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Toronto’s most prolific speed camera was decapitated again last night for the seventh time in 11 months. A º£½ÇÉçÇø¹ÙÍøPolice Service spokesperson confirmed a report of the incident and said they are investigating.

Posts on Reddit show the camera lying beside the pole in the grass. The incident comes days after The Star first reported footage of the fifth time it had been cut down in May.

The footage was captured by a trail cam put up by Richard Penner, who said he’s a concerned citizen who decided to take surveillance matters into his own hands.

“I jokingly told my friends I was setting up a detective agency and I was going to solve these Batman-style problems ... the city can’t handle it, so they go to this vigilante justice to solve the matter,” said Penner, 44, who works as a software developer.

The Parkside Drive speed camera is the city’s most prolific, issuing over 70,000 tickets and over $8 million in fines since it was installed in April 2022. It has also become a symbol and target of people’s rage against speed cameras, as it has now been cut down seven times since last November.

It was last replaced on August 11th. Verra Mobility, the company contracted to maintain and repair the speed cameras, have 30 business days to replace it.

TPS has said they are investigating the incidents, and even placed a surveillance camera 100 feet away on a Hydro Pole after the fifth time the camera was replaced, but never released footage and have never released any suspect information on the perpetrators of what has now become Toronto’s most watched case of serial vandalism.