February 9, 2008
Two Austrian teenagers have been fined 75,000 pounds for hacking down and burying a roadside speed camera, according to Ananova.
Peter Hochstacher and Thomas Moebel, both 19, were snapped by the speed camera in the town of Lustenau in Austria.
They used a pair of axes and a saw they had with them in their car to chop it down. Then they buried it in a nearby field.
But the box was found by a local farmer as he ploughed his land and police who examined it found pictures of the pair on the camera inside.
Both later confessed to tearing down the device.
A local court said the fine would cover the cost of replacing the machine.
