Weird question (speed cameras)

gord · 22 Apr 2006 at 08:59

Theres no weird questions in here about speed cameras... all these questions have been asked before... i have been misled.

A weird question would be.. err..

Can you overclock a speed camera?

VeNT · 22 Apr 2006 at 09:15

wasn't there a guy arrested a few years back for spraypainting a speed camera orange all over (back when they where still gray)?

PinkPig · 22 Apr 2006 at 09:18

Why would vandalism be "tenuous"? You've damaged the speed camera to the extent that it doesn't work anymore, there isn't much of a question about it.

AJUK · 22 Apr 2006 at 09:36

Didn't people shoot the cameras when they tried to use them in America.

basmic · 22 Apr 2006 at 10:23

Just put a bin bag round it, and hold the bag in place with some gaffa tape.

Luke · 22 Apr 2006 at 10:26

I'd guess it would be "perverting the course of justice".

I'm all up for seeing them wrecked, and the notion that it creates work for the police when they are damaged is laughable! When a gatso gets broken, do you really think they send out a copper and his toolbag to sort it?

M0T · 22 Apr 2006 at 10:39

emailiscrap said:
I'd guess it would be "perverting the course of justice".

I'm all up for seeing them wrecked, and the notion that it creates work for the police when they are damaged is laughable! When a gatso gets broken, do you really think they send out a copper and his toolbag to sort it?

No but they send a copper out to try and catch who did it because they don't want a load of expensive equipment being damaged by people that can't be bothered to do the decent thing and learn the location of the things

PhilthyPhil · 22 Apr 2006 at 10:44

PinkPig said:
Why would vandalism be "tenuous"? You've damaged the speed camera to the extent that it doesn't work anymore, there isn't much of a question about it.

Because putting some tape over the lens doesn't actually damage it.

FeFiDoh · 22 Apr 2006 at 10:44

u know what makes me proud to be from swindon... Its the home of the first ever stolen speed camera!!! lol was cut down on a busy dual carriageway and found weeks later in a small wooded area and slightly torched :cool:

Luke · 22 Apr 2006 at 10:58

M0T said:
No but they send a copper out to try and catch who did it because they don't want a load of expensive equipment being damaged by people that can't be bothered to do the decent thing and learn the location of the things

Not a chance! You're suggesting that the police actively investigate crimes

M0T · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:01

emailiscrap said:
Not a chance! You're suggesting that the police actively investigate crimes

I know its all cool to hate on the police but round here they are nothing but useful.

They turned up within 5 minutes when we were being threatened by a group of chavs, they are always in force in the local towns when theres violence, They always arrive at the scene of accidents very quickly and generally I see them about a fair bit so I feel safe.

Burnsy2023 · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:03

emailiscrap said:
Not a chance! You're suggesting that the police actively investigate crimes

When they're a monetry incentive. Yes.

Burnsy

Wyrdo · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:07

Someone torched a speed camera near me (On the A66 between Stockton and Darlington) not long ago, went up rather nicely.

Bri · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:21

wyrdo said:
Someone torched a speed camera near me (On the A66 between Stockton and Darlington) not long ago, went up rather nicely.

Damn you, stealing my post

http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2005/4/15/16566.html

Luke · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:49

M0T said:
I know its all cool to hate on the police but round here they are nothing but useful.

They turned up within 5 minutes when we were being threatened by a group of chavs, they are always in force in the local towns when theres violence, They always arrive at the scene of accidents very quickly and generally I see them about a fair bit so I feel safe.

Believe it or not, I actually have a great deal of respect for the police. Just not the policy makers who make it harder for the bobbies on the beat to do their jobs. The police service in my area are nothing short of useless, but I couldn't hold it against the individual officers.