slats

Darn strait sauce

NightShredder

ok.lol

Triz08

Slats where the hell did i ever say that. I previously agreed that driving racing around in heavy traffic or in residential areas is plain stupid.

slats

You were saying how all of us are a bunch of granny fools who are jealous because we don't horse around all the time....

Triz08

ok find me a dessert let alone a road where there isnt more then 10 cars in sight in florida. Or maybe i can make an hour drive and take my car to the track...

slats

AND you gotta a suck arse attitude toward cops. I'd like to see how long you'd last on a public road if there were no laws enforced..... They are just doing their jobs anyway.

sauceman

Common sense would dictate you do the latter. Or just refrain.

You can't use that as an excuse once you've killed someone.

Whiskers

It's ok, once you hit the age of 22 the itch to race is gone.

NightShredder

I run my car hard as well, only when the only person I could kill is me. I would have only myself to blame.

I also don't think it is an age thing. I think it is a matter of smarts. I have friends who pull that kind of shit and I always give them a hard time about it. I just don't think that they are smart enough to know what they do. I always tell them about actions and consequences. You race and kill someone you go to jail. Plain and simple. I work in a law office and have seen it many times before.

Triz08

that was meant to be a sarcastic statement, hence the

sauceman

Actually not...



Maybe it goes with kids though... but then again, maybe not even.

slats

I usually like what you have to say, wsklar, but this time I have to disagree. I'm 23 and the itch is plently strong!

Triz08

Ok everyone critisize me without even knowing who the hell i am. You dont even wanna know how many times ive been harrassed by dirty cops around ft lauderdale in florida.

xizor

if everyone was smart about street racing people wouldn't get in accidents or die from it. obviously you're not going to be as smart as you think, especially when adrenaline kicks in and you're speeding along. if you have an attitude that you're invincible you're going to make a costly mistake.

slats

So you generalize that they are all worthless bastards??

Triz08

Yes

sauceman

You probably deserved it, seeing the attitude you are showing here.

And if you are dumb enough to post about something like this, we will positively, definitely criticize you. What we know of you is what you post. Period. Act accordingly. You laid your bed, now lie in it you whiny little bitch.

Just be glad you were not having this conversation face to face with me, I'd be sooo tempted to punch my point through your mind.

Triz08

I NEVER want to see any of you all ever post about a race or hear you guys going over the speed limit at all after this.

Whiskers

25 I remember being young and trying to race in my 82 Ford Escort. Maybe if I had a fast car, I would feel different. Seriously, it is dangerous and it should only be done in controlled situations like a track.

sauceman

Answering back at cops harrassment by racing and driving like a chicken with no head is just soo clever!

Triz08

I can really care less about you guys critisize me. I kind of saw it coming when writing that first post, but hey its why i did it.

Whiskers

sauceman

You remind me of another guy we flamed (he isn't here anymore I think) because he bitched and moaned because he got arrested while DUI.

NightShredder

I've met alot of crooked a$$ cops before. My reasoning is the same as I use with everyone, cops or not. In life you are going to have nice people and jerks that is the way it is and the way it will always be. So I agree, I try to avoid cops as much as possible. One thing to consider is not every cop is a a$$hole. Some actually do their job to protect you and I and for those cops rock on

I think everyone is critizing your bad attitude not necessarily you. When I was your age I must admit I was a little worse.

Triz08

See you do not understand at all, id be driving my old 93 ford probe with i/h/e straight through exhuast, very loud and ricey. I was going the speed limit, gpt pulled over, they LIED and said i was going 20 over, i confronted him and and he started going off calling him a liar. He pulled me out my car frisked me, and then ripped apart my entire car and searched it clean... I have been frisked,searched, and even threatened by cops a number of times being so polite each time. They ALL have their power trips and get off from it.

Triz08

Night, man i know i agree with you. Its just too much fun going back and forth on these forums, its enjoyable for me =)

sauceman

Happens. Get rid of teh rice car, and you've already solved 90% of your problem then.

You shouldn't regret, it's a frikkin Probe!

Triz08

yeah thats why i freaked out coming into the TSX as my next car. Still in love with it too much. Guys you know i enjoy being an asshole correct?

Hey i got the car for 1000 dollars!!! For my family nor me not having mopney at that time at all, i was more than happy drivng around that car

NightShredder

When I was in college I had very similar experiences and opinions as Trizo8. I used to bartend and there was one of my regulars who was a sheriff and he would always come in on very slow nights. Sometimes there was nobody else to talk to but him and in hindsight it was a blessing in disguise. The blessing was he helped me to see what the other side went through. One conversation really sticks in my mind. He explained to me that every encounter he has with someone (who is being polite or not, it doesn't really matter) there is ALWAYS at least one gun involved, his. He knows it and so does the person he is talking to. That puts them at an unfair advantage. You could have a gun, he doesn't know, only you do. That is alot of responsibility hanging over someone's head. Especially someone with children and a family. Most of the people are polite and those are the ones that tend to be up to something. So they frisk you so that he (or she) knows that you have no weapons and then can talk to you a little different.

Triz08

yeah sounds right. Have you ever encountered a cop who has raided your entire car, found drugs, got in his car, and left. Pretty wierd isnt it, especially when he had a 2nd cop car come along with him...

NightShredder

No, but this guy I knew had that happen to him going east through Kansas. Without saying how much it was if the cop didn't drive away I probably wouldn't have seen him in a few decades. So sometimes I am glad there are corrupt cops.

He would have gone to the federal prision too. Not the cushy state places. Crossing state borders is very bad.

Triz08

Yeah, ok guys im done being an asshole. I really dont drive that crazy, just enjoy my car alot.

JPL530i

come on, gimme a fuckkin break, sauce. are you saying that having a rice car is a threat to society? are you discriminating against a ricer? if am wrong, i apologize sincerely.

people love to mod their car different ways. some like wheels. some like stereo system. some like exhaust. different car produces different exhaust sound. and some people happen to like that loud and obnoxious lawn mower sound. do i like it? no, i don't the sound of it. does it bother me? of course not. people have different taste in all sort of things.

what about the pick-up trucks with these loud harley-davidson-alike exhaust. or better yet, harley bikes? i have never ever seen one got pulled over, never! please enlighten me with your explaination

there's a guy i know who is a student at UMASS. he has an older version of civic si all decked out. it's black and legally tinted. he told me cops pulled him over for no fuccing reason. every cop that pulled him over said the same mother-fuccin b.s. line "your tail light is out!" each and everytime he got pulled, he already knew what the cop was gonna say. and you know something, it's aint the tail light. it's nothing wrong with his car. nothing at all. you know how many times he got pulled over? 7 times. yes, 7! the seventh time, he got pulled over by some dunkin donut eating mother fuccin cop, he politely asked the cop if he could check his tail light right on the spot. officer said "yes!" he stepped out and found nothing wrong with it. the smartest thing he said to that cop "you pulled me over bc i'm DWB?" the funny thing is the cop let him go in a heartbeat. he took law class and he remembered what he learned. it just didn't darn on him til the 7th time. well gentlemen, he got pulled over 7 times because they thought he's a drug dealer. yes, he is black. get my point? fyi, DWB=driving while black.

there are bad cops and good cops. the forementioned outnumbers the later. i had many cops coming to my store when i used to own it. believe me, some of them were plain ignorant and cocky. sometimes i wonder if these cops got bullied or they weren't liked back in h.s. now that they have that fuccin batch, they think they're the shiznit.

sorry i had to vent. and TRIZ, becareful, pal. if it's not you, it's the other driver. at times, i feel older drivers are more dangerous to the other drivers than the street racers. i have witnessed it.

05_TSX_GP

That's it!?!? I just caught up reading back all the posts I missed in the past couple hours... and no more back and forth now?

Oh well, I've stated my on street racing on other thread(s).

Bottom line: street racing <---

Simple reason: innocent lives risked in the hands of thrill seekers

Simple solution: do it on race track

Borderline solutions:
- enjoy hard driving alone with no others around (that's what I choose to do, very carefully)
- drag race on some back roads where no other people in 5 blocks radius (still very borderline and I have never done)

vger105

Well-put!
Two high school students here on Long Island were recently sentenced to jail for killing two people while street racing (Corvette and Mercedes). They were racing at over 100 mph on a divided four lane highway. A couple in a Grand Cherokee was making a turn onto the road on which they were racing. The cars racing each other slammed into the Jeep, killing both occupants.
Part of the problem seems to be the reduced number of cops on the roads. People here zoom through red lights, stop signs, etc. with impunity.

05_TSX_GP

Here in Greater Vancouver, there've been several cases with innocent deaths caused by street racers - including one young cop t-boned by a speeding Civic-R doing 130km/h running a red. Incidentally, today is that driver's hearing day for some house probation - after serving less than 1/6 of his 2-year-less-1-day sentence. The sentence was way too light to begin with, and now after serving only less than 4 months, he can apply for some probation out of the jail house!!!??? Our system is failing us...

JTso

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sauceman, I totally agree with you. If someone doing reckless shit around me or my family, I might just pull a vigilante justice on the dumbass!

nagidizy

You never know what you might be up against. I was driving a friend's old Mazda pickup, totally laden with stuff I was carting to a storage locker, when a slightly modded late model Nissan Z-car pulled up beside me at a red light and proceeded to rev his engine and generally act aggressive. Little did he know that in that old truck was ... a very old engine. I was amazed that he thought I was worthy. I mean, come on now, racing against a clapped out old truck? Loaded?

Then I noticed a car on the other side of him (left). A mid-nineties Mustang. Going "rump ... (long pause) ... whump whump ... pause .... rump". Any fool who has worked on American iron or been around cars for a while could elucidate the clear indications of a heavily-fortified built engine lurking in the 'Stang. Except for the Z-car driver, who nailed it hard when the light turned green. Mr. 'Stang just waited a bit, pause for effect, and then unleased the beast. Game over. I noticed his license plate said "Nitemare" as he leaped into warp drive ...

Might as well relate incident #2, also. California, 1981. Just turned nightfall near Santa Barbara. Something flew by me at a high rate of speed. A few seconds later, a Corvette flew by in hot pursuit. Both vehicles were slowed by traffic and lights ahead, so I managed to get close enough to witness Round 2 and the KO. Corvette briefly closed on Vehicle #1, at which point Vehicle #1 got serious, squatted down and disappeared faster than Luke Skywalker launching an X-Wing fighter. Got close enough beforehand to notice what Vehicle #1 was: a nice pretty little Karman Ghia ... obviously had eaten its' Wheaties.

Of course, this in no way condones the irresponsible behavior of these horrible people.

sauceman

Yep, got me wrong.

I was saying riced-up cars are cop-magnets.

05_TSX_GP

and usually the cops are correct with their instincts regarding riced-up cars and their occupants.