It was fun, mobile gear was cheap and your FCC license was free, but for a stamp! Har, in a way, this is kind of a modern equivalent in its own way...
Back in the day, 70’s, when CB’s were big, a police officer I knew was working I-35 in Selma, TX, told me about another officer on the force.
Seems this other officer would use his patrol car CB to dupe speeders into speeding through Selma and he would stop them and issue a ticket.
One night my friend was riding with the officer as he was giving his “bear-free all the way into San Antonio” call on channel 9 to some guy on the CB, and the guy zoomed through and the officer stopped him.
The officer walked up to the car and with a smirk said; “Good evening, I am ‘Choirboy’*. . .let me see your license.”
The driver replied with; “Hi, I’m XXXXX with the FCC, let me see YOURS”
The police officer was let off with a warning. . .and never lived that down.
(’Choirboy’ was taken from the Joseph Wambaugh book, “The CHoirboys”).