Street Racers' Ultimate Nightmare
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I love it!
It's a spectacular punishment, sure, but all it'll do is move street racing deeper underground and make Joe Public feel good. It won't stop anything.
Typical stoopid politicians, judges, courts,,,,your gov't.
What is the point to destroying anything? guns, cars,......
So, how much are the taxpayers paying to have the confiscated property destroyed?
Strip it for parts and sell it at an auction. Bring in some revenue needed to help fund wasteful gov't spending.
Nearsighted fools!
What is the point to destroying anything? guns, cars,......
So, how much are the taxpayers paying to have the confiscated property destroyed?
Strip it for parts and sell it at an auction. Bring in some revenue needed to help fund wasteful gov't spending.
Nearsighted fools!
What is the point to destroying anything? guns, cars,......
Psychological shock value to the participants,and as a symbolic victory gesture to every else who is effected by this activity.
Psychological shock value to the participants,and as a symbolic victory gesture to every else who is effected by this activity.
In Canada (at least in Ontario) they are extending this power to seize and destroy cars that have been modified so they are capable of being in a street race. Even if you don't race your car, if it is modified so that it can race, or looks like it can, the police have the power to seize and destroy it so that they prevent a street race. Don't know how long that one will fly....
There needs to be a safe regulated venue for racing but the problem is the drivers will still occasionally crash their cars. Crushing the cars doesn't solve anything.
It's yet another example of blaming the environment when the cause of the problem is the nut behind the wheel. Cars do not cause people to race. The next street racer will say "the car was so powerful, it made me race", and the blame will fall on the car company.
This society is sliding into the dark ages a little bit at a time. When you stray from reality, reality will bite back to remind you.
This society is sliding into the dark ages a little bit at a time. When you stray from reality, reality will bite back to remind you.
To understand that story, cars with stolen engines/transmissions were the only ones crushed. If I had, say, the high hp Civic motor, I'd be seriously annoyed that everyone was after my car, to steal the engine, to stick it in their beater, with their plates matching their VIN and noone ever noticing. Am thrilled detectives are looking over these rides to make sure numbers match. The story is not complete but I presume an attempt will be made to get initial victims their goods back.
Personally I would have given the original engine owner the entire street racing car, allowing him or a 3rd party mechanic the leftover bits to set the theft victim right.
Personally I would have given the original engine owner the entire street racing car, allowing him or a 3rd party mechanic the leftover bits to set the theft victim right.
Well, that's a bit totalitarian, don't you think? Thought Police in action! Like the 'Hate Crimes' laws in the USA.
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I'm more interested in Mia.
She's gained a bit in the past 10 years ..but no worse for wear.
Mia in 1997
I imagine that I'd do something like this and I was a judge. It would satisfy my warped sense of adding insult to injury in the most "getting in there and twisting" manner. I want them to be mad about it.
A friend of mine had a problem with his stepson. He had a motorcycle that he'd ride on the street (no license). He'd go great distances using railroad tracks ..but only used them to get to more rural areas where he could (or so he thought) drive on the roads without getting caught. He told him that he was going to destroy the bike the next time he found him driving it on the street. He got caught ..my friend took it to the scrap yard and made him watch as the guy took a torch to it. The scrap guy offered that he could get decent money for the parts ..but my friend insisted that he destroy it. It's better than using a baseball bat to make your point.
She's gained a bit in the past 10 years ..but no worse for wear.
Mia in 1997
I imagine that I'd do something like this and I was a judge. It would satisfy my warped sense of adding insult to injury in the most "getting in there and twisting" manner. I want them to be mad about it.
A friend of mine had a problem with his stepson. He had a motorcycle that he'd ride on the street (no license). He'd go great distances using railroad tracks ..but only used them to get to more rural areas where he could (or so he thought) drive on the roads without getting caught. He told him that he was going to destroy the bike the next time he found him driving it on the street. He got caught ..my friend took it to the scrap yard and made him watch as the guy took a torch to it. The scrap guy offered that he could get decent money for the parts ..but my friend insisted that he destroy it. It's better than using a baseball bat to make your point.
Can't they sell these cars? It seems like an enormous waste to destroy things just because a criminal owned it.
It won't. Attorney General Bryant sounded like a blathering idiot on that one. When it comes down to it, they're going to have to learn to punish the offenders and not the cars. Are they going to crush all the Ferraris, Corvettes, Porshes, etc? Are they going to crush every car that does 0-60 in 5 seconds? 6 seconds? 7 seconds?
A couple of rich-kid street racers recently killed a taxi-driver in Ontario. They got 12 months of house arrest or something minimal like that. Even if their cars were crushed, they could go out after their licenses are reinstated, buy any fast "stock" car, and be right back at it. But it will be okay if they kill another person as long as they don't put lowering springs and a strut tower brace on the car. Does anybody else see a problem here?
It won't. Attorney General Bryant sounded like a blathering idiot on that one. When it comes down to it, they're going to have to learn to punish the offenders and not the cars. Are they going to crush all the Ferraris, Corvettes, Porshes, etc? Are they going to crush every car that does 0-60 in 5 seconds? 6 seconds? 7 seconds?
A couple of rich-kid street racers recently killed a taxi-driver in Ontario. They got 12 months of house arrest or something minimal like that. Even if their cars were crushed, they could go out after their licenses are reinstated, buy any fast "stock" car, and be right back at it. But it will be okay if they kill another person as long as they don't put lowering springs and a strut tower brace on the car. Does anybody else see a problem here?
there is... it's called the local drag strip.. the "big one" around here, New England Dragway has basically what you're asking for every wednesday night.. not expensive either.
All the safe racing venues in the world aren't going to stop kids killing themselves in hotted up cars.
Bathurst racetrack is 65km from here. The car club there has hill climbs, sprints, 1/8 mile drags, motorkhanas etc., and we still have rubber marks all up and down my street, not half a mile from the Police station.
I think we were a tad more responsible in my youth, in that we played up out in the sticks, and not in the suburbs like they do now.
My state brought in confiscation laws a few years ago, and on the whole, I support them
Bathurst racetrack is 65km from here. The car club there has hill climbs, sprints, 1/8 mile drags, motorkhanas etc., and we still have rubber marks all up and down my street, not half a mile from the Police station.
I think we were a tad more responsible in my youth, in that we played up out in the sticks, and not in the suburbs like they do now.
My state brought in confiscation laws a few years ago, and on the whole, I support them
Crush it with the offenders inside. In fact, crush it with the whole family inside and then nerve-gas their entire hometown. Tough, but fair.
When they crush the car does it effect the scrap price with a body inside?
Just to point out the obvious metaphor of crushing v crashing.
If the person providing alcohol at a party can be held responsibe for the deaths caused by a drunk driver, then surely the car dealership should be held responsible for street racing deaths. If this fails, we'll have to go after the oil companies for providing the energy used in street racing. After that, we imprison the parents who raised the kid street racer.
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