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A prankster has been filmed climbing into the back of a speed camera – before flashing passers-by with his phone.
The stunt was filmed in the early hours of Thursday morning (August 19) in Towyn outside the Lyons Winkups Holiday Park, North Wales Live reports.
John Westlake spotted the speed camera while waiting for a takeaway pizza.
The 38-year-old says he thought it would be ‘a funny way of killing some time’ while he and his wife Sarah-Jane waited for their grub.
The video, which has been widely shared and viewed more than 17,000 times on Facebook, shows him flashing passing vehicles with his mobile phone while sat inside the camera’s casing.
Cars can be seen slowing down after being flashed, much to the couple’s amusement.
Joiner John said: “We were waiting outside for our pizzas when I noticed a hole in the back of the speed camera.
“At that point I thought it would be a funny way of killing some time to climb up and flash the passing cars to see if they’d slow down.”
John and Sarah-Jane, from Wirral, were holidaying at the caravan park with their two youngest children and John’s mother.
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Once inside the speed camera, John says he began to flash ‘everyone who was going past, not just people in the cars’.
“I flashed one person who went by in a mobility scooter and told them to slow down,” he said.
“I just took a run-up and managed to climb in. I was quite surprised the next day, when I saw the speed camera, that I had managed it to be honest.
The couple say they have received many messages and friend requests since posting the video, which is threatening to go viral.
“We were just having a laugh really,” John added.
“Every car I flashed slowed down afterwards – it kept us entertained when we were waiting for our food.
“I think people relate to it because no one likes speed cameras.”
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