Senior NZ cop on the shooting of a speed camera:
Superintendent Steve Greally: “Whether you agree with the fact that a camera’s there or not, you don’t take a gun and try and destroy it. That’s barbaric, and it’s incredibly violent behaviour, and somebody’s clearly out of control.” link
I don’t recall a senior NZ police officer ever referring to black gangs and their prediliction for rape and mayhem in the same terms.
Priorities and multiculti pieties, eh?
CrusaderRabbit
FOR LIBERTY
Yeah, the person out of control is Superintendent Steve Greally – his language is over the top in describing a normal human response to a police cash cow when there is no evidence of any effective policing to prevent dangerous road habits or curbing of criminal activity in NZ.
No, it’s not “only” a camera. It is, at minimum, two things: (1) a steady stream of revenue into the government’s coffers, and (2) a symbol of government power over the citizenry.
By attacking – in such a vile, violent and senseless manner – the symbol, whomever is perpetrating the violence is directly (as directly as possible, without actually raising one’s head above the parapet) challenging the monarchical power of the government.
If I find out who it is, I’ll make a donation to his Legal Defence Fund!
You don’t live anywhere near Wainuiomata or the Hutt Valley, do you KG?
More way than one to skin a bureaucrat.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-13409566
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/48/4828.asp
https://www.motorists.org/blog/everybody-loves-to-destroy-ticket-cameras/
Next thing you’ll be seeing are surveillance cameras watching for vandals molesting the ticket cameras. Then surveillance cameras watching over the surveillance cameras. And pretty soon, you won’t be able to see the sky because of all the damn cameras overhead!!! Where will it all end!!!
Perhaps it might end with the removal of all the nanny state asswipes.
We had some bloke freeing up clamped cars, he was dubbed Angle Grinder Man. His heroism encouraged others to act. Soon we had so many speed cameras destroyed by ordinary blokes, (would you expect the missus to do this?), blokes using wonderfully inventive and entertaining methods to kill the kams. There was a website showing pics of them.
Brilliant! Direct action is the only solution, Andy. Mind you, a lot of Kiwis pride themselves on being the Sweden of the South Pacific. so I won’t hold my breath…
Our local traffic gestapo posted a speed camera in a brand new X-Trail on a patch of road where there’s been no fatalities in living memory.
Darn thing caught on fire several hours later.
Never seen one around here since.
Spontaneous combustion, obviously. There’s a bit of it about, but there could be a lot more.
What I love most about this is the sheer contradiction in terms of manpower usage it creates.
“Boys, someone shot our unmanned camera, so from now on we’re going to guard them, with two men, for safety.”
“Boss, why not just post a single officer to patrol and ditch the camera?”
I say let Darwin and the free market sort it out.Yank the speed limit signs down.especially in school zones,and let nature take it’s course.
Think of it,car wrecks are good for the body shops and car makers,idiots that shouldn’t be driving are deleted from the gene pool and any kid too stupid to stay out of the road doesn’ need to grow up and have stupid kids of his own.
Holland actually tried that in a rural town and accidents dropped to near-zero. Whodathunkit, eh?
I got the solution guys. Why don’t we build our own speed cameras, nothing fancy, even an old letterbox on a stick will do.
We could then dance around them from time to time, maybe even shout out the occasional “allahsnackbar” or three and I’m sure the money will just fall from the sky.
Probably even better results would obtain if camera cop Steve could be rendered down for his powerful juju.
Shooting the cameras IS barbaric,especially when high order explosives are clearly what’s needed.
Years ago my buddy Pete and a mutual friend Sandy were riding down a well lit city street around 2:00 am one morning in Pete’s welding truck.We all worked in the same Boat yard,Pete was a welder,Sandy a pipe fitter that owned a couple Shrimp boats that he ran with his brother.One of his boats was on shore for repair and refit and he needed a new radio mast,preferably in Aluminum.
So Sandy and Pete were the only ones riding down the street at 2:00 am when suddenly Pete gets an idea.He stomped the gas,jumped the curb and smacked one of the light posts shattering the base and dropping the post in the grass like a felled tree.He and Sandy jumped out the truck,loped the electric cables off with a hatchet and boosted the 30 odd foot tapered Aluminum pole up on the truck’s pipe rack and hauled ass.
For years after that Sandy’s was the only boat with sealed Sodium”work” lights on the radio mast that came on automatically at sunset
Good point. Through the roof rhetoric about a $50 camera but silence when a citizen is raped or assaulted by a Muslim or a minority. The left likes to talk about right-wing extremism but burning cars, grooming thousands of young women for prostitution, no-go areas, and cities swarming with foreigners is “normal.” Not one of those things energizes the police at all. But a traffic camera? Whoa! Read the swine the Riot Act!!
Ten or twenty years ago they would have quietly replaced the cameras and not much would have been said. Ditto for any kind of gun-related anti-authority gesture. I’ve heard plenty of stories from the old timers about police who had their car windows shot out routinely. It never so much as made the local papers.
Now? You can sense the terrified pitch in their voice. Muggings? Shrug. Rapes? Yawn. Massive government fraud? Snooze button please.
But someone shoots a speed camera and flip out like a cut snake. Why? Because they know which way the wind is blowing.
They’re like the animal trainer, madly screaming at the bull elephant to sit still in the hopes it never looks down at the chain around its ankle and thinks “that thing isn’t nearly as thick as I remember it being”.
Ah,but all those wild eyed radicals with blood in their eyes might bring an end to their pensions,and to even suggest they go out and do their f–king jobs by fighting actual,real crime,well that’s just too much to ask.
Yep. Exactly.
Priorities, Colonel.
In Western Queensland, the fools post traffic cameras on roadworks on almost deserted country roads, where you’d be lucky to see more than a few vehicles on a 500km overnight trip.
And a LOT of rural Queenslanders travel well-armed.
As always, common calibres and ammo swapping at the range are the bane of circumstantial evidence.
Granted, circumstantial evidence might not be enough to convict on, but it tells them where to start looking, which is the proverbial foot in the door.
The camera on camera within a steel fence was seen at Pukerua Bay north of Wellington a few years ago but didn’t last long as it generated hardly any revenue. Some dick must have thought people will always be speeding at the bottom of a hill but this exercise in waste showed that the speed limit at that point was probably about right and people didn’t actually speed.