If you’ll pardon me a moment of gloating, folks, I saw this coming.

Apparently someone, dissatisfied with having their driving behavior monitored by remote, took a tire, set it on top of a speed camera and set it on fire.

The camera was destroyed, of course–being the victim of a so-called “necklacing” will generally do that to you–but the more important issue here is what spurred this on.

It’s not exactly normal to see the Brits, normally civil to the core, turn to arson to protest.  Was this part of a protest?  Or was this just some kids out for some destructive fun?  If so, they choice their targets well because the waters are now so muddied as to the true motive on this that no one will ever know.  This isn’t the first time the Brits have set a traffic cam ablaze, though, and that makes things even more complex.  I don’t advocate the destruction and vandalism of public property–I know lawyers well enough to know better than to do that!–but it’s still an interesting story.

Do people hate speed cameras that much?  I wouldn’t be at all surprised.