Brind
29-05-2003, 09:46 PM
A group claiming to represent UK motorists is taking the law into its own hands, declaring that it has vandalised hundreds of speed cameras across the country.
Motorists Against Detection INSERT INTO post VALUES (MAD) has reportedly been smashing and setting fire to speed cameras across Britain.
The group claims to have 200 members and plans to launch further attacks across the UK. The MAD website features pictures of dozens of burnt out cameras and states that the vigilantes are considering using plastic explosives of the same type used in the Bali bombing as part of their campaign.
MAD insists that it has vandalised around five or six hundred cameras in the past two years and various methods used include spray painting, setting light to cameras, shooting at them and cutting off the camera with angle grinders.
The organisation's spokesman, who calls himself Captain Gatso, has described MAD as, 'an unheard of band of motorists and bikers fed up with the continuing proliferation of speed cameras, spec cameras, bus lanes and now congestion cameras.'
He added, 'This campaign is ongoing and is being professionally organised via the internet throughout the UK and will be orchestrated by direct action to take out speed cameras on major trunk roads and motorways due to this government's continuing war on motorists.'
Captain Gatso, who names himself after a speed camera inventor, stressed that the group was not opposed to speed cameras in urban and built-up areas, or places where children could be playing, declaring, 'We are not silly boy-racers, we're responsible, grown-up people. We're generally law-abiding citizens.'
However, police have highlighted the penalties for criminal damage, insisting that the cameras do save lives, and are calling on motorists to report any incidents of vandalism they witness.
A spokeswoman for Norfolk Police, where a spate of recent attacks have taken place, called the perpetrators 'irresponsible' and accused them of 'endangering the lives of the public.'
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:devil2: :wiggle: :devil2:
I'm all for them in proper places but the ones that aren't I'm very anti about!
Motorists Against Detection INSERT INTO post VALUES (MAD) has reportedly been smashing and setting fire to speed cameras across Britain.
The group claims to have 200 members and plans to launch further attacks across the UK. The MAD website features pictures of dozens of burnt out cameras and states that the vigilantes are considering using plastic explosives of the same type used in the Bali bombing as part of their campaign.
MAD insists that it has vandalised around five or six hundred cameras in the past two years and various methods used include spray painting, setting light to cameras, shooting at them and cutting off the camera with angle grinders.
The organisation's spokesman, who calls himself Captain Gatso, has described MAD as, 'an unheard of band of motorists and bikers fed up with the continuing proliferation of speed cameras, spec cameras, bus lanes and now congestion cameras.'
He added, 'This campaign is ongoing and is being professionally organised via the internet throughout the UK and will be orchestrated by direct action to take out speed cameras on major trunk roads and motorways due to this government's continuing war on motorists.'
Captain Gatso, who names himself after a speed camera inventor, stressed that the group was not opposed to speed cameras in urban and built-up areas, or places where children could be playing, declaring, 'We are not silly boy-racers, we're responsible, grown-up people. We're generally law-abiding citizens.'
However, police have highlighted the penalties for criminal damage, insisting that the cameras do save lives, and are calling on motorists to report any incidents of vandalism they witness.
A spokeswoman for Norfolk Police, where a spate of recent attacks have taken place, called the perpetrators 'irresponsible' and accused them of 'endangering the lives of the public.'
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:devil2: :wiggle: :devil2:
I'm all for them in proper places but the ones that aren't I'm very anti about!