UK to Install Security Cameras for Speed Cameras
Anyone remember the Monty Python sketch where lost explorers say "Hang on a minute, if we're lost, who's filming us?" And then they're shown greeting the camera crew. And then they repeat, "Hang on, who's filming them?" And reveal another camera crew. Well, you gotta give the Flying Circus credit for prescience. Pistonheads reports that "Angry motorists [in Lancashire] have twice torched the £24,000 speed camera, which is situated on the B5246 at Mere Bow, and last week it was pushed over. Now Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety is threatening to put up another camera to monitor the Gatso." The ire might have a little something to do with the fact that the Lancashire po-po had to rescind 545 speeding tickets for "improper calibration." Anyway, this would not be the UK's first camera-on-camera action. In fact, the most up-to-date UK speed cameras have a built-in security camera, and automatically notify the local constabulary when they're under attack. So the latest motto from The Land of Hope and Glory's glorious leaders must be "Tough on crime, tough on people inspired to commit crime by policing policies designed to raise revenues and punish otherwise law-abiding citizens, for their own good."
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the story is not about governments who would like to reduce traffic accidents by settting a lot of speeding cameras. The story is about desperate governments that can not organize profitable economy with manufacturing, thus resorting to last asylum- trimming drivers under pretense of taking care of them.
Add insult to injury: Progrssive Insurance is offering to install wireless monitoring devices into your car's OBD II port. If you fall under their criteria for "safe" driving, you will be rewarded with lower rates. One of the criteria used is excessive heavy braking. I can see it now..."car rear ends another vehicle because he was trying to avoid heavy braking..." When will this wanton rape of motorists end? I, for one, think spray painting the lens of speed cameras is a good idea.
I must not have grown up yet. I read all the stuff on that picture of the new camera, and the first thing that came to my mind was whether I could set off the vibration sensor with a sling shot from off camera.