We have camera phones, too.

Such appears to be the message behind a new Facebook page where TTC operators are encouraged to turn the camera on their own passengers.

The stated objective of "Toronto Transit Operators Against Public Harassment" is to provide a forum "where Operator’s can give suggestions on how to fight back to the recent photo and video harassment from passengers just looking to make trouble for us. And post photos of your own of passengers breaking the rules.

The vast majority of the photos so far show graffiti — and ‘scratchitti’ — on buses, trains and subway platform walls. Other photos show a coffee cup left on a seat; newspapers scattered on an empty TTC train; and a passenger with his feet up on a seat.

In all, hardly an expose, and a rather paltry rebuttal to the photo of a toll collector caught counting sheep on the job, and, more recently, the video showing a bus driver who has exited his bus mid-route to apparently buy a coffee.

But the page’s rapidly climbing membership (rising by 50 in the span of 30 minutes and topping 500 at time of posting) is indicative of the strong emotions on both sides of the issue.

While the stated objective of the group is to provide "constructive conversation and idea sharing," the page’s message wall has quickly been overtaken by TTC users, most of them disgruntled. Page creator Jack Gajic has since modified the group such that new members must be approved by him.