[Phil@rise]

I've encountered this TWICE in Richmond. Once personally, another as passenger in my friends car.

I know radar detectors are legal in BC.

I've had my radar taken away once after getting a speeding ticket. He was pacing me from behind and did not have his radar on. I asked why, he said it was illegal, I said it wasn't in BC. The cop just ignored me and asked me again, so I just handed it to him. He then told me I can pick it up from the RCMP detachment tomorrow.

Another time I was driving through a roadblock with NO radar detector, I had an AIR FRESHNER on the dash. The cop asked me if I had anything to drink which I didn't, then told me that my radar detector was illegal.....I then told him it was an air freshner not a radar detector. He just told me to keep going.

My 3rd experience is while I was in my friends car as a passenger and he was speeding in Richmond. He got pulled over and the cop demanded he hand over his radar detector. My friend not knowing, gave the officer the detector, but I decided to question the officer, I told him that they were legal in BC and I knew a few people in the RCMP that have confirmed it. Then the cop got all pissy with me and asked me for ID which I didn't have on me cuz I wasn't driving anyways..... all in all, cop took the detector and told him to pick it up the next day from the detachment.

So my real question is, WHY do they keep taking it, telling me it's illegal, then tell me to pick it up from the front desk the next day. What is the point???