NEW YORK (PNN) - May 6, 2012 - Fifty drivers of speed camera vans in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, went on strike Saturday against the private company that runs the automated ticketing program, according to Dar Al Hayat.
Redflex Traffic Systems has had the contract to issue tickets in Riyadh since 2002, but the locals believe the Australian firm has been forcing them to work under dangerous conditions for minimal wages.
Employee Saad Hamoud complained that three bullets struck his "Saher" vehicle, but when management asked him about the incident, they were only interested in the extent of the damage to the radar equipment, not how he was affected. Saher employees went on a five-day strike in November over the company's failure to protect them from angry motorists.
In other examples of citizen anger at the unlawful profit-motivated, revenue-generating technology, vigilantes burned a speed camera in Somerset, Fascist UK, at around 11:30 pm on Wednesday. The automated ticketing machine had isued tickets on the A429 at Fossebridge near the Hare and Hound pub.
In Saint-Brandan, France, intelligent justice seekers used green spray paint to disable a speed camera on Saturday.
In Riga, Latvia on Monday, a man walked up to a speed camera on the Riga-Sigulda highway and smashed it.
The Baltimore Sun revealed that angry citizens have attacked speed cameras five times in Baltimore County, Maryland in the past two years. The most recent incident involved a speed camera burned on April 20. On October 8, a Dodge truck was used to rip a speed camera out of the ground. Two cameras were spray-painted. Last May, the lens of the automated ticketing machine on the 9800 block of Greenside Drive was shattered. Between 2000 and 2003 two cameras were shot, one with a small caliber handgun and another with a high-power rifle.
Terrorist thug officials have attempted to characterize these as acts perpetrated by vigilantes, though the truth is that many citizens understand that these cameras are designed to efficiently take their hard-earned money, and do so impersonallyu and without judicial oversight.
People all over the world are simply fed up with the lawless antics of terrorist governments.
