Another distraction for the motorist: looking out for these (BBC, via Boing Boing).
Smart Cars, fitted with 3.6m (12′) camera masts, are being deployed at road junctions to film drivers who are, by doing anything at all other than concentrating utterly on the brakelights of the car in front, rendering themselves liable to a fine.
The one thing they won’t be doing with the mast up is driving anywhere; in a Range Rover, perhaps, but not in a Smart Car. Whether the camera continues to run with the mast down I don’t know, but it would if I’d installed it.
Another brick in the wall.
A few strong chappies could turn one over, or angle-grind the shaft thingy off the top, and run off.
Electronic search terms;
angle-grinders; builders; brickies; liberty; scumbags; cars; private-public-partnerships; slum clearance; toxteth; hoodies; white working class; anger; sneaks; MI5; MI6;
“Stupid boy.”
[Captain Mainwaring]
Decoy the coppers away from the car; a bait of doughnuts often does the trick.
Steal the car.
Remove the camera equipment.
Put one of those custom-van hemispherical plastic bubble windows over the hole in the roof.
Sell the car (“Limited edition, innit.”).
Play with the camera equiment. Resist the temptation to fit it to one’s own car and to use it to peer through the first-floor window of the local police station’s squad-room. They will be expecting this.