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Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, UK: Speed Cameras Destroyed, Damaged
Vigilantes worldwide use sticks, spraypaint and fire to disable and dismantle automated ticketing machines.

A speed camera was set on fire in West Yorkshire, England last weekend. According to the Spenborough Guardian http://www.spenboroughguardian.co.uk/news/local/speed-camera-inferno-1-4737553, a burning tire was used to destroy the device on Halifax Road in the hamlet of Hartshead Moor Top.

In Haut-Doubs, France, vigilantes have once again covered the speed camera in Houtaud with pink spraypaint. Plen Air http://www.pleinair.net/detail_48_52648-Le-radar-fixe-d-Houtaud-de-nouveau-tague.html reports the device still has residual paint left on it from a similar attack a few weeks ago.

In Szczecin, Poland, vigilantes on Thursday covered a speed camera with spray paint. The device located on the Wojska Polskiego turned out to be an empty camera housing, Szczecin Gazeta http://szczecin.gazeta.pl/szczecin/1,34959,12123651,Ktos_zamalowal_okno_traffipaxu__Nie_bedzie_zdjec_piratow.html reported.

In Moen, Belgium a speed camera was destroyed after it failed to stop an accident. A car headed down the Keiberg toward Zwevegem smashed into the pole, knocking it over according to Handelsblad http://kw.knack.be/west-vlaanderen/nieuws/algemeen/wagen-knalt-tegen-flitspaal-in-moen/article-4000136936127.htm.

In Brescia, Italy vigilantes used silver, purple and brown spraypaint to disable six speed cameras on Friday. Four were located in Niardo and two in Malegno, according to Giornalettismo http://www.giornalettismo.com/archives/404791/gli-autovelox-sabotati-con-lo-spray/. In Rovigo, Italy a thirty-year-old man was arrested and accused of bashing a speed camera with a stick last week Sunday. Police in the Piano di Riva area and saw the man whacking the camera with a stick, Il Resto del Carlino http://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rovigo/cronaca/2012/07/08/741067-prende_bastonate_autovelox_sulla_romea_ingiusto.shtml reported.
 

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