The Viktor Wilt Show

This week's Traffic School immediately begins with Lieutenant Crane attempting to enjoy a peaceful vacation before Viktor publicly reminds everyone that the man nearly turned himself into a cautionary tale by trying to pop a wheelie on an electric bicycle in his fifties, proving that gravity is undefeated and that midlife crises apparently come with handlebars now. While Crane nurses his wounded pride from somewhere far away, the phones erupt into absolute law-abiding bedlam as listeners unleash every bizarre legal hypothetical their sleep-deprived brains can manufacture. Crazy Carl immediately wants to know whether drawing an extra letter onto a personalized license plate with a Sharpie counts as a felony, only to discover that apparently arts and crafts become a misdemeanor the moment they're attached to a vehicle. He then spends the rest of the episode trying to find every loophole imaginable involving fake license plates, custom front plates, parked cars, and basically conducting a one-man legal stress test on Idaho traffic code while everyone involved slowly loses their sanity.

Things immediately escalate when concealed carry questions spiral into discussions about stuffing grenade launchers down your pants, hiding shotguns inside vehicles, decorating front yards with cannons, and whether a fully loaded firearm is preferable to politely asking a carjacker to wait while you chamber a round. Somehow this turns into a heartfelt conversation wishing a caller good luck with surgery before immediately returning to jokes about military weapons and Idaho being the kind of place where people casually wonder if artillery counts as lawn décor. The emotional whiplash could qualify as its own traffic violation.

Then the entire episode crashes headfirst into the internet's newest favorite conspiracy rabbit hole: Flock license plate cameras. What begins as innocent curiosity rapidly transforms into a full-scale philosophical war over privacy, surveillance, Big Brother, constitutional rights, AI, government overreach, corporate data collection, and whether every stoplight is secretly judging your driving habits. Viktor unleashes an avalanche of listener questions about whether Flock cameras are illegally harvesting everyone's information, selling Idahoans to robot overlords, violating state law, or quietly plotting humanity's digital extinction. Lieutenant Crane patiently explains how the cameras actually work, why the technology exists, how contracts are being updated, why the company—not local law enforcement—created much of the controversy, and repeatedly reminds everyone that destroying one of these cameras is still, in fact, a crime no matter how dramatic your Facebook posts become.

Naturally, this somehow evolves into discussions about police body cameras, Ring doorbells, smart TVs spying on families, Netflix profiling your viewing habits, phones tracking every step you take, Alexa eavesdropping on your conversations, fake cell towers stealing data, predictive policing straight out of science fiction, ShotSpotter microphones, and whether Idaho secretly operates Minority Report before Tom Cruise has even arrived. Viktor spends several glorious minutes essentially arguing that society willingly purchases tiny surveillance rectangles, carries them everywhere, willingly speaks to them, installs cameras all over their own homes, and then suddenly declares war because somebody installed another camera on a utility pole. It's an unexpectedly hilarious deep dive into modern paranoia wrapped inside a radio segment that's technically supposed to be about traffic laws.

The callers refuse to let the insanity stop there. One listener asks whether they can keep Idaho's classic red, white, and blue license plates forever. Another wants to know whether attaching a backwards-facing gaming chair to the trunk of a sedan counts as legal seating for passengers, creating perhaps the greatest rejected amusement park ride in automotive history. Yet another desperately seeks clarification about right-of-way at uncontrolled intersections because apparently nobody in America remembers how those work anymore, leading to universal agreement that the true danger on Idaho roads isn't traffic—it's the driver who gets there first and then politely waves everyone else through while creating complete societal collapse.

Motorcycle riders wonder where registration paperwork is supposed to go when their bikes don't actually have storage compartments. Viktor admits he's lost his driver's license somewhere inside what sounds like an archaeological excavation disguised as a house and asks whether carrying only a passport will keep him out of trouble until he finally discovers whichever mysterious dimension swallowed his wallet. Lieutenant Crane reassures him that honesty generally works better than pretending the DMV simply forgot to exist, though Viktor openly considers telling officers he "just barely lost it" indefinitely in hopes of avoiding replacement fees forever.

Throughout it all, Crazy Carl repeatedly reappears like an NPC whose dialogue tree refuses to end, Lieutenant Crane continues recovering from his self-inflicted bicycle humiliation while vacationing near the icy waters of Lake Tahoe, listeners request surveillance-themed songs because apparently subtlety died long ago, figure-eight racing gets promoted, and everyone somehow survives nearly an hour of legal hypotheticals without accidentally confessing to an actual crime. By the time the credits roll you've learned about concealed carry, motorcycle paperwork, police technology, fake license plates, digital privacy, body cameras, surveillance capitalism, four-way intersection etiquette, and why attempting wheelies after fifty should probably require a permission slip from your orthopedic surgeon. It is somehow educational, deeply informative, unexpectedly philosophical, and completely held together by duct tape, sarcasm, and the unwavering determination of Idaho callers to ask the weirdest questions legally imaginable.

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Speaker 1: right, time to see if I can successfully navigate traffic school powered by the advocates injury attorneys with Lieutenant Crane calling in from elsewhere. What up, my friend?

Speaker 2: Uh just enjoying a little vacation.

Speaker 1: Well, well deserved. And uh, I would imagine based on the last time I'm or I saw you, you're probably thoroughly enjoying yourself.

Speaker 2: Bringing up the obvious.

Speaker 1: Do you want to tell the listeners what you did?

Speaker 2: I'm Sure you will.

Speaker 1: Now, at what age are you too old to try to ride a wheelie?

Speaker 2: That's a great question. I need to figure that out.

Speaker 1: Uh, it's whatever age you are.

Speaker 2: I mean, I've I I've busted a collarbone twice, but I was four years old and eight years old. Yeah, so Oh, okay. I learned my lesson as a boy.

Speaker 2: Don't do it in your 50s, then No.

Speaker 1: I mean you I think you said you were on an electric bicycle. I think they make motorcycles that will uh like pop a wheelie, but they'll hold it in place for you. Um, so you can look skilled, but you don't really have to be.

Speaker 2: Oh, there I go. There that's what I need. I never have had skills, so that would be good.

Speaker 1: So everybody, it is time for traffic school powered by the advocates. It can be a little bit more difficult with Lieutenant Crane on the phone. Sometimes I hang up on him. Uh we'll we'll see what happens there, but we need you to call us at 208-535-1015 and join us for traffic school powered by the advocates. Ask a cop any question you want.

Uh I know where we haven't done traffic school in a couple weeks. We had people, you know, trying to call with questions I couldn't answer. Uh, but we got the cops on the line now. So 208-535-1015. All right. And we've got a caller already ready to go. You're live on the show. Keep that in mind. Who's this?

Speaker 2: Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. You know how I roll raising.

Speaker 1: Of course. Of course. What's up, didn't you? Carl. I'm down here.

Speaker 2: Did you get that coyote motor in the mail yet? No, but I do have something to tell you. I went through Reno, Nevada, and uh, they're having a car show there, thousands upon thousands of cars. All right. Yeah. Uh I I lived in Reno from uh 90 to 94, and hot August nights has taken off like you wouldn't believe. Yeah, my my boss is actually down there right now. I'm all jealous. Yeah, thousands of cars. Awesome. Yeah. No doubt. Why didn't you stay? I'm up in Lake Tahoe. Oh, okay. Oh, you're in Lake Tahoe. Like right now.

Speaker 1: Oh good for you. Oh. That's Right. Oh. So what you got for uh question for us, Carl.

Speaker 3: So I I I got a hypothetical. Uh so seven characters on a license plate. Let's say a guy has a personalized license plate, but he needs one extra letter to make it make sense. If you took a sharpie and put an extra E on the end of it, would that be a felony?

Speaker 2: For you, Carl, anything's a felony. But no, with that being said, it wouldn't be a felony, but it is a fictitious display, which is a misdemeanor. And what we're seeing with all these new plates and colors, people aren't quite getting what they're want.

Plus AI can do about anything you want, right? So people are ordering the plates they want. And even though they're the right number, they may be just a little bit different in style. And uh, yeah, illegal. It is.

Speaker 3: Yeah. So how much uh uh how much bail money do I need?

Speaker 2: That'd be $50. You'd You need at least 300 bucks.

Speaker 3: Right on. Sweet. I'm on it. Just to get out of bank right now.

Speaker 1: All right, good luck on the fundraising, Carl.

Speaker 3: Oh, dude, have fun down there, man. Oh, that's that's an awesome place to be, man. It's a little cold in that lake, though, man. Yeah. Right on. All right, you have you guys have a good weekend. We'll talk to you next week, man. You too, Carl. See you, man. All right, later. Okay, Bear.

Speaker 1: You were you were live on traffic school, powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Who's this? Martin Vick. Hey, what's up, Patrick? What's on your mind?

Speaker 4: Uh, so I want to know something about concealed carry when you have the license. What weapons qualify for that?

Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to carry uh a tracked uh uh machine like uh man, I can't even think what I was gonna be funny, and I can't even be funny,

Speaker 1: but you should see me stuff a grenade launcher down my pants. Huh?

Speaker 4: Well, I don't think you could own a 203 because that's uh that's a military weapon, and I got to play with those when I was in the army.

Speaker 1: Hey, this is Idaho. I thought everything goes in Idaho.

Speaker 4: That'd be nice. I wouldn't mind a 203.

Speaker 1: I'm putting a cannon in my front yard, Lieutenant Crane. Is that fine?

Speaker 2: Yeah, just it's a yard decoration, but please weed around it.

Speaker 1: Uh uh Hey, I don't want to it's hot out. I don't want to go out and do yard work. Ugh, yeah.

Speaker 4: And The second part is are you allowed to have it fully loaded? Magazine and one in a chamber.

Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing. If you're gonna have a gun, you might as well have it available. Uh it doesn't do anything to not have it loaded.

Speaker 1: Hold on, carjacker, I gotta load this thing.

Speaker 4: Well, so it's it's it's weird because some people don't understand. Uh if you don't have a concealed carry and you don't need one in Baudelaire County, but once you exit that area, you do need to have a concealed carry. It's just I got pulled over once by a state trooper and I had my pistol right beside my left leg. Do I have do I have to disclose that I am armed?

Speaker 2: Uh it's very wise idea, just so everybody's on the same page.

Speaker 4: So it's just a courtesy to let them know. Yep.

Speaker 2: And then if asked, the truth is always best. Say that again. And if asked on that topic, the truth is always best. Yeah. There you go, Patrick. I did it.

Speaker 4: But I didn't hear what what the other weapons were. Can you have a concealed shotgun? Can you have a concealed rifle?

Speaker 2: It's gonna be pretty hard to conceal a shotgun. And the thing is you have open can carry in Idaho anyway, so well,

Speaker 4: it's technically considered concealed when it's inside your vehicle, is it not?

Speaker 2: Well, everybody in Idaho has a uh well, I shouldn't say that because that may offend somebody, but a large percentage of our population carries weapons in their vehicles in Idaho. Okay. All right, cool. Yeah, I think the thing to know here is it's about being responsible.

Uh only need only you know using that weapon if needed and uh and uh brand using it out of an anger fit if you have a road rage incident or some other incident with somebody that you're concerned, you know, don't let things get out of hand. Yeah.

Speaker 4: All right. Well, don't have too much fun mounting, and it was good chatting with you, Vic.

Speaker 1: Hey, you too, Patrick, and I hope you have a great weekend, man.

Speaker 4: Um I'm going in for surgery on Monday.

Speaker 1: Ah, well, I hope it goes good, man. I appreciate that.

Speaker 4: All right, take care. You two man, have a good one. All right, late. Peace.

Speaker 1: 2085351015 would be the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocates' injury attorneys. Um trying to find here the post I made last week, because uh we did ask us almost anything when I was trying to get people to call and ask questions, and of course, all of them were traffic related. And I was like, hey, I am not a cop. The cop is not here. Don't ask me. And you know, people they just don't pay.

Speaker 2: They don't listen to you. No, they don't listen to you.

Speaker 1: All right, I'm uh I'm almost there. Of course, the hottest topic in town, it seems like as of late, would be these flock cameras, and I had a bunch of people asking about them. Um now I know there's a website where you can go look up like, okay, what type of police surveillance is being used in your town. Um I think are are all police I would assume using body cams in this day and age, right?

Speaker 2: Well, you know what's interesting about that is you state that, but we just barely went to body cams as the Idaho State Police about a year ago. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. So there may still be some.

We were one of the last ones to go to body cams. They're absolutely amazing. They pick up the things that our our car cameras just weren't picking up. So they're a great tool. They're not gathering information or trying to determine what your lifestyle is or your habits off of a body cam.

Speaker 1: Yeah, and um I I think it's good because then you've got the whole procedure documented. Um and it's also led to some of the most hilarious YouTube videos I've ever seen when you guys you guys pull over some real real nuts sometimes.

Speaker 2: Once in a great while, like every day.

Speaker 1: K bear, you're live on traffic school, powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Who's this? This is Deborah. Hi, Deborah. What's up?

Speaker 3: Hey, I just got a question about the license plates. Hey, Debbie.

Speaker 2: Debra, you sound way too nice. You probably you're probably calling the wrong pro you sound way too nice. You might have called the wrong program.

Speaker 1: Oh, No, I just meant I want to keep my license plates of red, white, and blue ones. I've got to renew my registration this month. Can I do that?

Speaker 2: I mean, I believe can I believe they're still available? Oh, okay, cool. Yeah, they'll just send you some new ones because they change those out every seven years.

Speaker 3: Oh, okay. I just didn't know, and I just thought I'd asked. And I enjoyed the program very, very much. And thank you so much for your service. You're awesome.

Speaker 2: Hey, thank you. And yeah, just let them know you want to continue with what you have. All right.

Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for your time. And you have a great day. Hey, thank you. And you too, Victor. Yeah.

Speaker 1: Appreciate you listening. I hope you have an awesome weekend.

Speaker 3: Oh, I'll try. I'm gonna keep in my air conditioned house.

Speaker 1: Heck yeah, that's the way to do it this weekend. That's my plan.

Speaker 3: And drink the kila margaritas. No.

Speaker 1: I I don't know if that's my tr my plan. I'm trying to be a good boy. Uh oh.

Speaker 3: Those are good on a hot dog. How boring.

Speaker 1: Okay, I'm trying to be a good boring boy. That's right. Oh, there you go.

Speaker 3: Well, you guys take care. And like I said, I really love the program. And thank you.

Speaker 1: Hey, thank you, Deborah. Have a great weekend. You too. Bye bye. All right. Bye.

Speaker 2: Victor, if you talk to me like she did nicely like that, we'd probably get along a lot better.

Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not fun. You know? I like to be, yeah, if I've got the opportunity to be snarky to the police. I mean I never thought in my lifetime I'd get that opportunity. And I get it once a week. So I'm I'm pretty lucky.

Most people don't get away with that. Uh 208-535-1015 is the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocates. If you'd like to ask Lieutenant Crane or myself any questions here. Um let's see, going back to my Facebook post here.

Jeez, it is every single question relating to these flock cameras. Um All right. Now, you know how these things work. I'm not super familiar. I did watch a 30-minute YouTube video about how you guys and your friends at Big Brother are keeping an eye on us all the time, Lieutenant Cran.

Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 1: So uh I don't know if some of the things people are hearing about these cameras are true. Um so Andy asked, well, he asked a few questions. We'll we'll start with this one. Why is law enforcement using something that is gathering and sharing Idaho resident data illegally with other companies and for use in future product development? Uh is that true?

Speaker 2: So what is there is some truth to some of this. What happens is that camera's able to do amazing things, right? The purpose of it for the cities or whoever may have them is that we put them they put them on major intersections, maybe high crime areas, different things of that, uh, in public where they're absolutely fine to have. You can anybody can record, even when uh an individual wants to record police as we've talked in the past.

They can come out and record us in the public area in. That's fine. But with that, um, this company had been using it together, some intel on things to develop and and better product or make a better product, and and that's where that's not legal, right? They're saying, no, hey, we're gonna get some guidelines and some guidance in here that you can't use that for certain things.

And so that's what they're kind of determining and working out now, and they'll get it all straightened out, but nobody's gonna be able to get your bank account number and and uh do things of that nature.

Speaker 1: So yeah, uh, we talked earlier on the show about uh, you know, things about industries people might not be aware of. And one guy from the online gambling industry chimed in was like, I have all of your personal information. Maybe you shouldn't uh online gamble.

I know where you live, got your bank account information, uh, and I'm just an employee. So yeah, people got to be very uh careful with that information. Uh somebody who used the uh Facebook name Star Spangled Eagle 6 7 uh said, Who the heck gave them permission to put these in? And why are they not being removed yet? I would assume that the uh the government gave them permission.

Speaker 2: Well, I don't think anybody, you know, there it's not against the law to put a camera up. And so you're not really have to seek information. What the what's gonna be determined is where are they gonna draw the line on what kind of information they can use or download. Now, if your family was involved in a serious crash, um and boy, what's been interesting is with everybody's ring cameras and all this on their homes, it's amazing when we have like a kidnapping or a sexual assault or burglaries in the neighborhood, how you can go and just canvas the area, get ring camera footage and start putting together a case and and solve a crime. So there's a lot of good that comes out of it. We just need to find the the you know the area that we need to be working within.

Speaker 1: Yeah. And so I had read, I think that at least the city of Idaho Falls had renegotiated some kind of contract with them or something, so they couldn't use certain information to improve the product or something like that.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and so I think it's very important to make it clear that it wasn't Idaho Falls that was asking for information or trying to build data off information. It was the company itself.

Speaker 1: So Okay, all right. Andy also wanted to know do flawed cameras violate Idaho code 49-142 as it is written, automatic or automated, sorry, license plate reader data shall not be used for any non-law enforcement purpose, and that the device in its data shall not be used for other purpose than investigation of a felony, misdemeanor crime or traffic accidents or certain or to search for missing or endangered persons. Uh so I think what he's saying there is you can't just fire it up and scroll. Is that true?

Speaker 2: Well, you need to have a purpose for what you're using it for as far as law enforcement. It doesn't change anything as far as when we do a case, we gotta have reasonable grounds, probable cause, right? Yeah. And uh so all that's the case. Now, what his question is, is it illegal for them to build data off of what they're receiving?

Because we're not trying to build that data off that camera, right? So it all goes back to Flock and their development, and I think we're getting that under control. Okay.

Speaker 1: Well, uh again, if anybody has any questions on this, because you sure sent a lot of them my way, you can call and chat with me and Lieutenant Crane about it. Like I said, it's been a hot topic in the community. Uh, we're seeing stories of people tearing these things down and things like that. Now, okay, so you so

Speaker 2: real quick on that, if you go tear it down, that's gonna be uh a charge against you for damaging property, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1: So now for them to put these on public property or city property, I would assume they have to have an agreement with you know the city or something, right? I couldn't just go put a camera up on a random pole in my neighborhood, right?

Speaker 2: No, they're making they're having a contract with somebody to make that happen. Yeah, that has access and authority to put the cameras up where they're going.

Speaker 1: Okay. Well, this uh, and again, people, 208-535-1015 is the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocates if you'd like to ask a police officer anything about the law. So we know we've got these cameras here uh that are license plate readers. Uh this you know, episode of last week tonight I watched went over some of the other police surveillance technology being used around the country.

Some of it I'd never heard of before. And so I was curious if we're using any of this kind of stuff around here. Um I asked you off air about these cell site simulators. Are you familiar with these?

Speaker 2: I don't remember you asking me about that, but no, let's educate me here just a little bit.

Speaker 1: Well, okay, let me uh do a quick Google because you know, me just spewing off uh information is not gonna be very accurate. Okay, so it's a surveillance device that mimics a cellular tower and gets nearby mobile mobile phones to connect to it instead of a real network tower, um, allowing you know, law enforcement to track locations, harvest unique uh device data, intercept call metadata, and some people were saying that you could even, you know, read like messages, tap into calls, things like that. Uh it's basically a fake radio tower uh that you know brings in all the you know the the the cell phones you

Speaker 2: know not only do we not use those, do we not have those, but it would be illegal for us to to do that and use that information.

Speaker 1: And is that just in Idaho or

Speaker 2: um I wouldn't I would think that would be illegal everywhere. I know for a fact it would never be admissible in Idaho. Okay. Um now that doesn't mean that if we have um the proper evidence um evidence that we can't go in front of a judge and get an opportunity to download a phone and and see uh what's going on there, but it has to have uh probable cause or reasonable suspicion to work on that case and figure out why, right? So we've had homicides in Idaho where we've went and asked the judge, hey, can we download their phone, see what they're looking at? And a good example of that is when we have shooters throughout the nation, they'll go download their phone, their internet content, see what they've been looking at, what they've been doing, and uh develop a case that way. So that is a possibility that you can dump phones and download information, but we're never gonna just have uh our own tower that steals it from you.

Speaker 1: Okay. Well, uh in other states, there have been some problems with this, apparently. All right, let's go to the phones. You're live on traffic school powered by the advocates' injury attorneys. Who's this? Oh, it's me again. Crazy Carl, what you want now, man?

Speaker 3: So I'm trying to work this in every angle I can. Uh so since uh you're not required to have a front license plate. Can you put like a custom license plate on the front to get away with that?

Speaker 2: Hey, so you're misleading people. Um in the state of Idaho, it depends on whether you're required to have a front license plate or not. And that depends on was the manufacturer did they manufacture that vehicle for a front license plate. And if they did, then you are required to have a front license plate.

Now to answer your question about, hey, can I just make one up if I if I want no, we're back to that fictitious display. Yep. Still illegal. What if it's parked? What if it's what? I'm sorry.

Speaker 3: What what what if it's parked?

Speaker 2: Oh, you're right. Yeah. Yeah, we don't have a sense of humor. We really don't care.

Speaker 1: And none of us don't argue.

Speaker 3: I mean I I didn't think they'd really be paying attention to how many letters are on there, but apparently they do, huh?

Speaker 1: If any of us had talent like an art talent, we wouldn't be cops. We'd be doing something else.

Speaker 3: Right on. Well, sweet. Oh, again, man, have fun, Lake. Again, that that lake is super cold. And yeah. It is uh I I I bet it's just gorgeous up there. I haven't been there in oh thirty years, but that's that's the most beautiful spot in it at it. Hands down.

Speaker 1: I have a feeling I have a feeling Lieutenant Crane's not doing much swimming today.

Speaker 2: Rub it in, baby. Yeah. Well, thanks, Carl. I really impressed the family. I really impressed the family because I was supposed to bring the boat with me, but unfortunately I can't drive the boat with one arm tied up around my neck, and soining vacation for your family.

Speaker 1: Shame. Right.

Speaker 3: Well, have a good time anyway, man.

Speaker 1: You too, Carl. See you, man.

Speaker 3: All right. Have a good one. Peace.

Speaker 1: All right, Lieutenant Crane Stewart's been asking me for a few weeks to ask you about this picture. I'm gonna have to just describe it to you. Oh, this is gonna be great. So he's he's driving down the road. You got a car parked on the side of the road, and it's a standard little sedan. It has a seat attached to the back of the vehicle.

Like imagine, I don't know, like a computer type chair, a gaming type chair or something. They have strapped it to the back of the vehicle on the trunk facing backward. I don't see a seat belt. Is a seat like that legal?

Speaker 2: It would not be.

Speaker 1: No, sir. Okay. It doesn't look like it would be. It's funny.

Speaker 2: Um that's made for your closest uh co-worker that you love so much. Yeah.

Speaker 1: Hey Jay, do you want to go for a ride? Ride in the back, dude. Got the open air seat back there. Just have a have a seat. I swear I won't just hit the gas as hard as I can. All right.

208-535-1015, the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocate's injury attorneys. Uh let's see here. What other police surveillance did I want to ask you about? Because some of this stuff was uh was pretty wild. And one of your cop buddies on the show, he he like loved all this technology.

He's like, this is great. This is like big brother on steroids. Um I don't know if that's a good selling point.

Uh you know, from the uh police organizations around the countries there, you should or around the country. Probably shouldn't use the phrase big brother as a selling point. Especially Big Brother on steroids. One of the other technologies that they talked about was uh predictive policing.

So they use a combination of you know these flock cameras, other cameras, uh microphones, and uh those cell site simulators that I mentioned, and they combine them all to try to uh basically they'll surveil, I from what I understand, you know, higher crime areas and things, and they use them to identify people who are suspected of being potential criminals in a digital form of stop and frisk. Do we have anything like that going on around here?

Speaker 2: Just right in your neighborhood. We got one right there on the corner by your house.

Speaker 1: Well, I saw that flock camera go up on the light pole right outside my front door, and I was very frustrated about it, but I haven't got out there to uh you know hook a lasso to it and wrench it down Arthur Morgan style.

Speaker 2: No, we don't have anything like that in Southeast Idaho, and I would say I would feel very comfortable saying not in Idaho.

Speaker 1: Okay, cool. I was just curious because I'd never heard of such I've seen movies like what was that movie Minority Report with with Tom Cruise, I think, or something, where they're you know, oh that person's gonna commit a crime, and they adrest arrest you in advance.

Speaker 2: So my my oldest boy that he's like that it happened on the movies, you know it's true. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: I don't you you should watch this uh this little little episode of last week tonight. It's on YouTube. I know you're just sitting there not swimming, so fire it up on your phone. Uh because again, yeah, I found it pretty interesting. And and as is the case anywhere, just because you have a few bad eggs that are using these things inappropriately, doesn't mean I would think that everybody is, you know. Exactly.

Speaker 2: And I think uh we're pretty lucky in Idaho, we got a really good law enforcement group of agencies that are trying to do the very best to give you the best community to live in.

Speaker 1: And I do think we have really excellent law enforcement around here. Like I told you the other day, I'd been watching that, you know, a lot of true crime documentaries. I don't know what's going on in Idaho and Utah, but apparently we've got uh some real uh weirdos around here in psychos. Um but you know, you we were talking about that documentary about the college murders in Moscow, and you got all these internet sleuths that are chiming in and oh, you know, these Idaho podunk cops don't know what they're doing, and you know, they start you know harassing people and accusing people and you know, trying to solve the crime themselves.

Uh, and you guys did a really great job dealing with that situation. People don't seem to understand you can't just kick in someone's door. Uh, you have to build a case.

Speaker 2: Well, and you're not gonna let out information uh when you are building that case, right? Because when you get to court, you want to be able to win the case, not just bring it to charges.

Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh you don't want to help the perp, you know, out a little bit. Like, hey, here's the guy we're keeping an eye on right now. Let's just let the world know. Right.

Speaker 2: Right. So that is a great question. You know, if you're a family member and this happened to your family, would you be interested in the plot camera helping us monitor his movement?

Speaker 1: See, and like I myself, I I go both ways on this. I do want people to be uh caught for crimes. There have been situations where I really wish there was a camera around at the time, but also at the same time, you know. I I don't like being watched all the time, but I I think where I live, I you know, if you guys are monitoring my neighborhood, you guys are bored. A bunch of old people. But you never know what those old people are up to.

Speaker 2: This is the thing. If you if you don't think you're being monitored by cameras, uh you're crazy because and it isn't law enforcement, it's everywhere, right? Oh, yeah. Uh it doesn't matter what store you go into, it doesn't matter, you know, all uh individuals' residences and and different things. The amount of cameras and surveillance is out there is crazy.

Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Well, and simply like I've talked about on air, if you were packing a cell phone with you where you go, your movements are being tracked. You know, and uh obviously our phones are listening to us in some way because you know, I said uh some kind of phrase on the show earlier, I don't even remember what it was, something I never talk about on the show immediately. My YouTube feed suddenly filling up with uh a whole bunch of that stuff. So uh if I I don't know, like I said, I've cameras all over the place.

They it's been that way for a long time. I I don't really personally like more of them, but I got a tracking device on me at all times, this phone. I take it with me everywhere I go. You know, you leave your house and you don't have it. You're like, oh, I don't have my phone.

Speaker 2: Oh when you get old and you can't find your way home, we'll be able to get you there.

Speaker 1: Well, and it you know, so the the ruckus over this, because uh one guy pointed it out to me in a way that I I could understand. He's like, hey, you have the option to leave your cell phone at home if you don't want to be tracked out in public. If there's cameras everywhere, you can't avoid them. So I'm like, I I get where you're coming from there, but even if there weren't flock cameras like you said, uh mean, I mean my house has cameras all over it. You know, I I know what's going on in my cul-de-sac. Who's that out there driving by?

Who is it? You know, and watching those documentaries I've been watching. Um, I mean, how many cases do you guys use cell phone data in your investigations on a person's location?

Speaker 2: Well, that would all depend. And I'm not gonna tell you we don't use it, but I'm will tell you this is that when we do use it, we gotta take it in front of a judge and and prove to him that we have the necessity to do that.

Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know, watching these documentaries. I mean all of the ones that have happened in recent years, it's like uh these you know horrible people, they're not only horrible, but man, are they stupid because they just bring their phone with them everywhere they go, and you know, you you can just monitor the times that they were in these areas where you know maybe a body was found or something like that. And I know that Idaho uh college murders case, cell phone data with you know, they they track the guy all over the country with the daybells, same kind of deal. Um I you know, I think it it's just kind of the state of the world nowadays, but it it just it always kind of surprises me the things that really rile people up.

You know, I you've heard me complain about uh the government taking away our you know, taking away our rights, uh you know, surveilling uh you heard me complain about the government plenty, but this one issue, wow, people have lost their minds on it, and it's like, do you know all the other ways the government's you know uh screwing you over? Come on.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You got a smart TV in your home.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, your TV, you know, the one with the remote control that you can talk into so you don't have to take the time to type out the YouTube video you want to watch. Yeah, it's it's a listening to you. And if it has a camera in it, it's probably watching you.

So you know. uh just just or you know, the Alexa devices or any of those that are just listening all the time. People willingly take on all kinds of surveillance. Um and I don't know if they just don't realize it or what.

Speaker 2: When you when you sit down and watch TV and you're watching whatever app it may be, Paramount Plus, Netflix, whatever, it's tracking what you're watching, what you like, and it'll give you as you can tell. Hey, this is a good suggestion for you based on what you've watched. You know, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1: And uh oh, I have had another good point I was gonna make, and it just went away. Callers, come on, 208-535-1015, the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocates injury attorneys. We'd like to have people on the show today. Just because Lieutenant Crane's on the phone doesn't mean you don't gotta call in. Come on, call and talk to us. So uh let's see.

Man, I wish I could remember whatever the heck I was gonna say, but oh well. Age. Age.

It does happen, happen to the best of us getting old. Oh well, um, I mean, looking at the clock, uh, you know, we could end things. So last call for traffic school powered by the advocates. Uh anything you'd like to get out to the oh, here we go. We got somebody calling. K bear, you were live on traffic school, powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Who's this?

Speaker 3: Hey, Scarling.

Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Thanks.

Speaker 3: Thanks, Carl.

Speaker 1: What you got? What you got?

Speaker 3: Uh I know it's probably not on K bear's uh playlist, but uh, could you play Rockwell's somebody's always watching me?

Speaker 1: I mean, Seems like a great follow-up, right?

Speaker 1: I I think Motionless and White just put out a cover of that, actually. Really?

Speaker 3: Oh, you should play that then. Yeah, so I want to hear it.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll play it uh after uh traffic school.

Speaker 3: Yeah, nice. Heck yeah, right on.

Speaker 1: I think that's the song. I I could be wrong. I might be thinking of something else that was from that era. But um, yeah. Right. If that was it, I'll play it. Nice.

Speaker 3: Nice. Right on. All right. Oh, enjoy the show up, man. Yeah. Oh, it works. Everybody's always watching, dude.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't that one. It was sunglasses at night. My bad. Sorry.

Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Yep, yep, yep. No doubt. Bye. Sounds like a good cover too. Yeah.

Speaker 1: Well, we'll I'll play that one. So Right on.

Speaker 3: thanks, Carl. You guys have a good one, man. You too. please.

Speaker 1: Okay, Bear, you were live on Traffic School, powered by the advocate's injury attorneys. Who's this?

Speaker 4: Oh, this is Steve O the Mud Vane guy again. How are you?

Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good, Steve. Uh, what's up?

Speaker 4: So I got a legit like I guess not a four-way stop. Uh say you're going on two rows that across, like, for example, you're on like seventh street in Wyatt. And there's no stop signs. But there's two cars coming at the same time. Um who has the right-of-way? Usually it's the person who gets there first, right? Or do you have you have to yield in a certain a certain order?

Speaker 2: Or yeah, the person that's um that gets there first, uh gets to go first, and if you're die at the same time, be courteous, but yell to the right.

Speaker 4: Okay, so are any of you guys like me just want to violently choke the person who gets our first and just sister and look at you like you're dumb for not going.

Speaker 2: Because uh just I I had that question. I just barely got like cut off like five minutes ago at that same situation, and uh I was clearly there first, but they didn't want to wait.

Speaker 1: Well, it always best to just exercise caution. There's a lot of idiots out there. Yeah. All right, dude.

Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate you guys and your time. Um once again, go Mud Vane.

Speaker 1: Go Mud Vane.

Speaker 4: Uh Peace, man. see ya.

Speaker 1: Uh before we go, Lieutenant Crane, I wanted to ask you about one more type of police surveillance, see if you guys are keeping an eye on us. Um, have you heard about this technology or a microphone system called shot spotter? No.

Okay. So uh let's see, I guess more than 200 US jurisdictions use these. Uh basically it's a microphone system that alerts police when it picks up the sound of gunfire. But um it they've had a lot of problems with these, I guess, in some of the bigger cities because like if fireworks go off or uh a nail gun or any kind of loud bang.

Um a lot of the uh police organizations, I guess they like have these as a priority um call, so you have to like kind of drop everything because it's oh shots fired and they show up and then there's like nothing going on. Do we have do we have anything like that around here? We do not. Okay. All right. So people, you know, despite all the rights that our government likes to take away from us, they're keeping us a little bit free. Uh all right, let's go to the phones here. How dare they? All right, final call. K bear, you are live on Traffic School powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Who's this? That's Patrick Go. Okay, Patrick, what up?

Speaker 4: So motorcycle laws. If you don't have anywhere to put your registration, is it required if you get pulled over to have it with you? Or to make it run it run it and off the plate.

Speaker 2: Yeah, the law reads that you have to have your registration and insurance available, right? And so it does need to be there. If it if you do not have it, we can run it and make sure it's uh valid and and uh confirm all that. And so, but a lot of guys will carry it in their wallet or or a packet or something, but yeah, uh, if you don't have it, we can figure it out. Uh when we talk about black and white uh law, yeah, it says that you have to have it on the bike.

Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, because I have a 23 Rebel and I don't have like saddlebags or anything, so I was just curious about that. Yeah.

Speaker 1: All right. Well, appreciate the call, Patrick. Yep.

Speaker 4: All right, guys. See you. Take care.

Speaker 1: Oh, I did remember one question that I had for you. Um I lost my driver's license. Don't know where it is. Tried everywhere. So I've been packing my passport around in case I need an ID. Um if you got pulled over and you don't have your physical driver's license on you, you have a passport, but you do have an active valid driver's license. Are you gonna get in trouble when you get pulled over?

Speaker 2: I think if you explain that situation, uh discretion goes a long way, right? So if you explain the officer, hey, I've lost it. Here's my passport, so you can uh positively identify me. Uh, and I'm working on getting my driver's license renewed or getting a new copy of my driver's license, you're gonna be just fine. Now, does the law read yes, you are to have your driver's license on your person while operating a motor vehicle? Absolutely. Okay.

Speaker 1: Well, um, so basically you're saying if I get pulled over because I don't want to pay the fee to replace my license, make sure to say I just barely lost it.

Speaker 2: When does it renew? I don't know.

Speaker 1: I don't have it. I want to say like I want to say like 2028, 2029. It's it was a ways out.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're you think you're gonna eventually find it.

Speaker 1: I'm hoping. My house is a mess, so I'm gonna do a little bit more cleaning before I cave. Uh, but I I don't know what they charge for a replacement. Um, nor if you can just uh order one online without actually having to go stand in the DMV, but uh I'll give it a look.

Speaker 2: Well, good luck with that, my friend.

Speaker 1: All right. Well, you guys enjoy your vacation. I hope you uh heal quickly, Lieutenant Crane. Tell the fam hello. And hold on. Had to cough. Uh yeah. Just you guys have a great time and make sure to travel safely. All right.

Speaker 2: Promise to be in next uh next Friday, and we'll have a good show.

Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna get wild next Friday. That's the uh pregame for the or is it this weekend that is the final figure eight race?

Speaker 2: Well, we do have a figure eight race on Friday the 14th in Rexburg, Idaho for the Madison County Fair. Please come out and support us in that, and then uh we'll have one more race in Rigby in September.

Speaker 1: Okay, cool. All right. And uh I believe that uh Maddie is going to be racing next week.

Speaker 2: Um He's going to be racing on the 14th. Come out and support your K-Bear employees.

Speaker 1: Heck yeah. And if you can find me uh me a car, I'll come out and tear it up. Oh, don't threaten me with a good time. All right. Well, good to hear from you, Marvin. Traffic School's powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Catch it every Friday morning at 8 45. I'll be back in a minute with some music. Traffic School is a production of River Bend Media Group. To get more info on the show or to contact us, hit up our website, Riverbend Media Group.com.