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| Britain |
| Rage Against The Traffic Speed Camera Machine |
| 2007-12-23 |
| ..."Motorists Against Detection, the vigilante anti-speed camera group have announced a summer of MADness which will see them target for destruction all speed cameras in the UK. ItÂ’s now going to be a period of zero tolerance against all speed cameras, said their campaigns director Capt Gatso... "The group claims speed cameras are just money-making machines and they have given the authorities long enough to prove their worth. The first camera to fall in the summer campaign is in south east London on the A2 at the Sun in the Sands roundabout on-slip heading northbound towards the Blackwall Tunnel. "Capt Gatso, the group's campaigns director...said: "We have completely pulled it out of the ground, it is now lying flat. You can see some of our handiwork posted on www.speedcam.co.uk. "He added: In many areas the cameras have not saved one life - the statistics for road deaths haven't gone down. In some areas they have actually gone up - in Essex, for instance, which has a high density of cameras there are more people being killed. We are now planning to target any and all cameras until the Government sees sense and rethinks its road safety policy. Before we had speed cameras we had the safest roads in Europe - since their introduction this is no longer true." The announcement will surprise many in road safety circles since the group has publicly declared it would not attack cameras outside schools or on high streets. But Capt Gatso said: We need to focus attention on what the cameras are about. WeÂ’ve said we wouldnÂ’t attack the ones in built up and urban areas but thatÂ’s not where most of the cameras are. There are a lot of frustrated people among our members who have seen the number of cameras increase while road safety levels have fallen. Indeed, the only thing the cameras have done successfully is to reduce the number of traffic officers patrolling our roads and lose a lot of decent people their driving licences and their livelihoods. (Giving them lots of spare time to wander around with big jugs of petrol and huge flammable tires to be flung round the necks of videocams.) "MAD is the UKÂ’s only direct action anti-speed camera group and itÂ’s been going since summer 2000. In that time they have taken out just over 1,000 cameras. Their membership who are normally law-abiding people - vary in numbers but there is a hard core of around 200 people throughout the UK who use Internet chat forums, encrypted email and pay as you go phones to keep in touch and plan campaigns. "The group says it has perfected a new and quick way of destroying speed cameras which will enable them to destroy a roadside camera in just a few seconds...". |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 "I'll knox these vile machines down!" |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-12-23 20:11 |
| #6 Someone in Knoxvile, Tennessee has been shooting them. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-12-23 18:55 |
| #5 Ima seeing an outta-the-box, win-win, opportunity! duct-tape a jihadi to the camera enclosure so that when they splodeydope up...... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-12-23 18:51 |
| #4 in just a few seconds Meaning it is a process, shotgun destruction would be immediate. An angle grinder to cut wires and a dynamite stick to gut the enclosure seems to be the way it's been done, but they seem to use some flammable substance to burn 'em to a crisp. Probbly a mix of gasoline and a detergent--an impromptu napalm. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-12-23 17:41 |
| #3 A gun? Lemme see... Paint gun spitting out a quick-hardening opaque resin? |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-12-23 17:26 |
| #2 "The group says it has perfected a new and quick way of destroying speed cameras which will enable them to destroy a roadside camera in just a few seconds...". Shotgun? Any of those left over there? |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-12-23 17:06 |
| #1 Since every time I drive into the District of Columbia a ticket arrives in the mail for me a few days later, I'm asking the states of Maryland and Virginia to ticket any cars with DC plates. Fair is fair, and our states should fatten off the wallets of DC citizens, just as DC fattens off us. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-12-23 16:59 |