📰 Auto News Illegal racing reaching 'ridiculous' levels

[skeezer]

The story is too long to post. Looks like news videos are laced throughout the page.

Seems like if a speeding car gets in an accident or hurts someone, street racing is automatically the culprit. They mention in the story there's different 'instances' of racing, or 'challenges' (LOL). They want to tag all the dumbass kids out there speeding from light to light 'street racers'... False.. I'm sure shit has been like that since Fred Flintstone and foot powered vehicles! Doesn't mean they're street racing.. just means they're being stupid.

They go to say mention this type of 'challenge':

• planned events where racers stage contests for money, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars.

These contests for money don't usually involve the type of folk they're mentioning in their first 'type'. I'd put alot more money on it that people are more likely to get hurt getting beat up from not paying than in a car accident.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/22/street.racing/index.html

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[Mook]

the media really overhypes everything these days....yea accidents do happen and not that i "condone" street racing, but the times ive been to big turnouts, its actually pretty safe. people arent idiots at the organized races....its the kids in their shitboxes trying to be paul walker that causes problems

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

the media really overhypes everything these days....yea accidents do happen and not that i "condone" street racing, but the times ive been to big turnouts, its actually pretty safe. people arent idiots at the organized races....its the kids in their shitboxes trying to be paul walker that causes problems

exactly or in the middle of traffic

 

[Mook]

and honestly, street racing as an organized thing seemed to have dropped off considerably this past summer tho hanging out at the streets of woodfield really isnt the "happening" place it once was

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

holy shit, read the 2nd or 3rd paragraph... theres why... "They chose a straight two-lane road. It had hills, something Simcoe needed for a running start because first gear in his 1993 Honda Civic EX didn't work."

fucking retards, lets race, i dont have a first gear so downhill?

 

[Mook]

not that i'm pointing the finger...but its rather funny that virtually EVERY TIME you read a story or watch a news piece on streetracing, hondas are ALWAYS involved

"steven was racing his 1997 honda civic when he lost control and crashed into a family of 4"

maybe its just cause its the midwest but EVERY report i read is always talking like hondas are the only cars raced

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

i totally agree, i only see hondas.. its cause they are cheap and people think they are fast and are amazing at handling when they are shit unless u dump 5-10k into them

 

[Mook]

lets not make this another honda shitfest

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

lol, no im saying thats what they think

 

[Mook]

oh i dont disagree...hondas catch a lot of shit from the news

 

[Dasfinc]

lol, no im saying thats what they think

I think when Hulk Hogans son Wrecked his Supra that spawned a tidal-wave of media on street-racing that hasn't stopped since.

and to be quite frank, the only 'road rage' accident I've ever been involved in was when I witnessed a red civic driven by a mexican crash into netchemica while the mexican had his KID IN THE BACK SEAT.

I ALSO agree, that alot of morons think their civics are the end all, and because of shit like that Honda's get a bad wrap. (And the mass media hype doesn't help either)

 

[PANDA]

Its not the guys out in the middle of the night racing in a industrial, rural, or secluded area, that are killing people. These are often very organized and "safe" if you will. Its the dumb fuck ricer kids who are racing down busy city streets that kill people.

 

[Mook]

i wanna say something tho....street racing is never "safe" even when you put it in "quotes"......not scolding you panda, just wanna make my view clear

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

neither is track... u can still crash, people can still die.... thats not "safe" either

 

[flip240]

ignorance in the media.. the people doing the reports have no idea what they're talking about, and giving their news reports based on their half assed understanding of what's really going on

 

[PANDA]

i wanna say something tho....street racing is never "safe" even when you put it in "quotes"......not scolding you panda, just wanna make my view clear

Well I quote safe because real street racers organize shit, and like I said, race in areas were no other people are around.

 

[Euro]

Fucking idiots....."They chose a straight two-lane road. It had hills, something Simcoe needed for a running start because first gear in his 1993 Honda Civic EX didn't work."


I still think there should be harsher penalties for doing this.......street racing is stupid.

 

[Freddy]

anyone wanna race my stock moped on the expressway?

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

anyone wanna race my stock moped on the expressway?

i will lmao

 

[ktraver97ss]

i feel more in danger in costcos parking lot on a saturday than i do at an organized street race. :biggthump:

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

i feel more in danger in costcos parking lot on a saturday than i do at an organized street race. :biggthump:

or walmart/ikea or the mall....

 

[WhiteDevil]

something along the lines of " find another way home....pizza boy" comes to mind.

Thats what I blame for the "levels" of "illegal" racing.

 

[LeddZepp8687]

I think when Hulk Hogans son Wrecked his Supra that spawned a tidal-wave of media on street-racing that hasn't stopped since.

and to be quite frank, the only 'road rage' accident I've ever been involved in was when I witnessed a red civic driven by a mexican crash into netchemica while the mexican had his KID IN THE BACK SEAT.

I ALSO agree, that alot of morons think their civics are the end all, and because of shit like that Honda's get a bad wrap. (And the mass media hype doesn't help either)

Oh that was so fucking funny.

bad for kamil tho.

 

[Dasfinc]

Oh that was so fucking funny.

bad for kamil tho.

I still have the mental image of that woman pulling over in the VW beetle by us, getting out of her car, pulling out her badge and saying "State Trooper, I just saw everything"

 

[LeddZepp8687]

I still have the mental image of that woman pulling over in the VW beetle by us, getting out of her car, pulling out her badge and saying "State Trooper, I just saw everything"

yea that was funny.