There have been recent reports the world over about vigilantes vandalising, torching and even shooting at
speed cameras. In the USA Baltimore Police are searching for a vandal who poured petrol over, then set fire to a mobile speed detector device which was placed on a stand. Closer to home in France there have been reports of vandals spray painting two speed cameras on either side of the RN88 road in Lescure-d'Albigeoius. In Cerans-Foulletourte a man took the rather more extreme action of blasting a speed camera twice with a shotgun, disabling the machine which was located on the RD323 road near Le Mans. The anti speed camera sentiment has also reached Terni, Italy where one of the most productive speed cameras (and most profitable, clocking up a vast amount of speeding tickets since its installation on November 5th last year) was smashed up recently. Whether the culprits of the recent incidents were disgruntled motorists who had received speeding tickets thanks to the machines they attacked remains to be seen, but these stories certainly prove that speed cameras divide opinions and can cause extreme reactions all over the world, as they do here in Great Britain.