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title: "Watch an English Grandma Slow Down Traffic with a Hair Dryer"
description: "\"If they don't like it, that's tough.\""
date: "2017-06-08"
modified: "2019-07-30"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/11284/watch-an-english-grandma-slow-down-traffic-with-a-hair-dryer"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "BBC"
  - "england"
  - "Great Britain"
  - "hair dryer"
  - "speeding"
  - "uk"
  - "United Kingdom"
  - "video"
  - "vigilante justice"
  - "Watch This"
---

# Watch an English Grandma Slow Down Traffic with a Hair Dryer

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Nottinghamshire woman Jean Brooks got so fed up with speeding on her street that she took the law into her own hands. This 64-year-old vigilante has taken to impersonating a police officer by pointing a hair dryer at speeding vehicles like a radar gun. No uniform, no badge, just a lady pointing a hair dryer at traffic. The craziest part? It works.

Check out the video that got 12 million views in under 24 hours.

"When you've got cars and bikes going \[speeding car and bike sounds\] all up and down the road...it had to stop," [Brooks told *BBC News*,](<https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-40136665/nottinghamshire-woman-gives-drivers-hairdryer-treatment>) "And children now are safe." Brooks reached out to BBC News after seeing a report on a rowdy biker gang saying they go down her road all the time and she’s come up with a solution.

“I’ve never seen so many people’s brake lights go on,” Brooks said of her crime-fighting methodology, “and all it is is a hair dryer. If they don’t like it, that’s tough.”

Shockingly, [this isn’t the first time](<https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-39063797>) this exact method of slowing down traffic has been attempted in the UK in 2017. Back in February, some Scottish civilians grabbed their hair dryers, donned some authoritative high-visibility vests, and went around pointing [hair dryers](<https://www.dontwasteyourmoney.com/best-hair-dryer>) at speeding vehicles in their little village of Hopeman.

In an interview with the [*Nottingham Post*](<https://www.nottinghampost.com/meet-the-woman-who-became-an-internet-sensation-for-her-hairdryer-speed-gun/story-30369681-detail/story.html>), Brooks hilariously makes fun of guys showing off saying, “They come up on their scooters and quadbikes showing off to the sixth form girls, acting like a male bird of paradise. It's all, 'look no hands' but it will soon be 'look, no teeth'.” Translation: “sixth form” is a type of school with students typically aged 16-19 and a “quadbike” is an ATV.

So, if you’re in the UK, think twice about speeding through a quiet little neighborhood lest you get a hair dryer pointed at you by someone’s grandma.

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