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Dixie
 Post subject: Attacks on speed cameras
PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 14:42 
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Attacks on speed cameras

A SPEED camera has been torched.

The camera, in The Avenue, March, was set alight shortly after 10pm yesterday (Sunday, 06 August) with firefighters on the scene by 10.30pm.

The fire was out by 10.45pm.

The incident follows an attack on a controversial new camera on Friday.

A tyre was hung round the camera, on the eastbound carriageway of the A14 just past the junction with the A11 near Swaffham Bulbeck, and set alight.

Emergency services have criticised the camera for causing more crashes in the area - caused by motorists suddenly slowing down when they see it.


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Emergency services have criticised the camera for causing more crashes in the area - caused by motorists suddenly slowing down when they see it.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 16:38 
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Dixie wrote:
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A SPEED camera has been torched.

:gatso3: :clap1:

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Well it is "open season"... Aledgedly.

It took the fire fighters 15 minutes to put the fire out once they had arrived? Is that normal or did they spend 10 minutes waiting to make sure it had cooked fully first?

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Ziltro wrote:
Well it is "open season"... Aledgedly.

It took the fire fighters 15 minutes to put the fire out once they had arrived? Is that normal or did they spend 10 minutes waiting to make sure it had cooked fully first?

I'd like to think the latter... :hehe:

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Ziltro wrote:
It took the fire fighters 15 minutes to put the fire out once they had arrived? Is that normal or did they spend 10 minutes waiting to make sure it had cooked fully first?


Toasting marshmallows... :hehe:

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Dixie
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If you go to the page there's an online poll.

Do you think Captain Gatso's campaign to wreck speed cameras is misguided?

Yes 53%
No 47%

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Related:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,, ... 08,00.html

"As many as 16% of people would support "vigilante" gangs who destroy speed cameras, a survey shows."
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yes 52%
No 48%

It is getting close.

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Please , what are we talkig about ??

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