Death by Boy Racer

[onearmedbandit]

As soon as they rack up fines over $1000 send em to jail for a month, and while they are in there they can do $1000 worth of work. And when they get out they can pay teh $1000 worth of fines.

Repeat until they learn.


And serious repercussions for killing with a car, Something along the lines of a bullet to the head would suffice,and a bullet for their lawyer if they try and blame the road or the car.

Sounds good. But putting them into a normal jail could also have the opposite effect, making them more anti-social and angry towards the police and general public, and also teach them skills that we most definitely don't want them working.

Come on all you people crying for boy racer's blood, surely you have a magical one-stop-fix that no one else has thought of and is faultless.

[Headbanger]

Sounds good. But putting them into a normal jail could also have the opposite effect, making them more anti-social and angry towards the police and general public, and also teach them skills that we most definitely don't want them working.

Tough shit on them, Put em back in jail.

Repeat as necessary.

If they don't learn then they get to make a life long commitment to being in jail.

[dipshit]

So they put this ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=6rMujP38l_k ) shit on TV every Sunday and call it "sport" then act surprised when the kiddies try to drive the same way on the streets...???

Sometimes society isn't that bright.

[onearmedbandit]

Tough shit on them, Put em back in jail.

Repeat as necessary.

If they don't learn then they get to make a life long commitment to being in jail.

Ok, but who is going to pay for that? And where do we build these extra jails? And what becomes of our future in NZ? As I'm sure a lot of these 'boy racers' will grow out of their ways and become successful members of society, we will lose a lot of our talent as they will be rotting in jail all because we couldn't handle them being young.

[onearmedbandit]

So they put this ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=6rMujP38l_k ) shit on TV every Sunday and call it "sport" then act surprised when the kiddies try to drive the same way on the streets...???

Sometimes society isn't that bright.

I take it that's a drifting video (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm currently on dial up). What about drag racing? Should we ban that too? How about rally racing? Or any sort of racing? Bike racing?

[Headbanger]

Ok, but who is going to pay for that? And where do we build these extra jails? And what becomes of our future in NZ? As I'm sure a lot of these 'boy racers' will grow out of their ways and become successful members of society, we will lose a lot of our talent as they will be rotting in jail all because we couldn't handle them being young.

Most of em will change their ways when instead of getting their fines wiped they are faced with real world repercussions, The few that decide to be career criminals can be accommodated for, and are probably heading down that path anyway.

Most of them do what they because its a bit of a lark,Nothing wrong with that, But when it gets out of hand it needs to be reigned in.

[onearmedbandit]

Most of them do what they because its a bit of a lark,Nothing wrong with that, But when it gets out of hand it needs to be reigned in.

I agree completely, but how can it be done effectively. It's all good and proper to jump and down pointing fingers (this is not aimed at you Headbanger, none of it has been) but it's all wasted air if no one can actually take stock of the situation and suss out an effective method of controlling it. Until someone does, all the angst and name calling won't change a thing.

[PirateJafa]

No parent in there right mind would choose a nissan s15............. 20 aye...... says it all , come back in 15-20years

For gods sake you old faggot. He made a number of valid points in there, but all you saw was the words "I'm only 20" and instantly decided that his opinion was worth squat.

My girlfriend has a Mazda MX6. She's not a boyracer - she just wanted a car that had enough power to overtake other vehicles without putting a piston through the head, and could happily navigate the back-country roads to her place.

I myself had a Honda Accord, which you regularly see driving around with a pair of 3-inch exhausts sticking out the rear and plenty of "doof-doof" sounds emanating. I bought it because it was powerful enough to tow my track bike to the track with ease.

By the sound of it, in your eyes every person under 30 who has worked up the money to buy a tidy car that isn't a Corolla is pretty much a boyracer.

Luckily, nobody under 30 in their right mind would give a shit about the opinion of a faggot like you (besides maybe wasting a few hundred bytes of bandwidth on yer).

I'll wait for the official police report before I have any damning thoughts one way or the other.

[dipshit]

I take it that's a drifting video (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm currently on dial up). What about drag racing? Should we ban that too? How about rally racing? Or any sort of racing? Bike racing?

Yes it's a clip from a NZ drifting programme on TV.

Rallying makes a good example. They have been doing it for years but seem to be able to keep a handle on it by self policing itself with strict rules. Like anybody getting caught doing unofficial practice runs on a stretch of road or having competition numbers on a car when not competing gets banned.

Drifting to the car world is about as stupid as stunting is to the motorcycle world. Imagine the image of motorcycle in NZ if stunting became even more popular and had its own TV programme inspiring all the young wankers that are hitting the streets.

[R-Soul]

Like Flip said they can use Ruapuna, Why should our rates go towards providing a strip for them to race on. If they want to race then they should go join a club and do it in a proper controlled enviroment.

Like I said, Ruapuna is expensive. And FFS a cement strip hardly costs a bomb. And it pays itself back in reduced cop time wastage.

And I dont know about you, but when I finally went on track and could do things at stupid speeds safely, it actually got the monkey off my back and I felt no need to go fast at all on the road after that. No more 'points to prove' as it were.

[Headbanger]

Rallying makes a good example. They have been doing it for years but seem to be able to keep a handle on it by self policing itself with strict rules. Like anybody getting caught doing unofficial practice runs on a stretch of road or having competition numbers on a car when not competing gets banned.

More likely its simply due to the fact we dont have gravel roads in our cities.

There is no one to show off to out in rural NZ, and it takes real skill to drive fast on a gravel road. They would be getting dead as soon as they started and there wouldn't be anyone around to get impressed while they done it.

[FJRider]

More likely its simply due to the fact we dont have gravel roads in our cities.

There is no one to show off to out in rural NZ, and it takes real skill to drive fast on a gravel road. They would be getting dead as soon as they started and there wouldn't be anyone around to get impressed while they done it.

AND ... tends to scare the shit (literally) out of any passengers ... even if it is done well ... or not ...

[R-Soul]

I'm guessing you don't have kids? Had the child lost in this 'unfortunate accident' been mine .... Christ, it doesn't bear thinking about.

'... affected parties'? This mother's life just totally fucking imploded. Her whole life will be divided into two; the life before this and the life after. You have no idea. No disrespect to you but it's this kind of ambivalence that results in the kind of reckless disregard for people (real people with lives and families who care about them and who want to see them again) that we see on our roads every day.

Brilliantly said. I am afraid that people without kids will just never understand that kind of love. Lets face - it before kids, everyone lives a very selfish life. And to them incidents like this cause 'collateral damage' which is acceptable as long as its not to them. Its only when you have kids, and your whole life revolves around pure unconditionl love for them, and bringing them up the best you can, and protecting them, that you really realise what "precious" means, and you truly feel for the parents of a child killed like this.

As an idea of the pain and suffering to a "selfish single"- it is like losing an arm and a leg and your sight all at once, and it will hurt more. Your life will be divided between before and after. You WILL NEVER recover.

[imdying]

Like I said, Ruapuna is expensive.

No no, it's quite cheap! Recommended if you're down this way!

[dipshit]

There is no one to show off to out in rural NZ, and it takes real skill to drive fast on a gravel road. They would be getting dead as soon as they started and there wouldn't be anyone around to get impressed while they done it.

Quite true. Most young rednecks give it a bit of a go and just end up sticking their cars down a few banks and through a few fences... then give up ( grow up ) and decide to leave it to the professionals.