RE: Man trashes speed camera
Monday 20th September 2004
Man trashes speed camera
Speed camera in Oz smashed by angry motorist
A Perth motorist has destroyed a police speed camera worth about $100,000 (about £39,000), the latest in a string of attacks in recent years on the cameras.
Police said that the man drove past the camera about 6pm, then stopped his car, produced an iron bar and then struck the machine repeatedly, which destroyed it. Police said they did not know whether or not the camera, known in Perth as a Multanova, provoked the attack by snapping him speeding.
A witness gave police the man's car registration number, and Inspector Kosovich said he expected charges would be laid when police had identified who was responsible for the attack.
Discussion
He was going about it all wrong, what you need is: Fireworks and matches (always check with a parent to make sure matches are “safety matches”).
Step 1: Cram fireworks into any holes, crevices or in the vicinity of the “week spot” presented by the lens.
Step 2: Ignite fireworks.
Step 3: Run.
Step 4: Find another camera and repeat steps 1 through 3.
It’s very simple to do your duty as a citizen also and maintain the freedom our grandparents and great grandparents fought so hard for. “We who lie here now pass on the torch of freedom”- WW2 memorial.
Step 1: Cram fireworks into any holes, crevices or in the vicinity of the “week spot” presented by the lens.
Step 2: Ignite fireworks.
Step 3: Run.
Step 4: Find another camera and repeat steps 1 through 3.
It’s very simple to do your duty as a citizen also and maintain the freedom our grandparents and great grandparents fought so hard for. “We who lie here now pass on the torch of freedom”- WW2 memorial.
Ted..?????
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Am I the only person who thinks this is a complete waste of time? The camera will be replaced, at our (the taxpayer's) cost and the perpetrator risks a criminal record, large fine and prison if he gets caught. How does anybody benefit?
Destroying cameras is a waste of time, energy and money. What we need to destroy is the political climate that has allowed them to proliferate. We need to combat them with brains, not brawn.
Destroying cameras is a waste of time, energy and money. What we need to destroy is the political climate that has allowed them to proliferate. We need to combat them with brains, not brawn.
Mon Ami Mate said:
Am I the only person who thinks this is a complete waste of time? The camera will be replaced, at our (the taxpayer's) cost and the perpetrator risks a criminal record, large fine and prison if he gets caught. How does anybody benefit?
Destroying cameras is a waste of time, energy and money. What we need to destroy is the political climate that has allowed them to proliferate. We need to combat them with brains, not brawn.
That's all well and good, until you get flashed and want to remove the evidence ...
MonAmiMate -
Yes it probably will be replaced at taxpayers expense but if it wasnt then that taxpayers money would go toward yet another road safety..**sorry** speed camera going up elsewhere.
Waste as much as possible is what i say because whatever is left over will not go to schools or hospitals or even the plod on the street - it will go back into scameras because you have to spend money to make money, as the saying goes
Yes it probably will be replaced at taxpayers expense but if it wasnt then that taxpayers money would go toward yet another road safety..**sorry** speed camera going up elsewhere.
Waste as much as possible is what i say because whatever is left over will not go to schools or hospitals or even the plod on the street - it will go back into scameras because you have to spend money to make money, as the saying goes
Mon Ami Mate said:He probably didn't think it was a waste of time if he was one ping away from being banned. It that was the case with me, I could consider doing the same. His only problem was that someone grassed on him!
Am I the only person who thinks this is a complete waste of time? The camera will be replaced, at our (the taxpayer's) cost and the perpetrator risks a criminal record, large fine and prison if he gets caught. How does anybody benefit?
Destroying cameras is a waste of time, energy and money. What we need to destroy is the political climate that has allowed them to proliferate. We need to combat them with brains, not brawn.
I agree with Mon Ami Mate to a degree - that is, I agree that its a waste of cash, BUT it shows the powers that be that people arent quite as happy about these cameras as they protest them to be. The only problem is that it still gets classed as being perpetrated by 'fringe groups of speed crazed motorists'.
Oh, and the guy is evidently a few cans short of a six pack of XXXX if he parked up next to the damn thing - you should at least remove your plate or park elsewhere!?
Oh, and the guy is evidently a few cans short of a six pack of XXXX if he parked up next to the damn thing - you should at least remove your plate or park elsewhere!?
Well if the do mount them so low to the ground within easy reach the are sure to be attacked.
Anyway, that ugly little brute is surely a danger to road users, if it's hit by a car it'll go right though the windscreen and if a biker hit's it......
An unneccesary evil part of the modern lazy culture of beaurocrats who think that machines can do a better job that a human being. But then again having met some of the aforementioned lazy beaurocrats they wouldn't know what a human being was like, since they show no signs of being one themselves.
Anyway, that ugly little brute is surely a danger to road users, if it's hit by a car it'll go right though the windscreen and if a biker hit's it......
An unneccesary evil part of the modern lazy culture of beaurocrats who think that machines can do a better job that a human being. But then again having met some of the aforementioned lazy beaurocrats they wouldn't know what a human being was like, since they show no signs of being one themselves.
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