Witnessed speed camera attack... report?

[DaveCWK]

Here's a dilemma:

Imagine you were waiting in your car one evening listening to the radio when all of a sudden some chaps pull up 100m down the road in a large 4x4, force a huge lorry type tyre over a nearby GATSO, throw petrol over it and burn it to a crisp. Would you go to the police with the info of the vehicle they arrived in/decriptions of them etc?
Crime is crime, but i'm sure we all know of a nearby speed camera whose positioning just isn't cricket.

Hypothetical thread of course.

Mods - Any chance of a poll?

[Raize]

Definitely. No point in living in a police state if you don't follow the law by the letter. As soon as you break it, the benefits are all gone and you might as well move somewhere else.

[slipstream 1985]

nope, unless the camera was situated outside a school or appropriate area. Not on a countryside long straight.

[lemonslap]

First thing to go through my head would be the hymn kumbaya my lord..

[zippyprorider]

don't agree with the action but I would not report..... hate cameras lol

[KTF]

Yes.

[HaloGen8]

No.

[Scuffers]

how about a third option...

use your new found knowledge to write a 'how to' guide.

[Stuartggray]

I wouldn't report, but I'd record a movie on my phone for my private delight.

[DanielSan]

I'd buy them a fresh can of petrol to do the next one

[poing]

Gat the marshmallows out and make the most of it.

[anonymous-user]

No, more important things to worry about and you would be under no obligation to report it. Not all laws and police actions are in the benefit of the general public

[12v3pot]

Hmmm... imagine it's now 3 months later and you did do nothing. One day Plod comes knocking at your door, because they've just been through enough CCTV footage to work out that your car happened to be in the vicinity at the time of the fire. And that you took a surprisingly long time to go from CCTV#1-camera-CCTV#2. Perhaps you had pulled over near the camera?

Start explaining how it wasn't you wotdunit, but you did see someone else do it.

That'll be fun.

[Alucidnation]

Let them prove it with some evidence, not that that seems to matter much these days.

[P I Staker]

No, I wouldn't...

[Kitchski]

Nope, I'm no grass.

That's my excuse. Nothing to do with my delight.

[k-ink]

OP - You clearly love the idea of living in the novel 1984.

[Vipers]

Ask yourself, these people who torch speed cameras, what else do they decide to take into their own hands, neighbour with posh cars because they feel they shouldn't have them.

Torch travellers caravans because they don't like them.

We are slowly becoming a lawless country.

[valais]

Yes.

[GoneBananas]

DaveCWK said:

Would you go to the police with the info of the vehicle they arrived in/decriptions of them etc?

What about you Dave, would you be prepared to go to court and be a witness?