Toronto speed camera cut down, thrown into pond [Video]

One of the busiest speed cameras in the city has been cut down for a third time and thrown into a pond.

Safe Parkside says the Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) camera near Parkside Drive and Algonquin Avenue was recently cut from its post, dragged into nearby High Park, and dropped into a frozen-over body of water.

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“When I got here, the speed camera was nowhere to be seen, which is a bit different because before they would just cut it and leave it there,” Faraz Gholizadeh, Safe Parkside’s co-chair, told CTV News Toronto in an interview on Monday, adding that the camera was taken down sometime in the early morning hours on Sunday.

“I was able to follow the trail down here where they dragged the camera and dumped it into the duck pond (…) These were very committed vandals.”

It’s the third time in two months that the camera …