Two Austrian teenagers have been fined £75,000 for hacking down and burying a roadside speed camera.

Both 19, the men were snapped by the camera speeding in the town of Lustenau in Austria.

They used a pair of axes and a saw they had with them in their car to chop it down and then buried it in a nearby field.

The box was found by a local farmer as he ploughed his land and police who examined it found pictures of the pair on the camera inside and they later confessed to tearing down the device.

The fine would cover the cost of replacing the machine.
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