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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...People don't like the Big Brother mentality," explains senator Jean-Marie Dedecker, a Flemish conservative. And not just in Belgium. Some 30 cameras are attacked every year in the Netherlands. In the U.K., Motorists Against Detection says it's destroyed hundreds. The mother of such crusades is the Tuf-tuf Club. Harald Kolijn, 33, from Helmond in the southern Netherlands, started it as a joke in 2000 with a friend. It's since mushroomed into a Europe-wide army claiming 20,000 motorists who share tips on radar-detection devices and speed traps. Kolijn argues that the devices penalize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driven To Destruction | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

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