We do not endorse any of the following actions. In real life, revenge fantasies rarely go the way you want, and usually just make things worse. Still, sometimes the act of vigilante retribution is doled out in such a clever manner, it's hard to call it anything but "justice." Or at least, "hilarious."

6 Man Turns the Police Department's Own Website into a Traffic Camera Protest

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Speed control cameras are a pretty controversial issue, not least because getting a retroactive speeding ticket by mail is the stuff swear words are made of. Still, at the end of the day, most people just pay the fine and move on with their lives. Computer network designer Brian McCrary of Bluff City, Tennessee, was not most people.

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For one thing, he has a much larger monitor than most people.

The Bluff City area already had a reputation for using surveillance cameras as speed traps to collect revenue, so when McCrary got a belated ticket from one in 2010, he was damn well going to say a word or two. McCrary went to the police department's website to locate a non-emergency phone number to give someone a piece of his mind, and he made a curious find: a warning message saying that the police department's domain was just about to expire.

Imagine the situation: A computer network professional is fuming about a questionable ticket dealt by the local police department, then unexpectedly finds out that said police department's website is about to be up for grabs. As perfect moments go, it must've been a pretty sweet one.

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"Ticket this."

Within a few days, the BCPD's website mysteriously stopped being all policey and began displaying information about the evils of speed cameras, including the area's specific camera locations and how to avoid them.

McCrary, the site's proud new owner, created and linked to a number of articles highlighting just how much money these cameras were taking in and how said money was distributed. When it became apparent that 50 percent of the revenue went to the company that sold the cameras, it didn't take long for the public to take interest.