It’s Rude to Point

Motorists in Germany have been warned to stop making nasty gestures to traffic cameras. It’s not that the camera is likely to be offended, but a court in Bavaria has ruled that such gestures are addressed to police officers, not the camera equipment, and thus offenders are guilty of “offending the police.” The court ruled in the case of an unnamed motorist who claims he didn’t know the camera was turned on. “But the video footage proves the opposite, showing the defendant looking at the video camera, raising his left arm and holding out his middle finger close to the windshield,” said a spokesman familiar with the case. (Reuters) ...Just scraping a bug off the windscreen, officer.