Cameras to watch the cameras?

Burnt Gatso prompts camera escalation

Could the proliferation of cameras on our roads be about to become absurd?

The group known as Motorists Against Detection (MAD) claimed to have burnt out a speed camera on the A217 in Burgh Heath, Surrey last weekend. The group reportedly said: "We are taking no prisoners this summer as we have had enough of Joe Public having to line the pockets of people in offices."

The predictable response of the authorities has been to complain about the amount of public money being spent replacing cameras that have been trashed and saying that scameras save lives.

However Duncan Knox, head of the local speed camera partnership, also refused to rule out the possibility that the organisation would install CCTV to watch the camera sites.

Cameras to watch the cameras. And next...?