A speeding ticket only the USMC could get
Top this for a speeding ticket
Two California Highway Patrol Officers were parked in their cruiser conducting traffic enforcement speed measurement on I-15, just north of the Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar. Officer Smith was using a hand-held radar device 
(similar to the one seen here) to check the speed of vehicles approaching their position and Officer Jones was thinking about lunch.
Officer Smith suddenly does a double take when his radar gun alarm registers an unbelievable speed of 300 MPH - coming from an approaching vehicle! Thinking it is an error he attempts to re-set the gun but before he can gripe to Officer Jones about the department's cheap equipment a deafening roar overhead of 8.5 magnatude envelops their cruiser and commences to give them both a good shaking. The radar gun had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near their location. Talk about somone hard to catch!
Later, after Officers Smith and Jones have changed their skivvies back at CHP Headquarters their Patrol Captain decides to file a complaint with the USMC Base Commander. What he hoped to gain by this (uniform cleaning bill reimbursement maybe?) is not known as of this writing. But the reply to the CHP Captain is classic USMC:
Dear Captain,
Thank you for your letter. We can now complete the file on this incident as witnesses have now come forward and identified two bow-legged men leaving the scene of a CHP patrol car with four flat tires and a smashed radar gun.
You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the F/A 18 Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your officer's radar equipment and recognized it as possibly hostile in nature. The electronics in the jet's hostile identifier system (HIS) automatically sent a jamming signal back to the radar gun, disabling it.
Furthermore, as a result of an unknown radar signature (possibly hostile), an Air-to-ground SMART missile aboard the fully-armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment location.
Fortunately, the Marine Pilot in command of the aircraft recognized the situation for what it was, millions of taxpayer dollars spent on training kicked in and he was able to quickly respond to the missile system alert status, override the automated defense system before the missile could be launched and hit his afterburners to discourage further action.
The pilot would also like to pass along a few suggestions: he suggests you cover your mouths when swearing at low-flying Marine aircraft since the video systems on these jets are very high tech and can see right down to the powdered sugar on Officer Jones's tunic. Officer Smith, the cop holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.
Thank you for your patriotism,
Semper Fi
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