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I was waiting to cross the A140 near Coddenham and notice a guy with a (what looked like a video camera) hiding behind a road sign. He was pointing the camera up the road towards a speed camera.

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Useless laws weaken necessary laws.

Death ray?

I do that now when I see somebody working on the cameras at Ings, given that CSCP do not keep any records of why or when a camera has been visited!

How was he dressed?

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Time to take responsibility for our actions.. and don't be afraid of speaking out!

Perhaps someone taking advice on here and elswhere about photographing all signs etc. to defend against a false accusation.

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Malcolm W.
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He was probably hiding to avoid being arrested for photographing the speed camera, it being a possible terrorist act.
In another even sillier thing....tesco security "staff" don't allow people to take pictures either in store or carpark.

What "reason" (if any) do they give for this?

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He was wearing a high viz coat but his car didn't look official.

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Useless laws weaken necessary laws.

I drive past that camera most days. I'd love to know what he was doing too. I can't find the figures now, but the accident rate went up after the camera was installed, although the number of KSI dropped. They remodelled the junction around the same time so it's hard to know the true effect of the camera or the engineering.

Maybe it was someone gathering data to try to determine why there are so many accidents. The main reason is fairly obvious if you use the road enough. It is a steep (for Suffolk!) downhill stretch on a 50mph DC and it is really hard maintaining 50 whilst watching for stuff pulling out at the crossroad. People don't give themselves enough space and you can't be sure if vehicles are braking because they are turning off or just slowing for the camera until immediately before the junction.

Be careful if you go up the hill northbound on the other carriageway before the Highwayman pub as it's a favourite haunt of the scamera van.

I think my irony meter just exploded.

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In times of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

They're up to something... There was a man in a hi vis jacket with a clip board sitting observing the traffic this morning.

Obviously an undercover ploy to distract you from the Corp. Fraser type character disguised as a bush on the opposite side!

Auch! Yae Doomed Mon!, Yae Aw Doomed!.......