Santa Claus visits the Dutch speed cameras

[Chris]

 

Dozens of Dutch speed cameras were gift-wrapped throughout the country. 

[Truvelo]

We know the perpetrator drives a VW Golf

Seriously though, I remember one here being gift wrapped a few years ago.

[Bryant5493]

Wow! That's funny (lol).


Be well,

Bryant

[english si]

That British one still works (not that it's legally valid though).

Nicer than the normal presents of necklaces that they tend to get.

(note - necklacing is where you get a tyre full of petrol/tire full of gas and burn it while something is wearing it - destroys the speed camera)

[Truvelo]

(note - necklacing is where you get a tyre full of petrol/tire full of gas and burn it while something is wearing it - destroys the speed camera)

Like this.

[Chris]

Yeah they frequently set speed cameras on fire in the Netherlands too...

[Brandon]

Serves them right.  This sort of enforcement is more about revenue than about safety.  Shoot, it's all about revenue.

[Truvelo]

There was a Dutch website called tuftufclub which featured pictures of vandals in action but it went offline years ago.

[Hellfighter]

That's freakin' awesome!

[Chris]

It turned out to be a PR stunt of Go Fast beverages. They gift-wrapped a total of 250 speed cameras throughout the Netherlands. There are 1700 fixed speed cameras in the Netherlands.

[mightyace]

A real present would be if the gift box obscured the camera until the holidays are over!

But, we all know how likely that is!  (A government voluntarily forgoing revenue.  )

[City]

What if the victims who received fines due to the cameras asked Santa to wrap them up for Christmas (obviously covering the lens)?    Driving on a freeway at 1 AM and seeing Santa wrapping up a speed camera? That'd be hilarious! 

[Ian]

Nice, I have always wanted a speed camera as a christmas present!