“I think this is quite funny tbh, i mean it cost 100's and 1000's of pounds to put one of these cameras in place, just to make a measly £60 back its stupidity in my opinion, the current climate these days is getting ever worse with the number of job cuts, pay decreases etc. I say we take on the same action as swindon have and prove that there is no need for speed cameras in this region. It was amusing seeing the camera all black and looking sorry for itself!”

“It is always interesting when one of Brown's Cash Cameras or another Stealth Tax Collection point gets zapped.

You do not have to speed to get clobbered in the way that speeding was meant to be dangerous.

There are many roads in Plymouth that without doubt have limits set to tax drivers and catch them out. Nothing to do with road safety, just to do with making money.”

“Brilliant.
The more speed cameras that are KILLED..the better.
They rip the drivers off.
One tin of spray paint.....loads of cameras!!!!!”

“u bad egg, u should get a knighthood. i dont disagree with speed cameras if they were used proplery and there was a bit of give and take.
get the real crimanals off the streets not some 70 year old person that is going a bit fast.”

“Because I¿ll be honest about it, speed cameras themselves don¿t bother or affect me in the slightest, I see them as little more than a monument to failure, a white elephant and a modern day folly of wishful thinking.

What I object to is cutting our traffic police to rely on them.

You hear all this total nonsense from the camera supporters about ¿stay below the limit and you¿ve got nothing to worry about¿ and ¿you motorists think you own the roads¿ and all the other similar garbage that totally misses the point.

While the rest of us watch every road in the country being used as a race track except for the hundred yards a camera covers. Meanwhile the drink drive figures continue to rise, driving under the influence of drugs goes unchallenged and a whole raft of crime spring up due to the easily exploited loopholes in speed camera policy leaving the rest of us legal drivers more vulnerable than we¿ve every been before.

Yet still the simple minded camera supporters don¿t get it, they still witter on as if the drivers the rest of us can see surfing and ignore these ridiculous cameras everyday are actually scared of them. If it wasn¿t so serious, it¿d be funny!

But why does it continue? because Camera manufacturers such as Redflex are spending millions each year on political lobbying to make sure their lucrative contracts don't have the plug pulled.

safety?, as eddie royle would say ..my ****!”

“I do fear for the safety of these camera people, it may be relatively civilised here in the UK when compared to the rest of the world, but as has been witnessed with fatal shootings of camera operators in Arizona, another petrol bomb attack on a camera van in Ireland just this last week, not to mention the hundreds (if not thousands) of attacks on fixed cameras every year right across the globe, from Australia to America, England and right across Europe as an increasingly angry general public realise they¿re victims of a huge con trick.

Fourteen states in America have now listened to what their general public have been saying by organised lawful lobbying against speed cameras and have outlawed photo enforcement because they¿ve realised the concept simply doesn¿t work.

Bear that in mind, because in your haste to celebrate the demise of a speed camera at the hand of an arsonist you may not realise you won¿t be as impressed if someone gets seriously hurt or worse.”

“Although, from my comments you should be able to easily deduce that I believe speed cameras are an abject failure and unfit for purpose and a huge confidence trick played by an incompetent bean counting government who believes everybody is as gullible as they are and are determined to turn our road network back into the pot hole strewn, crime ridden wasteland of the last time they were in power during the 1970¿s.

I think you¿re all setting a very dangerous precedent by congratulating these arsonists.

There has never been a time when combating one crime with another crime is the right thing to do.”

“Glad to see some you having a happy day because one speed camera got destroyed. Lets hope no one gets hurt today on that stretch of road because you think you can drive faster without fear of getting caught !

Back to the REAL story. Do some of you not realise that someones car was stolen, for all you now someone who may need transport for various reasons. If anyone thinks that is funny then maybe it could be your car next time. You should also think that the fire fighters had to be called out wasting their time and resources for morons.
So while some of you are on here praising them you are actually encouraging others to do the same.”

“Whom ever did this to this camera my heartfelt thanks for getting another obtrusive looking beast off our streets, afterall they look so offensive !!”

“The reason I don't drive is partly due to the attitudes of other plonkers, some of which are on here. Why don't car drivers do as they are bloody told and just shut up and drive.
If a sign says 40 mph, then drive UP to that speed not over.
If a sign says 20 mph, then drive UP to that speed not over.
If the speed cameras catch you then you are bigger fools than God intended and you deserve to be out of pocket.
IT'S NOT DIFFICULT PEOPLE!
Drive correctly, save money and lives. I think they should put the speeding fine up to £50k - which prat would speed then?”