Now there's a challenge....indestructable...
02 September 2007, 12:25 AM
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Now there's a challenge....indestructable...
...speed cameras CLICKY
As Americans are well aware, angry drivers are a dedicated, relentless, and unpredictable bunch. Angry drivers in Britain, fed up with the scourge of Gatso speed cameras, have destroyed them in all manner of ways. How are the authorities (or rather, capitalism) fighting back? A Dutch company has created a camera it wants to sell in Britain that could actually survive a day on the corner of a Baghdad street, let alone whatever purturbed British motorists can throw at it.
The camera is 13-feet tall, sits on a steel base placed in the ground, has cameras hidden behind strengthened glass, and has a fire-resistant body. It can monitor four lanes of traffic moving in both directions and doesn't use flashes so you don't know when you've been caught. And due to new regulations, it can be painted to blend in with its surroundings. Not only is it practically indestructible, but if it senses a threat via onboard smoke and vibration detectors, it will alert the nearest police station and upload all of its data to a central database so that no scofflaw gets away. Pending Home Office approval in England, it will be one giant leap for law enforcement, and one step closer to Robocop. We can think of only one achilles heel for this indestructible speed camera... a setp ladder and some spray paint.
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£20 of my own money to the first person to film the destruction of one
As Americans are well aware, angry drivers are a dedicated, relentless, and unpredictable bunch. Angry drivers in Britain, fed up with the scourge of Gatso speed cameras, have destroyed them in all manner of ways. How are the authorities (or rather, capitalism) fighting back? A Dutch company has created a camera it wants to sell in Britain that could actually survive a day on the corner of a Baghdad street, let alone whatever purturbed British motorists can throw at it.
The camera is 13-feet tall, sits on a steel base placed in the ground, has cameras hidden behind strengthened glass, and has a fire-resistant body. It can monitor four lanes of traffic moving in both directions and doesn't use flashes so you don't know when you've been caught. And due to new regulations, it can be painted to blend in with its surroundings. Not only is it practically indestructible, but if it senses a threat via onboard smoke and vibration detectors, it will alert the nearest police station and upload all of its data to a central database so that no scofflaw gets away. Pending Home Office approval in England, it will be one giant leap for law enforcement, and one step closer to Robocop. We can think of only one achilles heel for this indestructible speed camera... a setp ladder and some spray paint.
[Source: This London]
£20 of my own money to the first person to film the destruction of one
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02 September 2007, 12:59 AM
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I do love a challange
Borrow the ol' 7.5 tonner tipper, fake plates, baraclava and my steel rope (rated at 200tons)....will bring it down in a jiffy
Borrow the ol' 7.5 tonner tipper, fake plates, baraclava and my steel rope (rated at 200tons)....will bring it down in a jiffy
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02 September 2007, 11:23 AM
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Might be "fire resistant", but I still think a tyre necklace would do the trick. Still, the evil perpetrators would have to "abscond" quicksharp with that call going to the local bobbies !
02 September 2007, 01:25 PM
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Sounds like a grown up version of a Shatterproof ruler, i.e. calling it indestructible to males sounds like challenge.
KOT's thermite sounds like the best plan.
KOT's thermite sounds like the best plan.
02 September 2007, 09:05 PM
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This quote, from the Judgement delivered by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on the appeals of Gerard O'Halloran and Idris Francis against the United Kingdom so neatly explains why the approach being taken by the Scamera Partnerships is sooooo wrong!!
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Originally Posted by Judge Pavlovschi
I understand the reasoning behind the departure from the basic principles of a fair trial in the case of speed violations: namely, that such offences represent hundreds of thousands if not millions of cases, and that the State is unable to ensure that in each of this vast number of cases all the procedural guarantees have been complied with. I repeat: I understand this line of reasoning, but I do not accept it. In my opinion, if there are so many breaches of a prohibition, it clearly means that something is wrong with the prohibition. It means that the prohibition does not reflect a pressing social need, given that so many people choose to breach it even under the threat of criminal prosecution. And if this is the case, maybe the time has come to review speed limits and to set limits that would more correctly reflect peoples' needs. We cannot force people in the twenty-first century to ride bicycles or start jogging instead of enjoying the advantages which our civilisation brings. Equally, it is difficult for me to accept the argument that hundreds of thousands of speeding motorists are wrong and only the government is right. Moreover, the government is free to breach the fundamental rights of hundreds of thousands of its citizens in the field of speed regulations. In my view, the saying “the ends justify the means” is clearly not applicable to the present situation.
My understanding is the following. I think that in such situations any Contracting State to the Convention has just two options – either to prosecute offenders in full compliance with the requirements of Article 6 or, if that is not possible owing to the huge number of offences committed by the population, to decriminalise an act which is so widely committed that it can be considered as normal rather than exceptional. In my view, there should be no “third way” in the field of criminal liability.
My understanding is the following. I think that in such situations any Contracting State to the Convention has just two options – either to prosecute offenders in full compliance with the requirements of Article 6 or, if that is not possible owing to the huge number of offences committed by the population, to decriminalise an act which is so widely committed that it can be considered as normal rather than exceptional. In my view, there should be no “third way” in the field of criminal liability.
02 September 2007, 09:14 PM
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If these things reduced street crime and violence as well I would be 100% behind them
some camouflaged money maker however will not get my backing. If I could still get hold of magnesium strips, and one of these sprung up I would be tempted to brew up some thermite
some camouflaged money maker however will not get my backing. If I could still get hold of magnesium strips, and one of these sprung up I would be tempted to brew up some thermite
02 September 2007, 09:47 PM
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Method for mischief:-
1) camera
2) mates to hold camera
3) something to hit pole with to activate its "VANDALISM MODE"
4) beer
Sit back and take pictures of the bobbies screeching in to "save" the scamera. Repeat till beer runs out, or coppers get bored and stop responding.
Then burn it
1) camera
2) mates to hold camera
3) something to hit pole with to activate its "VANDALISM MODE"
4) beer
Sit back and take pictures of the bobbies screeching in to "save" the scamera. Repeat till beer runs out, or coppers get bored and stop responding.
Then burn it
