A man has divided Aussies after confronting a mobile speed camera operator and calling out his ‘unfair’ tactic. 

Calum Fentie was walking along Trafalgar Avenue, in Umina Beach on NSW’s Central Coast, on Friday when he spotted a ‘mobile speed camera ahead’ sign.

In a video shared to TikTok, Mr Fentie filmed himself walking past the sign and towards the worker sitting in the mobile speed camera vehicle. 

Mr Fentie was not impressed with the placement of the warning sign and added the operator was ‘cosily tucked away’ behind parked cars ready to fine motorists for accidentally going five to 10km over the speed limit. 

Mr Fentie approached the mobile speed camera vehicle to have a ‘chat’ with the operator and question him about his ‘unfair’ sign placement. 

‘What’s going on here? Handing out some tickets are ya?’ Mr Fentie said. 

‘I noticed you’re all cosily tucked away back here. How do you expect anyone to see you? 

‘Don’t you think that’s a bit unfair that you have those signs posted up on the footpath?’

The operator replied the sign was ‘not on the footpath’, as it was placed on the nature strip. 

Dissatisfied with the operator’s reply, Mr Fentie asked: ‘How do you expect anyone to see them when they’re tucked behind parked cars?’ 

The operator explained he had placed the sign on the nature strip before the vehicles were parked on the road. 

‘Right, so now that there’s parked cars there you just leave them there for no one to see them. That’s a bit of a s*** go,’ Mr Fentie fired back. 

Mr Fentie suggested the operator move the warning sign, to which the operator replied: ‘Then I’ll spend all day getting in and out’.  

‘Surely that’s just the bare minimum to do your job properly,’ Mr Fentie snapped back. 

‘Instead of robbing hard-earned taxpayers of their money, don’t you reckon bud?’

As Mr Fentie continued, the operator rolled-up the window and drove away from the area. 

Mr Fentie then told a passing pedestrian that the operator had driven away because ‘he couldn’t answer for himself’, labelling the worker an ‘a**hole’. 

Callum Fentie filmed himself confronting the mobile speed camera operator, questioning him on his 'unfair' tactics

Callum Fentie filmed himself confronting the mobile speed camera operator, questioning him on his ‘unfair’ tactics

Social media users slammed Mr Fentie’s behaviour, with many claiming the mobile speed camera operator was ‘just doing his job’. 

‘Hey mate, he’s only doing his job. Just do the right thing and you won’t get caught. Anyone that’s speeding deserves to be caught,’ one person commented. 

‘Let him do his job and save lives, if you stick to the speed limit then there are no fines imposed. Pretty simple,’ a second person wrote. 

A third added: ‘Why do they need to even warn you that there’s a mobile speed camera ahead anyway? You shouldn’t be going over the limit to start with! Tosser’.  

A fourth chimed: ‘Why do people get angry at people trying to save lives?’, while another wrote: ‘Maybe don’t speed then? Problem solved’. 

However, others defended Mr Fentie for confronting the operator over his tactics. 

‘For everyone saying he’s doing his job. He should do his job properly and place the signs somewhere visible,’ one person wrote. 

‘Good on you bro for exposing him. It use to be about safety, but now it’s just money revenue,’ a second added. 

A third chimed: ‘Not all heroes wear capes’.  

Social media users slammed Mr Fentie's behaviour, with many claiming the mobile speed camera operator was 'just doing his job' and that people should stop speeding

Social media users slammed Mr Fentie’s behaviour, with many claiming the mobile speed camera operator was ‘just doing his job’ and that people should stop speeding

Mobile speed camera vehicles in NSW are equipped to carry portable warning signs in a reversal of the previous state government’s decision to remove the signs in 2020

Warning signs must be displayed during enforcement, including a retractable rooftop sign, two portable signs placed on approach to every mobile speed camera vehicle and one after.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said he wanted ‘an end to the secrecy’ with motorists having clear warning signs ahead of speed cameras to remind them to slow down.

‘I would rather people slow down in the first place than receive a fine in the mail two weeks after they committed the offence,’ Premier Chris Minns said at the time.

Mr Minns said the former government went from collecting about $4million a year in low-range speeding fines to about $45million during one financial year.

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