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Some people want to buy a new house for more space. Some want a change of scenery. Some might even want to get away from nosy neighbours.

But one Calgary family is thinking about moving out of their Glamorgan home to get away from an unexpected nuisance — the Calgary Police Service’s photo radar unit.

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“It’s aggravating,” Anthony Roberts said of unmarked police vehicles parked on his street along Richmond Road S.W. for hours on end. “Every time you look out your window, there’s a black vehicle taking pictures of everything.”

Roberts said police set up radar units in front of his house because of, as one officer put it, the “supreme angle” of the road the view from his house provides.

He compared the constant flashing to “a strobe light going off at a disco” and amounts it to “harassment.”

“It’s just somewhere they’ve identified as a cash cow, and they’re milking this as long as they can,” Roberts said. “It’s nothing against them, I know they’re just doing their job. We’re seriously looking at moving now.”