to detect the police or defeat their devices.

Included in the participants were executives form the radar and laser detection manufactures who were anxious to see how their latest technology worked in a real-world field test.

“We are here strictly as observers,” said Beltronics National Sales Manager Evertt Morss. “There are several tests around the country, but Roy runs one of the best and that’s why we come to see how our equipment performs.”

Also included among the testers were “The Guys of Lidar”, participants from around the country and Canada. In the group there were two individuals from Serbia (misprint was Croatia), and one from Scotland. According to Reyer, the interest in radar and laser devices is keen in Europe, and they are interested in testing.

“One reason our company is one of the largest retailers of radar and laser detection devices is that we understand our products and how they serve the consumer,” said Reyer. “I believe that they only way to advise the consumer is to understand how the devices work in the field under real conditions.”

“We have been here for three days running up and down the road testing in all conditions,” continued Reyer. “We use the straight stretches, but in this location we can easily run in the curves or the hills to determine sensitivity and effectiveness.”