the city of LA has gone to far
 

this is just wrong but im not much for typing so ill post the link.
http://kcal9.com/siteSearch/topstori...287174914.html
after you read this watch the movie at the bottom.

i cant find the words.....

WTF? :shock:

While street racing may not be the brightest idea, why take it out on the car? Sell it at auction or something.....

- Justin

interesting fact hehe. but seriously, there doesn't seem to be much point to this. because the driver always loses the car with very slim chances of getting it back anyways. so considering this it doesn't add to the discouragement of street racing at all :?

geuss i won't be seeing any street races when i go to L.A. 14 days from now. :roll:

"particularly after the movie "2 Fast 2 Furious" and its sequel."
lol.....dip****s

I still cant grasp the concept of how someone can take something that isnt theirs. IE my car. No state you cant have it. thanks.

did you catch how the anchor called the car a "mustang" too?? :lol:

i don't like teh idea of destroying cars for any reason.
street racing is plain old stupid. it is a meaningless way to risk your life and the lives of others.
if they think that destroying cars(something cali has gotten very good at over the years) will keep people from racing they are sorely mistaken. so an IROC gets crushed, that same kid will pay up his fines and get another one.
it comes down to the fact that the law and enforcement are way more reactive than proactive. if more time was taken to educate and offer alternatives(street legal drags at any of cali's tracks) then we could all avoid teh whoel situation.
i know we will never stop everyone from street racing, but it can be reduced greatly if the authority figures acteed like adults instead of bullies out for a photo opp.

later
tim

Heh - I caught that too

- Justin

Selling the car at auctuion and barring the owner of the car from attending would be more effective. As tough as that video was to watch, Seeing my own car wouldnt be nearly as painful as watching someone else driving my car, oblivious to all of the work I put into it. I'm, in a sense, of the mentality that If I cant have it, nobody can.

So would it be fair for me to go to their house and smash up their SUV's that have never seen a dirt road? You know, since those vehicles are responsible for some thousands of deaths from roll overs.
I'm steaming with almost crazed fury at how messed up their thinking is. Yeah, it's not bad enough that we've taken their fun away (no drag strips) but now we'll smash up a car too. So if you don't want your fun car smashed, don't street race.
I think it's about time Cali just slips into the Pacific and we become the United 49 States of America.
Street racing is definatly stupid but a friendly stop light rush to the speed limit isn't going to kill people.

Man i would like to see that happen here when they street race at the Hole in newark..them guys are armed more than the police are.. :twisted:

Santos

if your talking about ave p i've heard so many stories about there, i have yet to go there myself and i don't plan on going. From what i understand its a whole bunch of people waving around guns looking for a fight and honda civic's racing :roll: , doesn't sound like much fun

it gets better later in the night when the V8's start getting trailered in..thats when the real action starts.and the real money comes in..boy the good old days :twisted:

Santos

i say just give the cars to charity or something...or just drop all the fbodies at my house and I'll be sure to give them a nice home :lol:

time for me to show my age, it is hard to think that the hole can still hodl a candle to the odl days when teh line went all teh way to the bridge. that was late 80's/early 90's style and it was an all domestic scene.
that is deifnately one of the more nuts places i have ever seen a race at.
fo rthose of you who haven't been to a real street race, north jersey is the ultimate in put up or shut up or get stabbed kind of places. i saw everything from the normal build ups to stolen cars run up there when i was a kid. definately crazy $h1+

later
tim

Ahh,so there are some old warhorse's around here like me :grampsch:

Santos

front st in philly (and the surrounding area) used to be like that. i stopped going when they started bringing weapons. i stopped playing street football between rival neighborhoods when they started bringing weapons. IMO, bringing weapons proves you're and idiot and a coward. it used to be that we could solve differences with words. then people started using their fists, which, while stupid, rarely ends up with anyone seriously hurt.

they are auctioning the cars in LA. it just so happens that the do-gooder organization that won the car at auction, turned around and donated it back to the city for them to do with it as they wished. they crushed it. the city will not be grabbing up cars and crushing them - at least not yet. that type of legislation would bring out the worst in any resident, as who is to say they weren't racing? it's the cops word against the car owner. if you run up against a hard nosed cop and he decided to take the ultimate revenge against you, he'd say you were street racing and you'd lose your car. there is no way in hell they can put a law like that on the books.

read it very carefully. the laws are still the same way they've always been, but they are trying this twist to see the public's reaction. if they ever decided to pull some **** like that here, i would leave. no ifs, ands or butts :D about it, i would be outta here in a heartbeat. i can't imagine them being able to get that kind of legislation passed - but if there was a way and they got it done i would have the final reason to leave this sorry state. i feel the same about california at this point. nice place to visit but i wouldn't want to live there.

Heres what I think is gonna come from this: Your gonna get even MORE deaths.
1) Kids everywhere Like to race
2) Kids in LA cant drag race. So they have to street race.
3) Cops come to break it up and start pulling people over.
4) Kid sees cop trying to pull him over, thinks about what he saw on tv about cars being crushed, and says "F*** it! What do i have to loose. If I run and crash my car, its getting totaled. If i pull over, my car is getting totaled. Might as well have a fighting chance.
5) Kid runs...into a pedestrian or another motorist

See what I'm getting at here? I mean, maybe I'm wrong, and if someone thinks i am, say something. But in all absolute honesty, if i were in that situation, thats probably what I would do. Id see it as "better to bump into a few cars and get away with some repairable damage than to have a steel throw rug.

they do. that part of the law didn't change. it's just that the people who won the auction, a do-gooder organization, donated it back to the city. the city took the opportunity to crush it. oh, and it was "declared a nuisance" first, then crushed.

i hadn't watched the video before, but just saw it.

that doesn't look like it's the right year to be an IROC. didn't GM lose the rights to the license for the IROC name in '87? that car looks like an '89 or a '90. the anchor called it a mustang, the field reporter called it an IROC and she also used that term that pissed me off to no end: drag racing. those kids were NOT drag racing. they were street racing.