Heh

Someone in New Jersey isn't happy with cameras:

• Someone with a gun is apparently settling scores with those red-light traffic cameras so reviled by New Jersey motorists.

  Two of the devices were shot in Newark today, police said.

  Red-light cameras at the intersections of Broad and Murray streets and Broad Street and Raymond Boulevard were given the same treatment as that ill-fated hotel room TV that enraged Elvis.

As you might see in the photograph from the linked story, the shots went through the side of the cameras housing, effectively disabling the camera and shielding the identity of the vandal from the camera's own eye.

For shame!

This isn't the first time traffic cameras have come to grief from unset citizens. Look what they do in Britain:

• Passing motorists applauded as a pair of speed cameras in Hampshire, UK met with a fiery end in the past week. Burning tires were used to end automated ticketing efforts on Marine Parade West in Lee-on-the-Solent and on Gosport Road in Fareham. Local officials noted public approval of the vigilante efforts.
  
  "There were whoops of delight coming from the cars, but I'm afraid that's the culture we live in today," Fareham Borough Council member Dennis Steadman told the Hampshire Daily Echo newspaper.

That one happened a few years back, but the rage continues to this day. A quick search reveals constant attacks on the machines that are viewed solely as a money grab by politicians and are proven to increase the number of accidents at most intersections rather than promote any sort of safety. Naughty citizens.