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A blossoming civil disobedience scheme is dividing residents in Staten Island. A shadowy group calling itself the Staten Island Beautification Squad has affixed bouquets of fake flowers to the front of speed cameras in the New York borough to try to prevent island residents from picking up more speeding tickets. In an interview with the New York Post published Jan. 21, city officials said they have found 14 obstructed traffic cameras, each bearing a calling card from the anonymous group. Local talk radio host and City Council candidate Frank Morano told the Staten Island Advance he sympathizes with the anti-­camera vandals. “I’d be lying if I said I don’t understand the frustration that’s driving this so-called beautification movement,” he said. “At some point we have to ask, ‘Are these cameras really about safety, or are they just another way to milk every last dime from hard-working New Yorkers?’” Other New Yorkers decried the lawlessness, however. A city Department of Transportation spokesperson pleaded with citizens not to tamper with the speed cameras and said police will investigate and hold the perpetrators accountable for “jeopardizing public safety.”