Popular Rage: How and Why Drivers Vandalize Traffic Police Cameras
- December 15, 2022
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From the first day, the domestic driver did not succeed with photo and video recording cameras: as soon as the drivers realized that the boxes on the posts
From the first day, the domestic driver did not succeed with photo and video recording cameras: as soon as the drivers realized that the boxes on the posts were closely watching their every violation, the latter immediately became enemies – well, do not give yourself the debt! And traditionally we deal with opponents with strictness. How exactly do motorists take revenge on their “big brother,” says the AvtoVzglyad portal.
The first cameras for photo and video recording of traffic violations appeared on Russian streets and highways almost 15 years ago – in 2008. Subsequently, they could only correct speed limit violations, moreover very mediocre. But even this turned out to be enough to immediately dislike them: after all, there is no patrol, but there is a fine. Yes, and one that you can’t solve “your own way”, straight to the savings bank.
Having determined the main reason for the emergence of a new line of expenditure of the family budget, the domestic driver immediately took matters into his own hands: no, the option of breaking the system, breaking traffic rules less often, was not considered. They chose a different path: it was decided to eliminate the said enemy by all improvised methods. And the good old snowball was the first to go, who, with a dexterous thrower, consistently hit the eye and closed the “eye”.
Assessing the scale of hooliganism – and this was exactly it – the cameramen began to equip the cameras with a heated hood – a hood that quickly coped with not only the effects of snowfall, but also traces of popular anger. However, there was no real damage to the building: the device was easy to repair and the bully was not immediately punished.
The next stage is undoubtedly the waves of hatred for the “tripods”. Then they turned around like this: hired workers who had to put cameras in a strictly defined place, monitor their safety and clear them every three hours, they called enemies of the people and just started beating. The complexes themselves were broken, beaten, thrown into the swamp and even taken away: some specimens equipped with a beacon were found in the middle of the logs. Hooliganism developed into property damage and theft, but that didn’t stop anyone.
The tripods caused such anger among the drivers – often rightly so, as no one did any explanatory work, and sometimes there was outright randomness on the ground – that it was miraculously decided to eliminate them. Or rather, replace it with ordinary cars – the same “giraffes” and “hoods” that can regularly be found on the streets and highways.
Theoretically, cars are no different from tripods: same cameras, same hired drivers, same result. But unification in a single color, which visually means “state membership”, decided the situation. Yes, and “sticking” a car in a distant bush, “forgetting” about the requirements for installation or “shifting” a little from the place established by law will also not work. However, the damage to the cameras did not stop after that.
Any hunting season or just an autumn-spring aggravation leads shooting to start with the cameras. Someone uses a paintball gun, someone – airsoft, “bullet” with metal balls. But there are also quite “gunfire” situations: regularly, even in the region “near the capital” Moscow, complexes are destroyed by a real bullet itself.
Accuracy, it should be noted, sniper. There is no doubt that the use of hunting and military weapons on the roads is a serious violation of the law, but this does not stop the shooters. Cameras “leak” periodically, these are not isolated cases. The people’s avengers forget that their “justifiable anger” can result in a large fine, a suspended sentence, corrective labor and a real “criminal case”. The camera costs from one and a half million rubles and is often state property.
Damage to cameras is the most stupid and useless way to ‘fight the system’. Firstly, it makes no sense: a disabled complex immediately reports problems to the headquarters, a group of repairmen leaves for the place and carries out recovery procedures. Is it worth going to jail for four hours of camera inactivity for photo and video shooting?
Secondly, the number of complexes cannot be reduced in this way: operators have huge stocks, import substitution has already been established, so the only achievement is an additional bill for a private company. And finally, thirdly, the only way to avoid fines and to reduce the number of cameras on the road is to reduce the number of violations and thus the number of accidents. Then, and only then, will the cameras be removed from the posts and no new ones will be installed.
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The first cameras for photo and video recording of traffic violations appeared on Russian streets and highways almost 15 years ago – in 2008. Subsequently, they could only correct speed limit violations, moreover very mediocre. But even this turned out to be enough to immediately dislike them: after all, there is no patrol, but there is a fine. Yes, and one that you can’t solve “your own way”, straight to the savings bank.
Having determined the main reason for the emergence of a new line of expenditure of the family budget, the domestic driver immediately took matters into his own hands: no, the option of breaking the system, breaking traffic rules less often, was not considered. They chose a different path: it was decided to eliminate the said enemy by all improvised methods. And the good old snowball was the first to go, who, with a dexterous thrower, consistently hit the eye and closed the “eye”.
Assessing the scale of hooliganism – and this was exactly it – the cameramen began to equip the cameras with a heated hood – a hood that quickly coped with not only the effects of snowfall, but also traces of popular anger. However, there was no real damage to the building: the device was easy to repair and the bully was not immediately punished.
The next stage is undoubtedly the waves of hatred for the “tripods”. Then they turned around like this: hired workers who had to put cameras in a strictly defined place, monitor their safety and clear them every three hours, they called enemies of the people and just started beating. The complexes themselves were broken, beaten, thrown into the swamp and even taken away: some specimens equipped with a beacon were found in the middle of the logs. Hooliganism developed into property damage and theft, but that didn’t stop anyone.
The tripods caused such anger among the drivers – often rightly so, as no one did any explanatory work, and sometimes there was outright randomness on the ground – that it was miraculously decided to eliminate them. Or rather, replace it with ordinary cars – the same “giraffes” and “hoods” that can regularly be found on the streets and highways.
Theoretically, cars are no different from tripods: same cameras, same hired drivers, same result. But unification in a single color, which visually means “state membership”, decided the situation. Yes, and “sticking” a car in a distant bush, “forgetting” about the requirements for installation or “shifting” a little from the place established by law will also not work. However, the damage to the cameras did not stop after that.
Any hunting season or just an autumn-spring aggravation leads shooting to start with the cameras. Someone uses a paintball gun, someone – airsoft, “bullet” with metal balls. But there are also quite “gunfire” situations: regularly, even in the region “near the capital” Moscow, complexes are destroyed by a real bullet itself.
Accuracy, it should be noted, sniper. There is no doubt that the use of hunting and military weapons on the roads is a serious violation of the law, but this does not stop the shooters. Cameras “leak” periodically, these are not isolated cases. The people’s avengers forget that their “justifiable anger” can result in a large fine, a suspended sentence, corrective labor and a real “criminal case”. The camera costs from one and a half million rubles and is often state property.
Damage to cameras is the most stupid and useless way to ‘fight the system’. Firstly, it makes no sense: a disabled complex immediately reports problems to the headquarters, a group of repairmen leaves for the place and carries out recovery procedures. Is it worth going to jail for four hours of camera inactivity for photo and video shooting?
Secondly, the number of complexes cannot be reduced in this way: operators have huge stocks, import substitution has already been established, so the only achievement is an additional bill for a private company. And finally, thirdly, the only way to avoid fines and to reduce the number of cameras on the road is to reduce the number of violations and thus the number of accidents. Then, and only then, will the cameras be removed from the posts and no new ones will be installed.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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