Forget Google's Street View - Transport for London is the new black when it comes to privacy-busting surveillance black ops, if this live traffic camera image captured yesterday is anything to go by:

We're not quite sure what's going on here and how it affects the flow of traffic to and from Twickenham Bridge, but we reckon it might be a bit of this...

...and this... ...possibly leading to this:

Consider yourselves duly alerted. ®

Bootnote

Thanks to Ross Urquhart for the tip-off.

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