WSP trooper, pilot caught on tape

Excerpts from scanner recordings made by Bill Gillam, of Arlington, Washington, on U.S. Highway 2/97 between Cashmere and Wenatchee, where the speed limit is 60 mph:

Patrol trooper: “Yeah, it’s another officer.”

Patrol pilot in airplane: “That’s a pretty good one.”

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Trooper: “Yeah, I had, uh, 86 on that one.”

Pilot: “There’s a car doing 73, just pushed traffic out of the way so it’s got open road again inside a mile to you.”

Trooper: “That 75 ain’t ours, Chris, looks like it had a light bar on it.”

Pilot: “Did I miss a memo today?”

Trooper: “There’s a DRE conference in Chelan today that starts at noon.”

Pilot: “Ahh, OK.”

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Pilot: “I got a pair coming but I’m not super optimistic about ’em, if ya know what I mean. I’ll hold off on the speeds until you guys can check them out, just in case. It’s a white SUV, followed by a gray car.”

Trooper: “Yep, they’re going to the conference.”

Pilot: “All right.”

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Pilot: “I don’t know if it matters or not but all the ones I’m calling the speeds at have been over 80.”

Trooper: “They will make a little announcement at the conference.”

Pilot: “Yeah, that’d be good. I mean, I understand you don’t want to be late but that’s a little too much.”

Trooper: “Yeah.”

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Pilot: “A motorcycle made an unsafe lane change.”

Trooper: “Seventy-two with an unsafe lane change. He cut the black car off. So 78 was the high. You’re not going to believe where the motorcycle’s going.”

Pilot: “Let me guess – the DRE conference.”

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(At end of video) Pilot: “Sorry we couldn’t get more.”

Trooper: (laughing) “We got plenty.”

Pilot: “There will just be one more page in the reg manual.”

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