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They have signs on them saying they're weather stations. This "mistaken for speed cameras" shit is bollocks to play down any concern that might arise from the question of why there might be an individual or group intentionally attacking weather stations.
These 3 stations are all at least 3km away from one another too. You have to travel a good distance to intentionally target them and they're not on the same road or anything.
Exactly. I'd put money on it being either some sort of crank conspiracy or mental health related paranoia or both.
Different part of the country, but when they put up advanced barometers near us to measure wind for potentially building an off shore wind farm, they kept getting vandalised and destroyed. I assumed it was by someone who was against the idea of building the wind farm but a few weeks later all the houses around me started getting photocopied flyers about how they were 5G linked spyware that collected all digital and phone signals in the area to control and blackmail us as part of a test programme that would be rolled out across the UK.
I wish communists had the energy and motivation to flyer whole areas like conspiracy theorists do damn
Sorry pal, best I can do is stickerbomb my laptop with overpriced slop I got on RedBubble
Never met a trot I see
The UK is absolutely dominated by trotskyism and i've never seen a communist flyer stuck through letterboxes anywhere in the country.
Oh weird in my part of the US trots are always putting up flyers and mailers and shit
Possibly speed cameras are good because they keep people safe?
Feel free to disagree. I've put zero thought into this.
They don't. Realistically everyone knows where they are especially because map apps tell you, so they do whatever speed they want, slam on their brakes right before the cameras, crawl past them at ridiculously low speeds, get out of range, and then just go right back to doing whatever speed they want.
Sure it often slows things down a bit right in the corridor where the cameras are but if it was ever actually about safety, we would be using physics to slow cars down rather than cameras. Even in those corridors usually people are more focused on the camera than the road at that point so if anything its a distraction that makes people drive unsafely.
Red light cameras may be a different story but I doubt it
so they do whatever speed they want, slam on their brakes right before the cameras, crawl past them at ridiculously low speeds, get out of range, and then just go right back to doing whatever speed they want.
if it was ever actually about safety, we would be using physics to slow cars down rather than cameras
That’s why average speed cameras are now the preferred traffic calming measures on long roads. You can’t avoid ¯v = ∆s / ∆t, you have to stay under a certain speed while you’re between cameras.
Agreed, but think every car should have monitor that just stops you from speeding (with a manual override button for very necessary occasions). Every override is checked by the local government where you did it and your license is taken if you used it without a proper reason. Then speed cameras become unnecessary and we can eliminate like 90% of US cops whose only possible positive impact is causing drivers to be cautious with speed
Fuck that. Speeding is a fake crime invented to criminalize large swathes of the population. They don't even have a scientific process for setting speed limits - they just build a road, see what speed people naturally drive on it, and then set the limit to 80% of that number.
To be clear, "driving dangerously," including going much faster than the surrounding traffic, is and should be a crime, but "speeding" as we currently define it should not.
Wish they'd posted pics of the roads these were on as well.
If you've ever been to Tow Law then this level of stupidity is hardly surprising