Garden gnomes are all about safety and though we rarely come across vehicles in the woods and gardens, apparently some of us have been put into service to help alert motorists to speed traps. I would rather support safety than try to foil the Garda, but there you are …
South African police officials are up in arms about a website that ridicules the secretive use of speed cameras throughout the country. The site, speedtraps.co.za, offers a forum for users to discuss speed trap locations in each region of the country, similar to the National Motorists Association’s Speed Trap Exchange in the US. Speedtrap.co.za’s gallery also offers photographs of camouflaged speed cameras, shirtless speed trap operators and — most offensively for the police — a garden gnome placed atop a speed camera in Pietermaritzburg, a town in KwaZulu-Natal.
Read the wee article.