Teenage speed camera hero Beau Jackson punches motorist after claiming he bullied him

A beloved road crusader, known for alerting drivers of upcoming speed cameras, said he was forced to knock a stranger to the ground after the man allegedly bullied him.

Beau Jackson, 17, from NSW’s Central Coast, has made a name for himself parking near mobile cameras with makeshift signs warning unsuspecting motorists about potential speed traps.

He was standing on the side of the road one night when he was confronted by a 53-year-old man who was clearly unimpressed with Beau’s mission.

‘Get the f**k out of here,’ the man is heard saying to the teenager who repeatedly told him ‘don’t touch me’.

‘Who the f**k are you! It’s illegal,’ the older man continues.

‘Get the f**king sign off,’ the man yells.

Footage then shows the man moving towards Beau, before the young man knocks him to the ground.

‘I had to punch him guys. He was trying to attack me,’ Beau says in the video, after telling the man he was putting the signs up to ‘look after the community’.

He later claimed the man had been ‘aggressive’, and started to push him and ‘charge at me’.

‘I’m a passive person, I’m known as a pacifist, I’m not a violent person, I tried to defuse the situation, but he kept coming at me and I had to defend myself,’ Beau told  A Current Affair.  

Beau was confronted by a 53-year-old man who allegedly tried to attack him. Beau knocked him to the ground in ‘self defence’

‘He kept saying it was illegal what I was doing even though it’s not, the cops know it’s not illegal, no one cares about it.’

The man lay motionless for a brief moment as Beau quickly rang the police and an ambulance.

The 53-year-old then got up and fled the scene.

Beau said after showing police the video they deemed his actions were ‘self defence’, and asked which way the man walked off in.

‘I was very polite. I told him to back off like 15 times and he wouldn’t listen and I was starting to worry about my safety,’ the 17-year-old said.

Police said the 53-year-old has been charged with common assault and will face court at a later date.

Beau is known to spend his free time hanging out in locations where he feels cameras are ‘unfairly’ trying to catch people to raise revenue – such as at the bottom of hills, or in places where the speed limit suddenly drops.

Beau is known to spend his free time hanging out in locations where he feels cameras are ‘unfairly’ trying to catch people to raise revenue – such as at the bottom of hills, or in places where the speed limit suddenly drops

Dubbed a national hero and a ‘living legend’, Beau’s fan base has grown to more than 70,000 TikTok followers in recent months as his vigilante videos continue to go viral. 

Motorists passing by often stop to shake his hand, give him a drink and even hand over some cash as thanks for potentially stopping them from copping a fine in the mail.

Beau, who insists he’s never been fined for a speeding offence, agrees motorists who are ‘dramatically’ over the speed limit should be punished.

‘I’m doing it for those who are done four or six kilometres over because they also park at the bottom of a hill,’ he explained.

‘If it was in a school zone or on a stretch of road where people are speeding, I wouldn’t warn anyone.

‘But they are often set up to ping people going a few kilometres over the speed limit at the bottom of a hill and that’s unfair.

‘If they want to save lives, then have signs here warning people, along with signs on the front and back of the car.’

He has checked with the police to ensure what he was doing wasn’t illegal.

‘They think I’m doing the community a service as I’m actually making people slow down,’ Beau added.