Who will watch the watchers?
The answer: more watchers. Apparently.
The Lothian and Borders Safety Camera Partnership have a tricky problem. Apparently, people don’t like speed cameras (who’d have thought?), and some of those hardy Scotts have taken to pushing them over, or setting them on fire, in protest. This isn’t quite mass citizen disobedience, unfortunately, as only seven attacks have taken place in three years. Not exactly a popular uprising, then.
Nonetheless, the Lothian and Borders police aren’t happy doing nothing, so they’re considering installing more cameras to monitor the cameras that people have started destroying. Quite what will prevent those people from destroying both cameras, Harry doesn’t know: it’s very nice of the police to provide them with twice as much equipment to destroy though. After all, the bigger one is the more there is to hit, and in this case, the more money they can force the Government to spend on repairs. Marvelous!
Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction. Harry finds it amusing the proverb holds true even for fictions that that are thousands of years old, and that people really should have learned from by now.
Let’s just hope that the bright sparks in in the Lothian and Borders Safety Camera Partnership don’t ever suggest installing cameras to watch the cameras that are watching the cameras…
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