Street Racing: The carnage continues

[Brucelee]

Part of maturing is understanding that what you did or are doing is really very stupid. Once you have a child, it is time to get smart pretty quickly.

Obviously, this doesn't happen as much as we would like.

[LoveBunny]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

Part of maturing is understanding that what you did or are doing is really very stupid. Once you have a child, it is time to get smart pretty quickly.

Obviously, this doesn't happen as much as we would like.

yeah, seriously. I don't have chlidren, but I can't for the life of me imagine street racing (if I was so inclined) with my dog even in the car, let alone a baby. I used to even drive slower when my ex's 5-year-old son was in the back.

[Burg Boxster]

Originally Posted by LoveBunny

I used to even drive slower when my ex's 5-year-old son was in the back.

Hey LB it's illegal to put children in the trunk of a vehicle no matter how slow you drive

[Topless]

In my youth I lost two friends to canyon racing. One was high speed motorcycle crosses center line meets pickup truck head on. The other, less than a year later was 90mph hot rod Chevy over a cliff. I miss those guys. Kinda took the party out of street racing for me.

Last week I was passed on the freeway by two cars going 100+ and diving in and out of traffic. One narrowly missed clipping a mommobile SUV. Where is that hood mounted 20mm cannon when you really need it.

[dmcutter]

Sorry, but you can't mount a 20 mm cannon on a 2.5 ltr base Box. The recoil would overcome the forward thrust of your woefully underpowered engine. You need at least a 3.2 to mount a hood cannon.

[Brucelee]

We see this kind of nonsense here in SOCAL everyday. These knotheads play with Play Station and then out and emulate.

Where is my aluminum baseball bat again?

[23109VC]

street racing that leads to a fatality should be charged in court as a murder.

some jurisdictions are doing it already.

In CA, and many other states, it is common for repeat DUI offenders who crash/kill someone while once again driving DUI to be charged with 2nd degree murder. Why not do this for repeat racers. In some ways it's even more aggravating. Some of the DUI drivers are so "out of it" that they don't fully comprehend the danger they are creating. Most of the street racers know exactly what they are doing... such a waste to lose a life over something as trivial as trying to show off how fast your car is...

[blinkwatt]

Street racing in stupid. I've never done it but I've been to a couple of 'street races'. Most of the people there are the same ones who put those huge rear spoilers on their cars,bahahahaha. If you going to do it go out to a closed business district super late at night,but even then, .

It just not worth the risk,you can't control the variables/environment and going to a track or autocross only cost $20.

[LoveBunny]

Originally Posted by Burg Boxster

Hey LB it's illegal to put children in the trunk of a vehicle no matter how slow you drive

Ahh, that was in an SUV!

I guess my dad used to street race when he was young, but at least they did it on windy roads out in the middle of nowhere. He flipped an MG over and flew out and busted himself up pretty badly. He was lucky though. If he'd stayed in the car he would have probably broken his neck. Now at age 67 he drives slow as a snail.