[Teotwawki]

I often fantasize about using paint balls on the cameras. Way too many cameras and most of the traffic cameras are more about revenue than safety.

[IronJack]

This comes following a half dozen incidents of vandalism and general meanness toward the cameras in the county.

I'm wondering if maybe the folks being monitored don't like being monitored. And if they're wondering why a government of, for, and by The People has to monitor every move The People make ...

[JRandomFreeper]

We finally have the answer to "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

/johnny

[Oberon]

If a person had a beat-up old dump truck, say a Ford F-600, it would be fairly simple to just run these cameras over and keep on going.

[Tublecane]

What’s to stop tgem from attacking the cameras watching the cameras watching traffic cameras? Will they eventually approach infinite regress with cameras to watch cameras to watch cameras...

[ConorMacNessa]

Hate those things. I've gotten nailed once, my wife has gotten nailed once and my daughter has gotten nailed twice.



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Clock King]

...general meanness toward the cameras...

General meanness? What, people hurt the cameras' feelings?

[Alex Murphy]

"WTOP’S Ari Ashe is reporting that Prince George’s County is mounting cameras to monitor its traffic cameras. This comes following a half dozen incidents of vandalism and general meanness toward the cameras in the county."

Six incidences are enough to double the number of cameras? I wonder if a third set will be installed, to watch the second set?

[fr_freak]

Bwahaha - further demonstration of the idiocy of bureaucrats. Let’s see - everybody finds out and sees that there are cameras watching the traffic cameras, so they destroy the camera that watches the camera, first, then destroy the traffic camera. After that, I’m sure the geniuses in government will say “I know! We’ll put up cameras to watch the cameras that watch the cameras, so nobody can damage the cameras that watch the cameras! Brilliant!”

[Boogieman]

We’ve still got a long way to go if we want to match the diligence of the British in destroying traffic cameras:

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm

[freedumb2003]

A smart person would take our the monitoring camera first.

I guess they will need cameras to monitor the monitoring cameras.

[ZULU]

George Washington would have cut them down with his sword!

[AnalogReigns]

Wonder who’s going to monitor the cameras monitoring the camera monitors?

I live in NC, and I must admit it is CREEPY that EVERY stop-light in the state of VA now has a camera affixed to it.

When are folks going to realize we are in the process of setting up a totalitarian-fascist state?

[KevinB]

Every week I travel from Virginia to Maryland and back. I got two tickets for speeding in construction zones in MD. In both cases there were no workers present (rain and darkness). That’s $80 in fines. I did some research and learned that MD has a 23.5 cent per gallon gas tax. So I decided that to retaliate I would always fill up my tank in Virginia rather than buying gas in MD. That was a while ago, so I’m sure that Maryland has actually suffered a net loss of revenue as a result of my two tickets. Snicker.

[x]

Quis custodiet ipsos videocameras?

[Iron Munro]

"general meanness toward the cameras in the county"

Sounds like hate crimes against cameras.

You really can't make stuff up.
Fortunately we have government and media employees to do it for us.

[RingerSIX]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I wonder if you could burn out the CCD with a laser?

[Ancesthntr]

We’re becoming the Gray State: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7FVXERKFE

[dartuser]

Because no one is smart enough to take out the camera watching the speed camera first ... then the speed camera.