Street racers busted, news story created, video confiscated, GN ends up in the vid

[Whut]

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Check out the video for the laugh. The GN is towards the end, luckly its just pulling out of the parking spot and not actually racing these clowns.

 

[SVORay]

I wonder how much of that video or any video of street racing can legaly be used against you in court?

 

[WHEEZER]

Crackdowns everywhere. Here in Charlotte this weekend 27 people busted, 17 cars loaded on rollbacks and confiscated. I'm glad the GN you spoke of got out okay.

 

[Whut]

I wonder how much of that video or any video of street racing can legaly be used against you in court?

I was wondering the same thing. I am thinking they can use it all. Look at those kids that were shooting people with a paint ball gun. The cops saw them shoot it once but they used the video to really slam them into the ground. Same went for these kids that were busted stealing. One of the items they stole was a video camera where they had stupidly filmed themselves vandalising a house, like bashing huge holes in the wall etc.. they got hit with both the theft charges as well as the vandalism.

 

[SVORay]

I was wondering the same thing. I am thinking they can use it all. Look at those kids that were shooting people with a paint ball gun. The cops saw them shoot it once but they used the video to really slam them into the ground. Same went for these kids that were busted stealing. One of the items they stole was a video camera where they had stupidly filmed themselves vandalising a house, like bashing huge holes in the wall etc.. they got hit with both the theft charges as well as the vandalism.

Yes sir, there was a group of VW guys ( like 4-5 guys) cruisning down the street waving in and out of some contruction zone cones. A cop pulls them over and find like 2-3 cameras taping the whole deal. That is how they really nailed for doing it. My question is, isn't that illegal search and proceedure?

 

[VadersV6]

This part of the article cracks me up:

There's another sign the street racers have come to Minneapolis. Honda Civics, the kind favored by street racers, we're coming in with an unusual part missing. Computer modules, stolen from Honda Civics, all within three blocks of each other.
Mechanic Doug Johnson spotted the trend, and called police. And John London, an art teacher in the Seward neighborhood, says it happened to him two weeks ago. Thieves had stolen his 1992 Honda’s internal computer, located right under the passenger dash. Why the computer theft?
"From what I understand they're being modified to make the cars run faster.”
Mechanic Doug Johnson says the computer controls the fuel injection of the engine. Street racers on re-programing the computers to make the Honda go faster -- but they're also frying the car's automotive brains, and need of fresh supply.

I guess a custom tune will fry the computer...unless the automotive brains are something else. Maybe we should call turbo tweak and let them know.

 

[chrisgarrett]

Why aren't some smart businessmen building drag strips? With the obvious popularity of racing, it seems like someone could make a lot of money. Is it the fact that it's illegal that attracts them to it or do they just want to race?

 

[nordy racer]

half that video was a joke.. so i guess when we are all hanging out with our hoods up at a buick car show, we are street racers..

i hope no one video tapes my car at a show and then gets pulled over street racing. Then the police will think i'm a street racer becuase i'm on his video tape .

 

[Whut]

Why aren't some smart businessmen building drag strips? With the obvious popularity of racing, it seems like someone could make a lot of money. Is it the fact that it's illegal that attracts them to it or do they just want to race?

Someone tried, the cities around here do not want the noise associated with it. Nobody takes into account the additional revenue a track would bring to their city. They would rather just build tons of condos and overcrowd the area. Yeah, that makes sense, it will be nice and quiet when 5000 people live in a four square mile radius.

The guy that tried asked something like four cities north and south of Minneapolis and was turned down by each one. He eventually gave in and bought Brainerd International Raceway which is a very nice track. The problem with that is that it is 130+ miles one way from the cities. These kids that drop 25 G's on their car most likely do not have enough left over to buy a truck and trailer so they can trailer the car to the track. Add that it will take over 2 hours just to get to the track makes your average weekend racer go the route of street racing simply because its more convenient. They could lay wagers at the track as long as the track was not making it formal. Who would have to know two guys just laid $800 on a race in the parking lot and then head to the staging lanes to see who will go home with it.

This city is so backwards, their solution to getting rid of street racing is either "put them out of business" or "push them back to the other side of the river". No real solution like taking a plot of land the airport owns and does nothing with and putting even an 1/8th mile municiple track on it. There are places we could put a track that would cut driving down to under 40 minutes but unfortunately you have to many people that whine about noise at 8 PM because they do not want to use the AC or watch TV or do anything besides read a book right next to a window so that even a dog barking would bother them.

 

[SVORay]

Damn, so you can't build something in the county away from people but still not that far away from the kids? We had a simular deal in my town but with kids hanging out. They cracked down hard and now kids sit around drinking. Now the city wonders why we have a high teen drinking rate