Speed camera direct action

[joust]

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Interesting the story about another speed camera being destroyed.

On Saturday I was going down the A5 and saw a speed camera that had been "cut off" at the bottom, so I decided to stop and take some pictures.

Here's the first one showing the camera "down"...


Now - before people start clapping and rejoicing, look at the next picture of where the camera is pointing at...

Notice the bloddy big camera sign, the fact that it was painted yellow, and that it is just before a major junction with traffic crossing over the direction of flow.

Hhere is one of the junction (with gratuitus Noble shot ) closer up


Question is - what will this do to the "cause"?

You could argue that the camera was "hidden" behind the tree and the camera sign, but 200 yards before the camera there was a sign (I couldn't stop safely to take a picture of it) that had a camera with "200 yds" underneath it - hardly hiding the camera was it.

You could argue that there wasn't a particular issue with the junction - but just after the camera on the other side there were skid marks where a car had cross the road and mounted the grass (it was flattened towards the camera - indicating the car had ground to a stop towards it)


I'm not convinced that this was a good idea. If we are to get cameras removed from inappropiate places - this sort of action where there are plenty of dangers that mean enforcement of the 50 mph limit was probably pretty sensible seems hardly sensible.

What do other's think?

For those gory detail people, the camera had been hacked off with an angle grinder

and was looking a bit battered up


Thoughts?

J