a burning Tyre, you say?

lol who ever is doing this... good on ya!

Should try that here in Phx.

We don't have those here. I doubt we ever will.

I can't imagine how irittating it must be to drive by one of those, every day, and feel you have to just suck it up.

I can't believe anyone whould advocate destroying public british property because that's the most british of all property. WE must uphold hte lawa!!

I love living in a city with red light cameras and a transportation board that "doesn't believe in left turn signals" -- that means even in places with a left turn lane, you can never actually make a legal turn. Guess where the cameras are showing up...

Help! The link is farked and I still don't know what "necklacing" means!

/is it kinky?
//because it sounds kinky
///hey, baby...

Was it a pearl necklace? Because if it was, then I'd hate to be the poor "chap" who has to clean it up.

Speeders should be "necklaced".

Nevermind, I found it:

Seventh attack on speed cameras
Borders police are investigating the seventh vandalism attack on speed cameras in the area in three years.
A camera on the A697 at Rumbletonrig near Greenlaw was damaged at the weekend when a burning tyre was also put round another camera on the road.

Police have appealed for witnesses to either incident to come forward.

Eight cameras were installed on the A697 10 years ago. The other vandal attacks have taken place on the A1 and A68 in the region.
LINK

/not nearly as kinky as I was hoping for

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Humean_Nature: Help! The link is farked and I still don't know what "necklacing" means!

You don't wanna know.

But if you really wanna know, it's basically execution by putting a burning tire around somebody's neck (while they're bound); and after they're sufficiently beaten up. It's a form of public street justice in some countries.

In this case the burning tire was put on the camera.

Necklacing refers to the act of placing a tire (or tyre if you're British) around the object (camera in this case) and using gasoline to light it on fire. Very popular in South Africa during the apartheid years, except sub people for the cameras.

Dumb question....Did, um, the police check the tape?

Speed cameras? Stalin smiles profusely in his grave.

Only the seventh in three years?! The Brits are falling down on the job. Even Canadians could do better.

Forward is the only direction I can come.

I don't think the police are going to investigate it too much. Most cops don't like the ideas of speed cameras and red light cameras.

derek20cali Speeders should be "necklaced".

You can say that because you've never breached the speed limit.

"Give them speed tickets or give them death."

Here in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area, a small town nearby is considering this. I think it just might happen over here one of these days.

Point02GPA - That's a Sicilian necktie. You gotta do that to (dead) cats when you're dissecting them in anatomy lab to see the roof of the mouth and throat. Disgusting.

Point02GPA

that's a "Columbian neck tie"

Point02GPA: I think the term "necklacing" or derivative was used in the Simpson trail. S. American drug dealers would slit a snitches throat and pull out the victim's tongue.

No, that's a "Colombian necktie."

Point02GPA: drug dealers would slit a snitches throat and pull out the victim's tongue.

No No thats a Columbian necktie

maybe it's a "Columbine Neck-Tye" ?

nytmare: You can say that because you've never breached the speed limit.

I never said that. I try not to, though. The same can't be said for some others.

Hello Kitty: You gotta do that to (dead) cats when you're dissecting them

Funny that you'd post that given your username....

Civil disobedience. If it was just made common policy that whenever someoone sees one, they bust it out or spray paint over it, they couldn't continue to replace them. Problem solved.

No matter how hard the government tries, if enough of the people don't want it, they can make it impossible to maintain.

Civil disobedience at its best.

Point02GPA
we call them columbian neckties

Goodfella: DIAF please.

M-G - I guess I'm a biologist who thinks Hello Kitty is cute. Did sound pretty funny.

You don't just slit the throat, you have to cut through the tendon in the front of the lower jaw and pretty much break the whole thing. Works though.

The dasmn Brits are ahead of us on this one. I'm sure some of us here would consider necklacing, lassoing and dragging, torching in some more imaginative way, or simply dynamiting traffic cameras to be in some way antisocial. I'm also sure that those same people are the LCDs for whose competence the various traffic laws are designed to meet. These least competent drivers determine the speed limit by their proven statistical ability to drive safely at those speeds but not much over. The rest us are stuck at that speed. Since many of these people also lack any discernable road awareness, such as that someone else might be interested to know that they are planning to turn, for example, they are continually surprised by cars seeming to come out of nowhere or going faster in the right lane than they are in the left. Sigh. Most of all, they miss out on the best part of driving in traffic. It's a dance and we're all each others' partners. It's probably the most complex group dancing that humans have ever done. It changes constantly. Fortunately there is a finite number of moves we can make and stay viable and we all generally agree to limit ourselves to those most mutually beneficial, but creativity does appear. We look at road rage, look at the general design of human beings (congratulatorily the most dangerous animal on this planet) and ask if we're not looking to some extent in the wrong direction when we choose to pooh-pooh something. Sometimes there are justifiable causes. Just shout Hey! Cabrón!. The rest will just be fun. Like driving a big yellow Checker Marathon all over Chicago at night. That car could make a 90° turn in the middle of an intersection at 33 mph. And you could pack 11 teen aged basketball players and cheerleaders into it on a blizzardly night on the southside. A northside white kid just outa the marine corps, a year splicing cable for Ma Bell, and school cruising the southside. Police would stop me and say "Whyn't get back up north. Just found a guy sittin' in his cab in that lot right there with a bullet in his head...engine was still running..." Everyone I picked up was surprised, "What're you doing here?" That was after the initial surprise that a cab even stopped for them. That same blizzard night up by the University of Chicago there appeared on a barren and seriously windswept midnight corner the very description given by numberless robbed cabdrivers: young. black, male. With his arm outstretched. I actually made my turn and started heading back downtown. Fortunately I was able to make a u-turn and when he got in we talked and he explained that he had come some distance at the invitation of a white friend and when he got there he heard a woman inside and his friend apparently refused to answer the door. He was very thankful that I had stopped because I was the only cab he had seen in a half hour of great discomfort. Here, I brought this for my friend but you certainly deserve it. It was a nickel bag of some nice smelling herb. After he got home and our conversation ended, I realized why we're concerned about black people. And it isn't physical prowess. I'd a voted for Colin Powell in a heartbeat, blue or red. If one is appalled can one be said to be having an appallation? When he signed on with Bushetal, my stunation was in appallation. This guy who had been in my cab was in at least the same league with Mr Powell...And another memory of that particular night was that, staying on the southside, everyone who got in after that had rolling papers and an interesting perspective. One of my favorite nights. Driving in traffic is a dance. And sometimes all we want to do is dance through. And we nood no machines to help us with that.

derek20cali: Goodfella: DIAF please.

Say what? For advocating civil disobedience? Perhaps using it to protest speeding cameras isn't the most noble of causes.. but that's a bit extreme don't you think?

derek20cali: Goodfella: DIAF please.

Why? Civil disobedience is crucial to the democratic process. It keeps the government on it's toes. Perhaps the government should be more interested in real crime. Or something more worthy of their intrest on the road, such as left lane squatters going the speed limit, or idiots being unable to merge. What? those things don't fund local government like speeding fines, and are harder to prosecute? Now, that's just cynical thinking. Nobody would take the easy, disingenuous, lazy way out, especially those who might gain financially. It is clearly not a safety issue, because if it were, we would see things like yearly road testing, actual penalties for DUI, suspended licenses, reckless driving, failure to yield, ect. The fact that we don't see these things in action is proof enough for me. The system is broken, and we are thinking of installing speed camera's. Intelligent.

Stormport: ¶

We are the system. It lives only in us.

America revolted and declared independance largely over overbearing taxation. But today, you pay tax on tax.

/how long will people put up with this?