Speed camera blown up

A £40,000 speed camera was destroyed after it was blasted with a home-made bomb.
Five cameras on the same stretch of the A37 between Bath and Wells in Somerset have been damaged or sabotaged in the past nine months.

Since last May, 12 of the 50 cameras put in place by Avon and Somerset Safety Camera Partnership have been targeted by vandals.

The latest attack took place in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The camera in the village of Emborough, near Shepton Mallet has already been replaced.

One of the other cameras on the road was demolished using an angle grinder and three others were burned using tyres filled with petrol.

can i send a donation to these people?? have to do yer bit i reckon

One picture is worth a thousand words

NICE. Any idea where I can get one of those shirts?

You know you can buy that printer paper that after printing you can iron the image onto a t-shirt? It's gotta be the Locost way!


I've not done it so no idea how many washes the picture will survive!

James

I drive past that very camera every single day, and saw it with the back hanging off about a week ago, 24 hours later it was fully reinstated, unbelievable. It must be the only area in which they're halfway efficient. If it had been a dangerous pot hole, it would have taken months.

It's the second time in about 6 months that it's been destroyed, and the ones before and after it have also been trashed, so there was quite a while when there wasn't a single camera on my way to work

Kingr

I am hoping there is a video somewhere of the explosion - it would be a shame to have gone to the trouble of getting the dynamite to do its job and not record the moment.

Surely it must be on the web somewhere!

[Edited on 6/2/04 by andyps]

I drive past that very camera every single day, and saw it with the back hanging off about a week ago, 24 hours later it was fully reinstated, unbelievable. It must be the only area in which they're halfway efficient. If it had been a dangerous pot hole, it would have taken months.

It's the second time in about 6 months that it's been destroyed, and the ones before and after it have also been trashed, so there was quite a while when there wasn't a single camera on my way to work

Kingr

funny how these double posts take hours to appear. is it caused by the database problem and refreshing the post reply screen? im having to refresh most pages now...