Is crushing modified cars a good way to teach the street racers a lesson?

I think a more reasonable way to teach street racers is to charge them with a ticket/points on drivers license. Taking their car and destroying it just isn’t justified.

I’ve never heard of this being done!

It sounds like a bunch of B.S. to me!

I think he means if they started doing that.
Although his description says he’s seen it been done…

well not actually.. they have been doing ti for a while.. they even make the racers go and watch their own car be crushed .. you should research it

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2b2IcDaCpFQ

you should watch this video.. they crush the cars because people get car parts that are sometimes stolen or illegal.. so they crush the cars so that they can learn their leason. i guess

but personally i know that crushing them doesnt help anything.. they are still gonna get more parts and amke new and better cars.. and they are going to watch out for cops more.. i know i would

In what country does this occur?

well mostly in california.. but i guess in places where theres racing

U.S. only i think.. and its illegal racing..

ok heres a better video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exgEkySxDFc

I don’t care if they crush their cars to exactly the same degree of disregard that illegal street racers care who they could hurt with their criminal actions.

well thats true.. its illegal.. but they dont have to crush them. thats not really changing anyting to them, they just get another car. even in the videos people say that is not stopping them. they will just find another way of doing it. the cops should stop them and give them tickets.. take the car away and make the people pay to get it back… it hurts more if u spend all that money on a car and get it taken away and have to pay even more to get it back then to pay just to get it taken away. they will just make another one.

well i dont know anything really about racing but i just dont think its fair for the cars to get crushed. (personally)

@melly6708 I do. It’s a punishment that fits the crime. The car is their weapon. It should be confiscated and rendered unusable.

I wouldn’t want my car to be crushed.
one of my friends friend had a car with an illegal engine and it was straight piped.
he got pulled over, he wasn’t racing and nothing like that, anyways he got pulled over for being to loud.
the police cheked the motor and noticed that the numbers weren’t matching with the car. So he got a ticket, went to court then to see his car get crushed. It might be illegal but it sucks.

Street racing should be more heavily prosecuted if you ask me. I’ve read too many local stories about little kids getting killed by these faux-though guy assholes and their total disregard for everything.

Well yeah it’s a weapon .. but some of them do it for fun.. to them it’s a sport.

they don’t do it to hurt anyone… the police should do something else to try and stop them because crushing the cars doesn’t really help… theres still people that race

I say crush away. It is illegal. Plain and simple. You play, you pay. I street race from time to time. I once even raced for a pink slip. It is bogus but that is what makes it. I also just had a mint 72 SS El Camini with a brand new 396SS stolen from me. They came and towed it away. My engine and parts are prolly in one of your friends cars right now. I now race an Audi A4 with S chip in it. I also have a gps tracker hidden in the car just incase that gets stolen from me to.

i guess thats the risk they are willing to take

DOES IT MAKE IT EVEN MORE FUN KNOWING THAT YOU CAN GET CAUGHT??
i dont know

.. now that i think about it.. thats what probably happened to my neighbor.. they are always outside fixing them.. and then one night it disappeared.

take it to the track and have no worries.

the nearest track around here is irwindale speedway…

Illegal street racing kills innocent people and puts the general public in danger…how about making the offenders strip their cars down for parts, make them sell them on eBay, then force them to donate all the proceeds to families of the victims who have been killed by this senseless behavior.

it is not like people race on busy city streets. We used to race onramps and cloverleafs outside the city.

People do race on busy streets, that’s the problem.

Inexperienced drivers
+ illegal aftermarket modifications
+ delusions of invincibility
= astoundingly bad idea

and freeways / highways in moderate traffic; they are often the cause of other motorists’ losing control of their vehicles when these tuners “bob and weave” through traffic and cut off law-abiding motorists…I’ve seen it many times here in Los Angeles, and it enfuriates me to see this blatant disregard for the general safety of the public for the sake of a thrill.

That said, I’m all for creating venues appropriate for open street racing, as long as its done safely, with law enforcement supervision, and crowd safety in mind.

Melly: This situation you ask about is all about stolen cars or cars with major components that were stolen. These dopes just happened to racing, giving the cops a reason to stop them and make the determiation the cars were made up with stolen parts. It wasn’t the racing that got put their car in the crusher. Must be a bummer to watch you wheels getting smushed.