The 'Bladerunners' are right

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ZedLeg

12,278 posts

109 months

Tuesday 19th December 2023
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No surprise that some here were defending the bombers, same demographic. Probably in the same facebook conspiracy groups laugh

smithyithy

7,264 posts

119 months

Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Who's defending them? laugh

Gecko1978

9,770 posts

158 months

Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Blowing stuff up in the UK given nations history of terror attacks seems dumb.

The Selfish Gene

5,519 posts

211 months

Tuesday 19th December 2023
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it's also totally the wrong tool for the job. Painting the lenses, cutting the wires, removing the cameras with a spanner all good.

Blowing them up? Sounds like Clarkson joined the bladerunners ranks!




smithyithy

7,264 posts

119 months

Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Undoubtedly stupid idea indeed, and even if you were in support of the general backlash against ULEZ, I think anyone would draw the line at the point when people start doing things like this, especially when it puts people or their property at risk, it defeats the purpose..

But like I said, there needs to be a bit of sense here - it sounds like it was a firework-esque item, rightly or wrongly people have used fireworks / bangers to wreck things like speed cameras for years, there was one along a 40mph road where I used to live, that bordered a pretty rough estate, and it was regularly destroyed, repaired, destroyed, repaired.. Think they gave up fixing it after a while..

Point being there's a big gap between dangerous but still ultimately petty vandalism, and something akin to a high profile terror attack. I dare say this falls much closer to the former, I don't think you need to be a Facebook conspiracy theorist to see that laugh

poo at Paul's

14,174 posts

176 months

Tuesday 19th December 2023
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SlimJim16v said:
First person sentenced, for painting a camera, 100 hours community service.

The vans have been suspended, either because not legal, or the security don't have the required qualifications.
Bonkers. Yesterday news had a woman on whose husband was killed by a driver pulling out into his path from a side road when he was on his motorbike. She was a teacher it seems.
She pleaded to death by careless driving and got 140 hours community service order and a 12m ban. for killing a guy, doing nothing wrong, who she could see clearly for 200 metres before her junction.

Gareth79

7,717 posts

247 months

Tuesday 19th December 2023
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The Selfish Gene said:
it's also totally the wrong tool for the job. Painting the lenses, cutting the wires, removing the cameras with a spanner all good.

Blowing them up? Sounds like Clarkson joined the bladerunners ranks!
Yeah, one of the few convictions was last week, 100 hours community service + £300 compensation after being caught red-handed spraying a camera. He seems to be self-employed so it's probably not going to be too much of a problem. I'd think if somebody is caught with a shed full of cameras that might be a problem, but random yet disruptive vandalism isn't going to be punished harshly. I can't see a conviction for this ending up with less than 5 years in prison, probably closer to 10?

Bo_apex

2,581 posts

219 months

Wednesday 20th December 2023
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Gareth79 said:
The Selfish Gene said:
it's also totally the wrong tool for the job. Painting the lenses, cutting the wires, removing the cameras with a spanner all good.

Blowing them up? Sounds like Clarkson joined the bladerunners ranks!
Yeah, one of the few convictions was last week, 100 hours community service + £300 compensation after being caught red-handed spraying a camera. He seems to be self-employed so it's probably not going to be too much of a problem. I'd think if somebody is caught with a shed full of cameras that might be a problem, but random yet disruptive vandalism isn't going to be punished harshly. I can't see a conviction for this ending up with less than 5 years in prison, probably closer to 10?
Yep UKGov would first need to build more prisons.

Blowing cameras up IRA style is OTT and a waste of gunpowder.


DaveCWK

2,005 posts

175 months

Monday 25th March
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Vanden Saab said:
LOL so I guess if TFL turn up to repair a damaged camera then even though it's obvious the bat box has just been stuck there they legally can't touch it until presumably some other qualified professional has evaluated it and confirmed no bats, which I assume takes weeks+

mwstewart

7,637 posts

189 months

Monday 25th March
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Tip of the hat to that one.

Randy Winkman

16,277 posts

190 months

Tuesday 26th March
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DaveCWK said:
Vanden Saab said:
LOL so I guess if TFL turn up to repair a damaged camera then even though it's obvious the bat box has just been stuck there they legally can't touch it until presumably some other qualified professional has evaluated it and confirmed no bats, which I assume takes weeks+
It's quite a funny idea but I'm suggesting it wont cause much hassle to take them down. Good gimmick though.

andy43

9,750 posts

255 months

Tuesday 26th March
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Randy Winkman said:
DaveCWK said:
Vanden Saab said:
LOL so I guess if TFL turn up to repair a damaged camera then even though it's obvious the bat box has just been stuck there they legally can't touch it until presumably some other qualified professional has evaluated it and confirmed no bats, which I assume takes weeks+
It's quite a funny idea but I'm suggesting it wont cause much hassle to take them down. Good gimmick though.
That’s genuinely absolute genius. We sold a house that potentially had bats. Took purchaser MONTHS and thousands in specialists and extra bat boxes before he could demolish it. No bats were found.
Well worth a call to the Bat hotline to register it for protection.
No, not that one.


Randy Winkman

16,277 posts

190 months

Tuesday 26th March
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Thing is though that it's a hoax, there are no bats and everyone knows that.

redrabbit

1,422 posts

166 months

Thursday 2nd May
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The London Mayoral election today reminded me of this thread. I guess we'll see how Londoners feel about ULEZ based on the result?

I'm not a Londoner myself and an infrequent visitor by car so I have no strong views either way, but curious what result would be interpreted as a rejection of ULEZ other than outright defeat for Khan. If its an X% drop in support despite winning, what would X be?

valiant

10,343 posts

161 months

Thursday 2nd May
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There is more to the London mayoral election than ULEZ.

Bar a few nutters who obsess over ULEZ, life moves on as normal

Khan will win but not by the colossal margin as predicted in the polls and not because of ULEZ as the last YouGov poll showed that whilst Londoners will more than likely vote for him, they are not overly impressed by him. His performance can best be described as 'meh'. Its just the opposition is simply so woeful.

Hall ran a very negative and gaff prone campaign and was constantly defending her past questionable actions and comments and had little support from Tory HQ. She majored heavily on ULEZ but hadn't realised the Londoners have higher priorities and that the most vocal voices don't even live in London - she was appealing to those who can't vote. Madness.

So don't take a reduced vote count for Khan as an anti-ULEZ backlash. Take it as he was decided to be the best of a bad bunch.


bad company

18,709 posts

267 months

Thursday 2nd May
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Khan will be re elected. It doesn’t help that the anti ULEZ vote will be split between Howard Cox and Susan Hall.

SS427 Camaro

6,504 posts

171 months

Thursday 2nd May
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God help us all if he is…..

MB140

4,094 posts

104 months

Thursday 2nd May
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SS427 Camaro said:


God help us all if he is…..
He will have his pay per mile charge instigated by the end of the year and then how long before all the other major cities see what a cash cow it is. Half the city councils in the country are staring bankruptcy in the face if the media are to believed, they will have to fill the coffers somehow.

mcdjl

5,451 posts

196 months

Thursday 2nd May
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Regional mayors: the answer to a problem no one had.
Besides which of the dozen times I've driven in the zone now, it's charged me once so the cameras are all a waste of effort anyway.