Teen pranksters con speed cameras

Teenaged pranksters in the United States have found a unique, and expensive, way of exacting revenge on teachers and fellow students.

The mischievous and tech-savvy students in Maryland have been replicating original licence plates by printing fakes on glossy paper in a font similar to that used on the real plates, according to Maryland's The Sentinel newspaper.

They then stick them over their own plates and purposely speed past recently installed speed cameras, ensuring the object of their torment an unwelcome - and unearned - speeding fine in the mail.

The students are reportedly even finding cars of a similar make or an exact match to the car owned by their targeted victim.

A parent of a student at the school told the newspaper the students have dubbed the prank the "Speed Camera Pimping Game".

A speeding fine in the Montgomery County, where the speed limit is 35mph (56km/h) in residential areas, costs the car owner at least US$40 (NZ$69).

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