Posted: 11/17/2005 12:06:40 AM EDT
  www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/16/gatso_attack/ Swiss driver attacks Gatso with pick-axe Then throws it off cliff By Lester Haines Published Wednesday 16th November 2005 15:14 GMT We know this will find favour with a large number of Reg readers: an enraged Swiss driver has smashed a speed camera off its mountings with a pick-axe after the Gatso snapped him doing 50mph in a 30mph zone in the Swiss alpine village of La Punt Chamues-ch. Not satified with that, he then ran the offending camera over with his car, drove it up a mountain and chucked it off a cliff, in the process successfully destroying both Gatso and film, Ananova reports. Sadly, low-tech coppers at the scene - using the good old Mark 1 eyeball - clocked the high-altitude vigilante as he dispatched the camera into the void, and he now faces a fine of up to £13k for destruction of public property. |