Car Crushed by Police in L.A.

[BigAL_250]

Originally Posted by XRQTOR

What about the guys who own decent car's, how many would be willing to take off so the cop's dont catch them and crush their cars. This will put even more lives in danger as they will be taking bigger risks to elude police as they now have more to loose.

Oh course, we have to keep in mind that LAPD are doing this to STREET RACERS, people who are already doing many times the legal limit, often with spectators around, endangering many lives anway. Scenes not much different to that drag race video posted last week can happen.
These people are doing the things you state whether they have been pulled over or not.

[XRQTOR]

Originally Posted by bigal_1701

Oh course, we have to keep in mind that LAPD are doing this to STREET RACERS, people who are already doing many times the legal limit, often with spectators around, endangering many lives anway. Scenes not much different to that drag race video posted last week can happen.
These people are doing the things you state whether they have been pulled over or not.

Funny how it's never actually happend when people have been street racing, besides when people go out to watch or race they know the risks so it's not endangering innocent lives. In nsw you can be charged just for watching prople street race, enciting ............. something or other which is why everyone scrambles when they hear or see that the coppers are turning up.

There are a reported 66,ooo ICE addicts in austalia atm, probally the same amount of people have or do street race. What honestly destroy's more lives and family's, i think there are bigger problems out there than street racing.

[FPV8U]

Originally Posted by XRQTOR

Funny how it's never actually happend when people have been street racing, besides when people go out to watch or race they know the risks so it's not endangering innocent lives. In nsw you can be charged just for watching prople street race, enciting ............. something or other which is why everyone scrambles when they hear or see that the coppers are turning up.

There are a reported 66,ooo ICE addicts in austalia atm, probally the same amount of people have or do street race. What honestly destroy's more lives and family's, i think there are bigger problems out there than street racing.

Exactly, but it's easier to target motorists and getting money from fines and sales of there cars, than doing real work and getting drugs and their addicts off the streets.

[Tuddy200]

While it's a "push" not to hoon or street race, it coul potionally leave many young people struggling finacially having to pay the car off but not having to drive.

If they are caught, they should not be allowed to drive the car and sell it, pay back there loan, and buy another car within certain restrictions, no fancy big 6s or V8s, and I know what your all 'going' to say that it doesn't matter what they drive they can still "speed" or "hoon" but if they choose to, then they deserve to then have tougher penitlies.

Just tougher penitiles for "repeat" offenders, not people that go 5-10km over the limit, those caught 40+ over?

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by XRQTOR

What about the guys who own decent car's, how many would be willing to take off so the cop's dont catch them and crush their cars. This will put even more lives in danger as they will be taking bigger risks to elude police as they now have more to loose.

I understand your point. These comments from me were mainly tongue in cheek, simply because I can’t stand ricers and the image they portray when it comes to street racing. Movies like The fast and the furious only glorify this, usually to impressionable and unintelligent individuals.

I don’t remember people trying to mimic Max Rockananski when Mad Max was released, although some may have.

I certainly don’t advocate giving the Australian police any more power by introducing more draconian rules, as I believe that they already have enough and we certainly don’t have as many of the problems that they have over there in LA.

I find it hard to understand how the minds of some of these people work as I’m not in the habit preforming burnouts or trying to reach the outer limits of my car’s performance in suburban / populated areas.

I honestly believe that a lot more younger people are stupider these days when it comes to their on road behaviour, and because there are more of them around and powerful cars are a lot cheaper, the media takes full advantage of this. When I was younger, we still did all of the usual stuff, however, we generally didn’t do the stupid things that people are getting nailed for in suburban areas.

We wouldn’t have the hoon laws in Victoria if these boneheads that like to show off to hundreds of people in Noble Park drove their sh*tboxes an hour and a half up the road and didn’t bother the general public.

Hopefully we won’t see people’s cars being crushed in Victoria, however, with Bracks running the state, I wouldn’t rule anything out. It’s the tolerance levels that have to be changed before many people will respect the laws here.

They still have the death penalty in California, so perhaps Bracks could “look into that” for Victoria as well.

[Nikked]

gay idea, and to many boofheadfs with small **** ricer bashing, yes poeple die street racing, people die driving normally, one little bit of excitment and you car gets squished. they will go out and buy a new car.

[Venomous1]

This is Just ridiculous what they are doing is just causing more trouble instead just license suspension or something like that the resort to this.All this is gonna do is insight violence and revenge and commit deeper criminal acts.

Even the normal guy is gonna do something bad when hes life gets smashed or crushed.

But this is actually about street racers those are people who hoon regularly so this doesn't come into affect of any of the other rules.

So the normal bloke that just gives a little extra throttle will still just get a speeding ticket.

So if your a street racer be worried if not don't let this bother you!.
America is a police state and most of the laws seem to mover globally so don't expect it too take long before this is in full effect world wide.

The world is getting more like a jail everyday aint it ?

[Vile Merchant]

The finance companies won't be enjoying this. Hard to imagine that it's even legal for the police to crush a car that a finance company has legal title over..

[jimmy_c]

You all agree until it happens to a GT or something like that. Wake up and smell the roses fellas.

I like that pile of crushed rice but it starts out on ricers then goes to everything else. next weeks its grannys old camry that gets done.

[jimmy_c]

Originally Posted by Venomous™

The world is getting more like a jail everyday aint it ?

Well your not far off. the only difference between normal people and crims behind bars now days is the perception of freedom

[Venomous1]

there is not true freedom never was never will be sucks actually.

[Green X]

Originally Posted by Outbackjack

The only problem about implementing this in Australia would be Government's like the Victorian Gov. I can see it now. Some poor sod slips over the posted limit by 10kph, next thing he sees is his car crushed to a pulp.

What a bout company cars and the like???

And what exactly constitutes "hooning"?

Spot on mate, i don't want to be in my Turbo and ge done at 130km/h overtaking a road train to have some copper who is having a bad day nab me and book me for hooning ending in my 50K car getting Crushed, alng with about 50 other scenarios that well may be against the traffic law they don't warrant having you car crushed.

All that would do is bring in the You want my car you better catch me first mentality. cause you can bet your allot of theses people aren't just going to hand over there 30.40-80K cars to the crusher.

Also Australians Street racing seen is a Pin when you compare it to what goes on in the states.

[Billy351]

Originally Posted by HOON69

they been doing this for a while
seems like australia might wanna adapt the same rules might curve our problem ten folds,just look at the face of that ricer boy his shattered :

Ha ha ha looks like a rice custard

[Bucknaked]

It'll buff out.

[StookEB]

would it be better having system like the following:

1st Offence- Fine and/or suspension of license

2nd Offence- Impound the car for a certain amount of time.

3rd Offence- Car crushed

Or the judge may rule a harsher sentence in some circumstances. The Police shouldnt have the ability, it should all be up to a judge.

[bob^]

I was watching a thing on Discovery Channel about street racers and they mentioned this. The coppers there hand out "tickets" but they aren't normal tickets. They are free entry into the legal drag nights, and the cops also get involved with some very quick race cars of their own.
Whilst they are crushing cars, and also said it's tough for the kids who have to keep paying the car off, they are genuinely doing something to help them too.

[Billy351]

Originally Posted by Stefan

How about getting tough on real criminals, car theives, burglars, child rapists murderers......oh no lets get tough on the bloke that chucks a skid in his honda civic at 3 in the morning in a Saturday night : :

He is easier to catch
(I just noticed the goose in the mid riff top looking at his crushed car. He is such a sharp dresser!)