By Leftlane Staff
Thursday, Aug 10th, 2006 @ 2:44 pm

A desperate motorist tried to escape a speeding fine by blowing up the roadside camera that photographed him, a British court heard Wednesday. According to the Daily Mail, he destroyed the device using Thermite, a mixture of powdered aluminium metal and iron oxide which reacts explosively and causes intense heat when ignited. Pictures recovered from the camera hard disk show Moore’s van pulling up and later ‘sparks flying’ as it burns. [via Drudge]

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