Boilerplate...you live near Bristol right? So I shouldn't go hauling ass down 81...
I heard of cops doing that with older cars that they were going to get rid of and decomissioned radar units since they still would set off radar detectors. Of course VA is the last state to keep radar detectors illegal. I was at a thing in high school where the head of the State Police was and someone asked him why radar detectors were illegal and his answer was that the fines from tickets helped with upkeep of the roads, and I decided I was ok with that. 1 ticket in 10 years of driving (I knew the speed limit dropped but thought it was 1/4 mile farther down the highway) isn't too bad.