Crushed Cars for Illegal Street racing

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

Okay, do NOT even get me going on this. Okay, too late. They have this
"Crush the evil imports for the press" thing here too. I do not street
race, though I would happily(?) accept any tickets I may earn when engaged
in "enthusiastic test driving", I deserve some likely. That's not a problem
for me, kidzzz can street race in anything they like, and if my students
are any indication, imports are not the real threat. Of my three classes,
I've had three kids hospitalized for bad rollovers, one a truck, one a van,
one an SUV. All three are really lucky to be alive. Not a modified import
among them. But there's no press in "getting those dangerous soccer mom
vehicles off the road".
Cars that have been "altered"? Yeah, I have a few. I think the Cabby's the
only one that doesn't qualify of nine with plates, and the tenth is a
potent street terror (the "speedThree"). Ironic that the "best candidate
for street racing" would escape the "alteration" ruling. The Speed's stock.
So yeah, I drag race at import events. And every year, the cops set up a
checkpoint on the way to the track, and hand out total bullshit tickets to
kids intende=ing to "take it to the track". Some incentive to drive two
hours to a real track that is. And these tickets are rediculous, one kid
got an "emissions violation" ticket on a car that has to pass Etest for its
plate. The reason for a ticket? His "Check engine" light was on, this
automatically means that he's got illegal exhaust i guess. Yeah, I am
serious. This poor kid had several hundred dollars of tickets for modified
tails and other bullshit stuff in addition to the CEL ticket. He can fight
them and win in court, but that's a day out of his life. It just pisses me
off. Arrest the kids who are being assholes on the road, (and take get some
of the dangerous old folks off the roads too), and maybe set up an
checkpoint on "outlaw class" dat too, yeah, you won't see that, those cars
are all modified too, but that's okay, it's Detroit iron. Voters like that
type of modified street rod. Okay, enough...rant delayed for a driving
session..
Cathy

 On 2:26 pm 06/21/07 Neptuno <neptunonc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I mean honestly what happens when people blow and engine or a
> transmission? Those serial numbers are not the same? Right? If you
> replaced the engine with anything but the original would that not
> change the numbers?
>
>   More questions than comments....but oh well..... If anything the
> insurance companies are behind this one. Feel sorry for those guys that
> had there cars crushed, but if they where actually cought in the act of
> braking the law in street racing then CRUSH IT, but for what it seems
> they may have been in the wrong place hanging out with a bad blinker or
> missing sticker then it does make you a bit frustrated at the usage of
> power to scape goat a few and make them public expecticle.
>
>   Just another reasonto say no to rice and the FF fashion design
> wearhouse.....
>
>   my .02
>   El T
>
> Dan Bubb <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   In other words the cops are just looking for any excuse to control
> the situation, which sounds to me like it's badly out of control Not
> that the cops approach is right! Dan
>
> From: "Allyn"
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:47 PM
> Subject: RE: Crushed Cars for Illegal Street racing
>
>
> >>  We are collectively screwed.
> >
> >
> >  Oh BS. Like the cops are gonna care about a 20+ year old scirocco.
> >  I had to get MK1 Marks silver 8v inspected buy the local pd prior
> to getting a title (because prior title was in canada). The only VINs
> >  that matched were the door jamb and firewall stamp. Everything
> else was swapped in from a 98 jetta. It took me all of 10 seconds to
> >  explain it away.
> >  :)
> >
> >  Al
> >
> >
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