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Paintballs for speeders idea catching on

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Those wonderful folks offering to repaint the automobiles of neighborhood speeders are now onl the Web -- TheAngryNeighbors.blogspot.com -- and on Twitter -- http://twitter.com/AngryNeighbors -- and the message is getting around.

Wired folk from as far away as Raleigh and Oxnard, Calif. have enquired about getting their own warning signs like those that appeared yesterday on Markham Avenue in Duke Park. (See photo below.) And a TV report on the signs is linked from The Drudge Report and CNN's Web front pages.

And even the Durham Police Department has responded. According to TheAngryNeighbors, "They state that 46 hours of police activity resulted in 64 citations being written" in the area near the signs.

Not everyone is amused, though. One nose-out-of-joint paintballer commented in an email to a neighborhood group, "If my vehicle is shot, some heads are gonna roll."

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Jim Wise is a Durham News/N&O reporter and columnist who follows city and county government land-use and neighborhood issues. He's author of "Durham: A Bull City Story" and "Durham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day That Was and More ... "
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