Crushing Street Racer's Cars - WTF

Amen!

We had a few of those videos too I think, but I can't remember for sure. I KNOW they simulated a car crash into the brick gazebo/band stand thing in front of the high school. Had the fire/rescue squad come in with jaws of life to cut people out of the car. Most of us thought it was pretty cool, and the concept of death didn't really settle in. However, we did see how smashed up the car would be, and we didn't have many car accidents in my area. Mostly kids learning to drive hitting mailboxes and crap by accident.

Then again, we grew up driving mom or dad's car so if you fucked around with it, you got your ass beat. No little race car just handed of with money for parts or places to steal parts from.

Anyway, my wife brings out books with accident victims when our daughter rides her bike in the road after we tell her not too. Books that show what happens when a kid gets hit by a car. She stopped riding in the road.

 

people only kill others or get in accidents when they are either being stupid or dont pay attention. speeding on a highway is different than "racing"

 

I'm gonna have to guess that these aren't 1st time offenders or just average Joes that got stopped for going 60 in a 55 zone.

 

So then an accident caused by brakes failing, tire blowing out, animal running into the road, hydroplaning, etc are all caused by stupid or inattentive people? Give me a break. If you're really only 15 you've hardly had any driving experience yourself.

 

I'm sure it's dettered a few people though, and it's certainly stopped the executed person doing it again. That's the idea behind crushing the racers' cars.

I think it's a good thing. That ricer looked like a complete POS anyway.

 

Although crushing the cars is primarily focused at deterring street racing there could be a better solution...... how bout they take the cars and part them out..... maybe that would help pay for some of the cost of flying air force one over new york to get that perfect picture.

 

I don't completely understand it. So if I was caught speeding 60 in a 55, my vehicle would get crushed? or is it only if your street racing?

 

Only if you are drvining a honda with shitty racing strips and a coffee can muffler.

OH and running one of those blistering vtechs

 

ok, well ur pretty much asking to get ur car crushed if your street racing. Leaving school one day, two dumb a's were racing, a ricey blue civic si and a 'stang gt, and as they were approaching a rather busy area where lots of cars are entering and exiting the highway the mustang was passing cars in median at around 80+ mph almost hit a car. I came so close to caling the cops on 'em because of that. But seriously keep it on the drag strip

 

I dig it- There are legal ways to do exactly what they are doing, but due to any number of reasons they choose to do it illegally.

And they are dumb enuf to get caught...I would love to see the money put to better use...but the chances that the gov't could administer a program to sell high performance car parts to appropriate people/venues and not have inordinate liability is slim to none.

It's not cheap to build one of those cars- and getting busted for street racing affects insurance rates/insurability...making every bust a driver takes very expensive. It's a step in the right direction...

 

regardless of the dangers o street racing, these tactics are, quite simply

idiotic, wasteful and done for attention not from racers, but from voters.

there is a lot of revenue to come from liquidating those cars, all you'll get from smashing them is scrap and a landfill full of shit.

i dont race, but i would take it to the supreme court if i saw senseless destruction of property being used to spite spoiled kids.

 

A VEHICLE IS A STREET RACERS WEAPON?!
thats right,
i remember now,
a kid in his WRX chasing down pedestrians screaming

"I QUITE ENJOY MURDER! THIS IS MY INTENT!"

NO.

street racers get people killed out of stupidity, that car in someone elses hands is valuable income for state authorities.

it costs nothing to auction off those cars, or SIMPLY parts them out.

but it will cost plenty to clean up and store the cubed piles they leave behind.