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Toronto's most notorious speed camera sawed down by vandals for the umpteenth time

Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) cameras in and around Toronto are quite prone to being toppled or defaced by angry motorists and passersby who see them as a symbol of a police state, but there's one device in particular that has been destroyed not once, but no less than five in the last few months.The Parside Drive camera has been blinded by spray paint, hacked down multiple times, and even at one point tossed into a pond in nearby High Park.And, despite the City's efforts to keep the camera in operation — it being Toronto's most productive, raking in more than $7 million in fines over three years in operation — people just keep on putting it out of commission, including again this week.Safe Parkside, a grassroots group that has long pushed for better safety measures along the north-south roadway, shared the news and their frustration on Friday morning."The Parkside Drive speed camera was just cut down for a...


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