It looks like someone was upset over a $40 speed camera ticket in Oldtown Laurel. A vandal recently painted the lens cover on both speed cameras installed on 7th Street between Main and Montgomery.
I hope the vandal is caught. I believe that these cameras are always taking pictures on a loop. Maybe we will get lucky and the vandal's picture was taken holding the spray can.
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7th and Main
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Painting over the lens cover is not the answer. Slowing down is the answer! I strongly supported the law to permit speed cameras. Speeding cars on neighborhood streets was the the top constituent complaint when I served on the Laurel City Council. The camera is a much better solution than chewing up the time of an officer with a radar gun. I'd much rather have our cops free to solve more serious crimes.
There are at least three speed camera locations in Laurel. Here on 7th, Cherry Lane near Laurel High and on Dorset Road near Scotchtown Hills Elementary School.
By the way, even police officers are
not exempted from the speed laws and must pay the fine. So let's all be careful out there.
(Hat tip to Mike McLaughlin for the tip.)
