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www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004052789,00.html
Vandals blow up a Gatso
A SPEED camera has been BLOWN UP on a road where four have now been destroyed.
Vandals strapped explosives to the Gatso in what is thought to be the first attack of its kind.
Army bomb experts were called after the detonation on the A37 at Emborough, Somerset.
Sir Elgar Jenkins, Bath and North East Somerset Council’s transport boss, said he understood motorists’ frustrations.
He said: “This attack is a reflection of the fact cameras are being spread all over the place.”
Other cameras on the 21-mile route from Bristol to Wells have had burning petrol-soaked tyres hung round them.
The speed traps, costing £40,000 each, are run by Avon, Somerset and Gloucestershire Safety Camera Partnership.
Its spokesman Dick Bowen said he was “disappointed” by the attack.
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Although I'd have to celebrate the removal of any camera, I am a bit reticent about using explosives!!
Vandals blow up a Gatso
A SPEED camera has been BLOWN UP on a road where four have now been destroyed.
Vandals strapped explosives to the Gatso in what is thought to be the first attack of its kind.
Army bomb experts were called after the detonation on the A37 at Emborough, Somerset.
Sir Elgar Jenkins, Bath and North East Somerset Council’s transport boss, said he understood motorists’ frustrations.
He said: “This attack is a reflection of the fact cameras are being spread all over the place.”
Other cameras on the 21-mile route from Bristol to Wells have had burning petrol-soaked tyres hung round them.
The speed traps, costing £40,000 each, are run by Avon, Somerset and Gloucestershire Safety Camera Partnership.
Its spokesman Dick Bowen said he was “disappointed” by the attack.
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Although I'd have to celebrate the removal of any camera, I am a bit reticent about using explosives!!
puggit said:
www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004052789,00.html
Vandals blow up a Gatso
The speed traps, costing £40,000 each, are run by Avon, Somerset and Gloucestershire Safety Camera Partnership.
The Gatsos used to be reported as costing £80,000 each...are the safety camera partnerships getting bulk discounts?
Well its not the first..there were reports last year and it won't be the last. I am concerned about the use of explosives though - however careful the people were. The point could have been as easily made in a far less dangerous fashion.
For example: A couple of bin liners, some duct tape and a hot air paint stripper...
For example: A couple of bin liners, some duct tape and a hot air paint stripper...
puggit said:
A SPEED camera has been BLOWN UP
what i want to know is:-
1.what did they use?,was it tnt,nitroglycerine,semtex or c4???
2.why have they only blown up one with explosives?.....come to essex lads,i can think of and direct you to at-least 5 that are not situated outside schools/on high streets or at accident blackspots in southend.
fair play to ya guys!!
>> Edited by cortinaman on Friday 6th February 00:56
Hmm... I wouldn't recommend anybody blowing up speed cameras because there is the possibility of life imprisonment.
In the news reports they mentioned it was done with "commercially available" items, so I guess they mean gunpowder (antique guns) or possibly dynamite which, at least couple of years ago, could be bought without a licence.
Gareth
In the news reports they mentioned it was done with "commercially available" items, so I guess they mean gunpowder (antique guns) or possibly dynamite which, at least couple of years ago, could be bought without a licence.
Gareth
g_attrill said:
Hmm... I wouldn't recommend anybody blowing up speed cameras because there is the possibility of life imprisonment.
In the news reports they mentioned it was done with "commercially available" items, so I guess they mean gunpowder (antique guns) or possibly dynamite which, at least couple of years ago, could be bought without a licence.
Gareth
could be anything High explosive are not that hard to make.
dynamite aint hard to make ether.
its fill the homade blasting caps safely that the hard bit
the ira only use to use semtex because they got plenty of ot laying about.
and it easy to handel and is safe enotgh to play football with.
it getting harde to bye sertain fertilizers to use as filler.
to be honist there no need to blow them up as such
a small shaped charge roung the pole would just make em fall over.
with littel danger to anyone unless the cam fell over on someones head.
cortinaman said:
A SPEED camera has been BLOWN UP
what i want to know is:-
1.what did they use?,was it tnt,nitroglycerine,semtex or c4???
2.why have they only blown up one with explosives?.....come to essex lads,i can think of and direct you to at-least 5 that are not situated outside schools/on high streets or at accident blackspots in southend.
fair play to ya guys!!
>> Edited by cortinaman on Friday 6th February 00:56
nitroglycerine is prity useless on it own and very dangerous to handel even if you know what your doing
but it fairy easy to make ,but a bit dogy doing.
there much safe things to play with.
but can be used as a base for something safer to handell
my guess is it was a ferterlizer job with a homade blasting cap
or a diy pipe bomb depends mostly on the bomber skill level in cemistry realy could be anything
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