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Posted: 2/6/2007 3:26:55 AM EDT
Looks like some people have had enough…
ANdy Now speed camera HQ is bombed Last updated at 11:59am on 6th February 2007 Two people were injured today in another letter bomb attack - this time targeting a speed camera headquarters. It comes just 24 hours after an explosion in the post room of congestion charge firm Capita. Read more... • Did disgruntled customer send 'letter bomb' to C-charge HQ? www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=434091&in_page_id=1770 Police are trying to establish any links between the attacks. Detectives fear a motorist is attacking firms that run traffic penalty schemes. The devices seem to be designed to injure but not kill victims. Today's explosion happened at 9am at the offices of Vantis, in Wokingham, Berkshire - a company involved in speed cameras. Two male workers suffered blast injuries. Neither was seriously hurt but both were said to be "traumatised". The man who opened the package received injuries to his upper body and hands. At least 14 other workers were evacuated from the building, in Fishponds Road within an industrial estate in Wokingham. Campaigner Captain Gatso, the director of group Motorists Against Detection, said today: "We are not responsible for these attacks and do not condone causing injury to anyone. However, there is a war against motorists and it seems this is an act of retaliation." Police revealed that yesterday's bomb, which exploded in Victoria Street in central London, was contained in a Jiffy bag padded envelope. The woman who was handling it, said to be in her thirties, was not the intended recipient. She suffered cuts to her stomach and injuries to her hands when the bomb, an incendiary device, went off. The blast left her marked with soot and she was led weeping and dazed from the building to an ambulance. More than 100 workers were evacuated from six floors of the building as police cordoned off the scene, which is less than a mile from the Houses of Parliament. Bomb disposal experts and sniffer dogs searched the offices in Victoria Street near Scotland Yard. Police say that, so far, there has been no claim of responsibility for either attack. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=434228&in_page_id=1770&ct=5 |
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So they are puting tires on the speed camras and setting them on fire to kill the speed camera's. Time to ban tires, for the children. |
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'Customer', huh? Is that what they really call the people they ticket? I'd be pissed about that. |
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first thing i though too. |
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Good for them...Can't wait till it happens here....And I do not mean the Traffic ticket or the DMV.....
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Welll....they were "serviced". I agree with the push back comment. |
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So y'all think it is ok to send letter bombs in the mail?
That's fucking sad. I hope they catch the fuckers who sent them and they spend the rest of their days in prison. |
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+1. It may be directed against a cause that we hate, but it is terrorism, nonetheless. |
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As was the Boston tea party.
Seems that tyranny is getting too much over there m, |
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Well voting obvously doesn't work, so? -dan |
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really? so, when the police say anything you go along with it? when people choose to work for the SS, they are ok because it's just a job? slipperly ethical slope you are on my friend. You can chooes to be free or you can work for the government, you can't be both. |
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Voting DOES work......it just doesn't always end up the way you want, but it always ends up the way the majority wants. |
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You are the one on the slippery slope dude. If you want to fight for whats right......don't be a fucking coward and send a letter bomb, that probably won't get to a target you wish eliminated. Grab a gun and make a stand in the street.....I'd think you were a dumbshit, but I might have a bit of respect. |
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AND I heard on Fox News, that this was possibly an animal rights group.
If that's true, I have no idea why they would choose this target. |
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I find it funny that people don't seem to have a problem getting ticketed personally but they hate getting caught by a machine.
Maybe the UK should spend the money on more police instead of machines. |
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action / reaction
fuck with enough people long enough and they will fuck right back with you.... |
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That's called mob-rule and isn't what the Founding Fathers wanted for America. The majority ruling over the minority is not freedom. |
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I doubt the majority wants speed cameras anyway. -dan |
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never has the use of a single word hit the nail on the head so squarely. |
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"And the speed camera man
Like lightening ran From the letter bomb of the M-A-D." |
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No, but it's the very definition of democracy. What the majority wants, the majority gets. The minority is protected by the Constitution and the judicial branch's checks and balances on the legislature. |
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What was it that Jefferson(?) said about the Sheas (Whiskey?) Rebellion?
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and the blood of patriots. God forbid we go more than 20 years without such an event." Did I get that right? -K |
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They're using the cameras to dispatch dog catchers to nab jay walking mutts? Meanwhile, latest plan in GB is to charge parents of fat kids with neglect/abuse and possibly remove the |
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Burning tires? Please. youtube.com/watch?v=WrCWLpRc1yM |
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I think they need to replace the burning tires with thermite and a vase on the Gatso's, just a suggestion.
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That isn't mob-rule. Mob-rule would be a couple of hundred rioters. They would "rule" the streets, temporarily anyway. If any of you think it is a good idea to use letter bombs to effect a political change, you are mentally unstable. This is terrorism.....the same fucking terrorism that the 9/11 hi jackers used to hit this country. It's just on a smaller scale. I assure you the children of the victims of smaller acts of terrorism don't feel any less victimized than the victims of 9/11. Why would they? |
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I've seen them in Scottsdale |
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Virginia had them, but they were declared unconstitutional and yanked. |
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I do. The most powerful attorney's office in this area went to court on behalf of a single person issued a ticket. The judge ruled the cameras were in volation of the law. The city is trying to rewrite it's laws, and is trying to get the State to change it's laws to make the cameras legal again. Records indicate more than a million dollars of revenue were generated in a single year. The attorneys are petitioning for a class, so everyone who received a ticket could join a class-action lawsuit to get their money back. I have received three of these BS tickets, and would stand to receive $180 back. Edit: And I can't target the cameras for vandalism. The city hired babysitters to park next to the cameras and watch for trouble. |
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i believe i read that they brought in 20 million dollars last year. |
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Interesting story. So what happens when you catch the perpetrators of the attack and the void is filled by new attacks? What has to happen before the UK recognizes the opposition to the cameras?
I like watching how arguments of violence turn into "Fight like a man" or "Confront me face to face". Clearly this person hasn't studied anything of game theory or tactics. You don't accomplish anything by being stupid, or worse dead. We had a video awhile back of insurgents filming their own deaths. Now I surely hope this was an isolated incident, a single perpetrator. I can only imagine if it wasn't, how worse its going to get before the situation gets better. |
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In Montana? Damn things would be shot to Swiss cheese in hours. |
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I am strangely unconcerned about stuff like that blowing up...
-Z |
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By generating that kind of income, the cameras justify their expensive up-start cost and the potential baby-sitting of the units. |
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People who open the mail? What about their kids, any concern there? |
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Yep. I'm not saying it's right, but I do understand why people are doing it. |
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