Apparently, some people do not like Maryland's speeding cameras, at least
judging by the fact that they have vandalized those cameras on multiple
occasions, setting one on fire and shooting another with a gun. A man in
Howard County apparently shot marbles at one this summer. There are a
handful of other incidents as well.
The state's can't-make-this-up response to problems with camera vandalism?
More cameras. To monitor the cameras. Really.
One also has to wonder about the logical
end point of this approach. If someone shoots marbles or bullets at
one of the new camera-monitoring cameras, will the state follow up
by installing a third layer of cameras, to watch the cameras that
were supposed to be watching the speed cameras? And what if someone
destroys those? How many layers of expensive camera watching
cameras will it take for the plan to be cost effective? This does
not seem like a money saving plan.
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