View Full Version : Two cars crushed for street racing in Canada
79CamaroDiva
06-18-2006, 09:33 PM
They should do this in the states. If you're found street racing, your car not only gets impounded, but gets crushed. i know there was something about a town doing it in Cali, it needs to be country-wide.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060615/street_racing_060615/20060615?hub=Canada
Brando56894
06-18-2006, 09:38 PM
haha, what a great way to rid the world of ricers
BigAls87Z28
06-18-2006, 11:35 PM
Neg, total over abuse of the law. I dont condone street racing, but crushing a car is no way an answer. Thats like killing someone who shop lifts.
qwikz28
06-18-2006, 11:41 PM
Neg, total over abuse of the law. I dont condone street racing, but crushing a car is no way an answer. Thats like killing someone who shop lifts.
or chopping off their hand, which is still done in some parts of the world
bad64chevelle
06-18-2006, 11:48 PM
or chopping off their hand, which is still done in some parts of the world
:gay:
qwikz28
06-18-2006, 11:51 PM
:gay:
what exactly is gay? the fact that people still chop off hands or you?
bad64chevelle
06-18-2006, 11:55 PM
i dont know im extremely tired and it looked like he was puting his hand out to get chopped off...okay ban me now.
JK please dont.
Squirrel
06-19-2006, 12:01 AM
meh...i dont exactly condone street racing, but it happens...old people steal **** too
bad64chevelle
06-19-2006, 12:03 AM
:werd: im no angel when it comes to having raced on the street, but recently I have mellowed out and have a new view on it. Not saying itll never happen again, but I will think twice about it.
unstable bob gable
06-19-2006, 12:15 AM
I think it is OK if they crush ricers. In fact they should crush the rice boy along with the car! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!
Brando56894
06-19-2006, 01:47 AM
:funny: UBG strikes again...
ok, the 2 cars that were crushed were "stopped in seperate instances" and both seized because they had been "heavily modified for street racing"... thats the problem, they can impound for MODIFICATIONS, not just if you are caught in the act of street racing. Thats where i dont agree. plus they dont have to crush them, seizing them is enough. The cars should then be given JUNK titles and be sent to be dismantled at liscensed auto parts recyling yards. thats just my opinion. But my point is, if i build my car for the track, and i take it on the street and get stopped, (if this law ever made it around here) they could justify taking my car, which is BS.
foff667
06-19-2006, 07:43 AM
yes, please rid the world of all honda's :lol:
lol, that's kinda funny, but its ridiculous. i think there are at least a few people here that have raced one or two times on the street. imagine getting caught and having your car crushed. sickening.
shane27
06-19-2006, 09:34 AM
They should do this in the states. If you're found street racing, your car not only gets impounded, but gets crushed. i know there was something about a town doing it in Cali, it needs to be country-wide.
are u serious?
me and vin diesel don't approve.
Savage_Messiah
06-19-2006, 10:23 AM
Neg, total over abuse of the law. I dont condone street racing, but crushing a car is no way an answer. Thats like killing someone who shop lifts.
:stupid:
79CamaroDiva
06-19-2006, 10:53 AM
apparently none of you have ever lost a friend to a street race..
If they started crushing cars for street racing, people might actually stop doing it. Impounds and points dont work. No one wants to see their hard earned money get crushed. I'm not agreeing with the 'modified for street racing' part of the article, but if they can prove you were racing someone else, take the ****ing car and crush it like a soda can.
apparently none of you have ever lost a friend to a street race..
If they started crushing cars for street racing, people might actually stop doing it. Impounds and points dont work. No one wants to see their hard earned money get crushed. I'm not agreeing with the 'modified for street racing' part of the article, but if they can prove you were racing someone else, take the ****ing car and crush it like a soda can.
lets also shoot all drunk drivers, cuz they kill people too. and dont give me crap about "i only had one beer" u drink and drive u die. how about that? we can also wipe out drug addicts, cuz they are no good too, they steal and if they drive under the influence they're just as dangerous as drunk drivers.
its pointless... ohh and i can go on and on.
Squirrel
06-19-2006, 12:03 PM
more tracks FTW :w00t:
Untamed
06-19-2006, 12:11 PM
lets also shoot all drunk drivers, cuz they kill people too. and dont give me crap about "i only had one beer" u drink and drive u die. how about that? we can also wipe out drug addicts, cuz they are no good too, they steal and if they drive under the influence they're just as dangerous as drunk drivers.
its pointless... ohh and i can go on and on.
You're comparing the execution of a person to crushing a car. I think if drunk drivers got THEIR cars crushed, hey.. certainly cant drink and drive then.
I'm of a mixed mind concerning this one. I'd rather not see (or get hit by) any street races, so doing something to convince people not to do it is a good thing. Maybe the government could take some of the money they use to enforce traffic laws, and reimburse tracks for 2 free days of racing a month, it might just cut down the number of street races. The impromptu ones will still happen, but the grudge matches could be taken to the track at least.
Crushing cars certainly sends a powerful message - hopefully it will drastically reduce the number of street races. However having your car crushed, after so much money, seems like abuse as Big Al said.
Savage_Messiah
06-19-2006, 12:12 PM
more tracks FTW :w00t:
:stupid:
I was thinking the other day that it would be ****in SWEET if they put one in each county (or most of them), with island, etown and atco taking care of their respective counties... yea... would be badass.
i'm sure it will drastically reduce street racing. however, i'm of the opinion you should let people live their lives with relative freedom. i'd rather not have big brother smashing my car at his own discretion.
You're comparing the execution of a person to crushing a car. I think if drunk drivers got THEIR cars crushed, hey.. certainly cant drink and drive then.
yea sure its a little extreme but dont u think it will send the messege? im gonna pull a melissa and say, how many of your friends have died because of drunks? my best friend was t-boned cuz a drunk ran a red light. he's dead now. another friend was ran into head on by an SUV with a drunk behind the wheel. he was driving a celica, he's also dead. Another one of my friends was cliped on a bike (he beieves it was a drunk behind the wheel) lost control and spent months in the hostipal with pretty much every bone on his left side of the body being broken, he's still alive tho. do those drunks deserve to die - yup.
/hijack
So you've never gone WOT on public roads? cuz that can certainly qualify for crushing your car by some cops. how would that make u feel?
Life in prison?? WTF, car crushing is easy to deal with but life in prison? So a rapist would do less time than a street racer "in most serious cases" ... unless u killed somebody, thats wrong.
The bill recommends raising maximum sentences to life in prison for the most serious cases and also calls for mandatory driving bans for those convicted.
Life in prison?? WTF, car crushing is easy to deal with but life in prison? So a rapist would do less time than a street racer "in most serious cases" ... unless u killed somebody, thats wrong.
:werd:
a convo between inmates
- yo home slice what u here fo?
- street racing
- how long?
- fo life dawg
- that ****s wacked
- fosho *****
- how about u?
- ass raping, bend over now biatch.
- ohh :(
bad64chevelle
06-19-2006, 01:21 PM
:funny: this seems kinda rediculous though.
shane27
06-19-2006, 01:44 PM
car crushing is straightup bs
take away racers liscence for a few years or something.
bad64chevelle
06-19-2006, 01:48 PM
Im with you on that one Shane.
:werd:
a convo between inmates
- yo home slice what u here fo?
- street racing
- how long?
- fo life dawg
- that ****s wacked
- fosho *****
- how about u?
- ass raping, bend over not biatch.
- ohh :(
Thats just like the infamous convo
"Yo Skillet, whacha do?"
-4 Armed Bank Robberies and perolle violation
"Damn u here for life?"
-Yea, no perolle, how bout you?
"Ripped a tag off a mattress"
...
bad64chevelle
06-19-2006, 02:01 PM
:lol:
Tru2Chevy
06-19-2006, 02:20 PM
I'm all for eliminating street racing, but crushing cars would prolly never fly in most of the US. I say take the cars and put 'em up for auction. Taking away the racer's license doesn't do a whole lot, most of them will just keep driving without one...which means that they are also driving without insurance. Putting them all in jail is also a burdon on taxpayers though....
:sigh: It's really a tough problem to deal with.
- Justin
qwikz28
06-19-2006, 03:03 PM
whats the difference between street racing and speeding? and what if a cop interprets a car as racing when really all he was doing was speeding? i can imagine this being somewhat fitting (yet slightly over-the-top) for organized street racers (like those guys at Ave P). but for those of us that pull up next to another car at a light and race the other dude to the railroad tracks (which are conveniently 1/4 mile apart)?
another thing, my friend was once speeding down route 17 in the winter in a rwd bmw. he went to take an exit ramp and hit a slick spot and fishtailed. the kid not being too good at drifting (this was still original fast and the furious days) couldnt correct it and spun into the snow. a cop saw him do this and instead of helping him out wrote him up a careless driving ticket cause the cop said he was intentionally trying to fishtail the car. imagine getting your BMW crushed for that?
35thls1ss19
06-19-2006, 03:20 PM
whats the difference between street racing and speeding? and what if a cop interprets a car as racing when really all he was doing was speeding? i can imagine this being somewhat fitting (yet slightly over-the-top) for organized street racers (like those guys at Ave P). but for those of us that pull up next to another car at a light and race the other dude to the railroad tracks (which are conveniently 1/4 mile apart)?
another thing, my friend was once speeding down route 17 in the winter in a rwd bmw. he went to take an exit ramp and hit a slick spot and fishtailed. the kid not being too good at drifting (this was still original fast and the furious days) couldnt correct it and spun into the snow. a cop saw him do this and instead of helping him out wrote him up a careless driving ticket cause the cop said he was intentionally trying to fishtail the car. imagine getting your BMW crushed for that?
i agree 100% speeding should be put in the same catigory as street racing. Street racign is safer. its late at night, and on roads that have not alot of cars on them. Then you get some dumb ass comin home from work on rt. 80 and he has to cut in and out of lanes doin 120mph. His car should be the one gettin crushed. I personal can carless if street racign goes on or not. But i sure love goin to watch on a nice night... and hell i might even run a few times....
Rob WS6
06-19-2006, 03:44 PM
People die everyday. From stupid ****, normal ****, abnormal ****, wierd ****. But thats an ok, acceptable fact of life. Yet, when someone gets killed doing something people ENJOY, its suddenly some horrible thing that should be stopped at all costs.
Cut me a ****ing break. Im so sick of these street-racing-is-bad preachers. Theres ALOT of bad **** that happens to people, yet all this country seems to focus on are the ones that people enjoy doing.
And crushing cars? Are you serious? How in the hell could ANYONE agree with that. Thats like saying if someone is shooting fireworks off at their house, their house should be crushed. And this IS a good analogy because fireworks kill people, are dangerous, and fun at the same time. So do you agree with that too?
Squirrel
06-19-2006, 03:49 PM
more people died from falling coconuts than street racing in 2004, should we outlaw coconuts?...less deaths from street racing FTW :w00t:
qwikz28
06-19-2006, 03:52 PM
more people died from falling coconuts than street racing in 2004, should we outlaw coconuts?...less deaths from street racing FTW :w00t:
hell no! those coconut girl scout cookies are FTW!
98tadriver
06-19-2006, 03:53 PM
apparently none of you have ever lost a friend to a street race..
If they started crushing cars for street racing, people might actually stop doing it. Impounds and points dont work. No one wants to see their hard earned money get crushed. I'm not agreeing with the 'modified for street racing' part of the article, but if they can prove you were racing someone else, take the ****ing car and crush it like a soda can.
Ive been street racing for a couple years. On abandoned back roads with long lines of visibility beyond the racing area, with no cross streets in the racing area, and usually with spotters 1/2 mile up and down the road to warn of incoming traffic. Sometimes i will race from a roll but ONLY IF there arent any cars in front of me
That whole crushing idea is definately F*cked up. More people die per year in DRUNK DRIVING RELATED ACCIDENTS than street racing related accidents heres some stats for ya--
Traffic fatalities in alcohol-related crashes fell by 2.4 percent, from 17,105 in 2003
to 16,694 in 2004. The 16,694 alcohol-related fatalities in 2004 (39% of total traffic
fatalities for the year) represent a 4-percent reduction from the 17,308 alcohol-related
fatalities reported in 1994 (43% of the total).
The 16,694 fatalities in alcohol-related crashes during 2004 represent an average
of one alcohol-related fatality every 31 minutes.
this was from http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2004/809905.pdf
bad64chevelle
06-19-2006, 03:55 PM
hell no! those coconut girl scout cookies are FTW!
ahahaha :funny:
unstable bob gable
06-19-2006, 11:32 PM
Like Archie Bunker once said about preventing highjackings: Arm everyone on the plane, and ya won't have any more highjackings!
Savage_Messiah
06-20-2006, 08:56 AM
I'm all for eliminating street racing, but crushing cars would prolly never fly in most of the US.
:stupid: 100%
edit: say I drove up to canada and had some chance WOT encounter with a (canadian plated) mustang... would they crush my car too or just the mustang?
firehawk1120
06-20-2006, 10:47 AM
There is never any excuse for the government to take someone's personal property. The problem is that the government does things to make an example and show they have the ability to do stuff like this. I think a better solution is to heavily fine these people. If fines don't work then there is a penalty tier system. After 1 time fine and loss of license, 2nd time you do jail time. 3rd time you lose the car and a HUGE ass fine.
There has to be some sort of logical way to do stuff like this. The problem is they don't make it even across the board. Drunks don't lose their cars. Drug addicts don't lose their cars. Old people with cataracts (sp?) don't lose their cars.
It's a ******** law I busted my ass to buy this car and do what I want to do to it. Not only that but with all the safety equipment it's probably safer then most cars on the road. Not saying street racing is smart but 99.9 % of us have done it or at least went WOT on the parkway/turnpike at least once.
You can't just rip something away from someone for a first time being caught offense.
79CamaroDiva
06-20-2006, 11:04 AM
It's a ******** law I busted my ass to buy this car and do what I want to do to it. Not only that but with all the safety equipment it's probably safer then most cars on the road. Not saying street racing is smart but 99.9 % of us have done it or at least went WOT on the parkway/turnpike at least once.
You can't just rip something away from someone for a first time being caught offense.
i think judging by the number of people who feel the same way you do, its clear that you guys would at least think twice before racing someone again, and probably wouldn't do it, because you know what you've put in your car and don't want it taken away because of a ******** law.
chevyt454
06-20-2006, 11:42 AM
Wow a 2004 that was modified - hope he had full coverage! LOL
i think judging by the number of people who feel the same way you do, its clear that you guys would at least think twice before racing someone again, and probably wouldn't do it, because you know what you've put in your car and don't want it taken away because of a ******** law.
well, that's very true, but that doesn't justify the law...at all. i'm sure if the schools murdered a family member everytime you forgot you forgot your hw, you would never forget your hw again, but the rule is still excessive and not just.
unstable bob gable
06-20-2006, 11:22 PM
CRUSH ALL RICERS!!!!
There has to be some sort of logical way to do stuff like this. The problem is they don't make it even across the board. Drunks don't lose their cars. Drug addicts don't lose their cars. Old people with cataracts (sp?) don't lose their cars.
i do believe NY takes all cars involved in drunk driving convictions then i think they are sold at auction eventually and the previous owner is not allowed to bid. Also many states do take cars if they are involved in trafficing drugs and such.
chemicalstylez
06-21-2006, 10:07 AM
Crushing your car is beyond rediculous for street racing, taking away someones lisence will stop them from driving, anyone can still buy another car over time and do the samething. Though it may sound dumb; but how many times have people been caught doing wrong things more than once? Cars are replaceable, driving previleges aren't. Bonehead law in my opinion, i would fight tooth and nail to save my car.
Tru2Chevy
06-21-2006, 01:43 PM
Crushing your car is beyond rediculous for street racing, taking away someones lisence will stop them from driving, anyone can still buy another car over time and do the samething.
One of the reason that NJ has the highest car insurance in the country is because we also have one of the highest percentage of unlicensed/uninsured motorist on the roads.
Taking away someones license (especially a street racer) isn't going to stop them from driving, in many cases. I know several people who don't have a license and still drive on a regular basis.
- Justin
79CamaroDiva
06-21-2006, 04:47 PM
I know several people who don't have a license and still drive on a regular basis.
- Justin
in fact, several of our very own club members do/did just that.
Savage_Messiah
06-21-2006, 04:50 PM
I was good, i didn't drive for my 20 day suspension :-D
Firebird67dude
06-21-2006, 06:20 PM
Ok. So if u spend all that money to make ur car faster than take it to the track. Why risk getting it crushed? Yea, Ive street raced b4 but being that i have 6 points the speed limit is fine for me. Plus crushing cars would make more ppl. go to tracks so there for the owners would make more money. Drunk drivers should automaticly loose their D.L.s for ever and ever. I def. wouldn't even think about street racing if i knew my car could possibly be crushed. Wats wrong with the idea if u drink dont drive. Take some responsiblilty.
i'm sure if the schools murdered a family member everytime you forgot you forgot your hw, you would never forget your hw again
Wow. That sounds retarded. Forgeting ur homework wont kill someone. IT doesnt even compare to a car speeding in a street race n then slaming into someone. If u wanna race someone bring it to the track. Better than something to go wrong with ur "street racing" car at the track were emergency personnel are right there than on some street late at night were even if ur "homie" says if u get hurt he'll help u put when it comes down to it your "homie" would just **** his pants and run away.
i'm sure if the schools murdered a family member everytime you forgot you forgot your hw, you would never forget your hw again
Wow. That sounds retarded. Forgeting ur homework wont kill someone. IT doesnt even compare to a car speeding in a street race n then slaming into someone. If u wanna race someone bring it to the track. Better than something to go wrong with ur "street racing" car at the track were emergency personnel are right there than on some street late at night were even if ur "homie" says if u get hurt he'll help u put when it comes down to it your "homie" would just **** his pants and run away.
the illustration was to emphasize excessive legal action. it correlates with the post i quoted and illustrates the idea that though a law may produce results, it does not justify its existence.
Firebird67dude
06-21-2006, 10:23 PM
Tru but i think the law is fine. Thats wat they have race tracks for.
79CamaroDiva
06-23-2006, 11:59 AM
the illustration was to emphasize excessive legal action. it correlates with the post i quoted and illustrates the idea that though a law may produce results, it does not justify its existence.
the illustration you used is ludicrous and you know it. forgetting homework isn't against the law in the first place. Crushing a car for street racing is really no different than having a breathalizer attached to the ignition of the car of an alcoholic. It's taking away something that they love. In the alcoholics case, they can't drive anywhere with alcohol on their breath. The street racers time and money are taken away. What it comes down to, is you don't have to worry about it if you don't do it. I personally have never been involved in a street race. I've punched it from a stop light, but never full throttle past the speed limit. It's not that difficult.
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