Terrorist or freedom fighter?

**mstriumph** · 9th February 2007, 14:07

sooooooooo - where are we all meeting up?

...........and who's bringing the baklavias? .....
sorry 'balaclavas' [all this talk of vehicular warfare is making me salivate

...........]

**placidfemme** · 9th February 2007, 14:33

lol and the sad part is I only know where one camera is...

**Timber020** · 9th February 2007, 18:53

A paintball gun would do a pretty good job with doing real damage.

**terbang** · 9th February 2007, 19:01

A shotgun would also do the same plus the damage.

**N4CR** · 10th February 2007, 11:50

speed cameras don't bother me cus theys imply can't read a thing (for some reaso) but i've always wanted to go smash the ****in things cus they are all about revenue. bottom of hills, **** like that. if anyone's keen gimme a pm. spb?

**idleidolidyll** · 10th February 2007, 12:23

Originally Posted by Timber020

Bugger, I pasted the wrong article, the one I thought I had copied was more about captain gatso- here it is

Saboteurs take out 700 speed cameras

They are Mad - or Motorists Against Detection - and are dedicated to destroying the tools that help to keep roads safe

They are heroes.
Speed cameras are not about safety; they are about taxation

**ManDownUnder** · 10th February 2007, 12:31

Originally Posted by Timber020

Hey what would we name a NZ superhero who destroys speedcamera's, something better than captain Gatso I hope

First name fuck, last name wit.

Let turn this on it's head - I'm new to the workforce, honest, trustworthy and hardworking. I land my first job in the camera photo processing facility...

Let's see how many of the following are true...
It's their fault... nope
Hurting the staff at the facility is going to engender public sympathy... nope
The goverment will back down... nope

Edit - I see the wrong article was posted... so I'll modify my response accordingly...
The goverment will back down... nope

**Ixion** · 10th February 2007, 12:32

We do not have enough fixed speed cameras to make such action worthwhile , especially as, unlike the UsortofK , ours do not dish out demerit points.

But if we get more, or they start demeriting, then I hope that Kiwi ingenuity and intolerance of officious bastards will take a similar tack. And I have no doubt that many of us will volunteer for the cause of freedom etc.

The tactics seem a little unnecessarily blatant though. What is wrong with a simple spray can of greenish grey paint, directed onto the camera lens. It might be some time before anyone in authority questioned why the camera produced only picture sof grey fog. Simple, unobtrusive and cheap. No bangs to alarm the OAPs, and one could always claim to be just a tagger making ones mark.

**Ixion** · 10th February 2007, 12:41

Incidentally, a thought occurs to me.

Rather than knocking out the cameras, why not knock out their cables.

The fixed cameras do not work on radar. They have two cables embedded in the roadway, and calculate the time taken to travel between them. The position of the cables is usually evident on close inspection of the road surface.

So, if some naughty person were to make an instrument like a largish chisel, and were to give it a good clout into the road over the cable, with a BLOODY HEAVY HAMMER, it would sever the cable (which cannot be much below the road surface). Camera out of action, stamp back the mark and it would be very difficult to tell. Nothing to show there is anything amiss , just no photos of speeding vehicles. Maybe everyone around there is very law abiding.

And it would take only a few moments to do, and be not at all conspicuous. You would not have to go near the actual camera.

**idleidolidyll** · 10th February 2007, 12:45

all you need to do is roughly spray the lens with clear paint or smear with vaseline (or KY Jelly if that's your thang).
Trust me, that alone will be enough to fuck up the resolution to the effect of being unable to read the reg #.

It has the added advantage of being far less visible and less likely to be spotted and rectified.

of course, for PR value, cutting the fuckin pole down and sending the photo to the media with threats to do more is gonna garner symathy and more adherents to the cause.

**McJim** · 10th February 2007, 13:47

Wot Ixion said.

the problem in NZ is very different - you don't lose your licence from cameras here - in the UK you do AND in the UK once banned you can't apply for a funny licence to get you to work and back - if you needed your licence for your livelihood then your livelyhood is f*cked - welcome to the real world.

There are very few speed cops (unless it's all changed) and the cameras are Day-glo visible by law.

We could probably take out all the cameras in NZ in one night but there wouldn't be any point - we need a programme of re-education. we need to educate our poice force that the laws they are upholding are, in most instances, poorly thought out - in fact if we all chip in a coule of bob we could probably pay the Police more than the get at the moment and buy their compliance!

There's a plan.

**Mr. Peanut** · 10th February 2007, 19:27

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb

I don't know if it would change anything, but it could work.

**Ixion** · 10th February 2007, 20:21

Uh, I'm not quite clear on this. You have identified a chemical weapon that induces homosexuality? Do you intend to trun the cops gay (they're already doing a good job without help); or the cameras gay (I didn't know they came in different sexes); or us gay (Maurice

s u and want to know if you'll be up Pitt St tonight as usual?)