Drop-kicks on Cambell Live

[Damon]

What a bunch of idiots, I couldn't believe it when they tried to blame the cops for making them speed "the cops made me do it "

If you are being "pushed" but the cops to the point you are not comfortable then pull over?? If the cops are chasing you too closely, you’re not going to get away, give it up and pull over! Getting a fine seems allot better than killing yourself and your friends,

It seems to effect them all, I was shocked when that kid died in Hastings and his mates decided "pay a tribute" by doing burnouts and handbrake turns outside his funeral in front of his family?!?!?!

There just doesn't seem to be a way to explain their lack of brains, they get no sympathy from me

[Drunken Monkey]

Get off the lawns! I know your father! Where's my false teeth? ...

[TonyB]

I wondered if there'd be a thread about this. I wondered if the media had carefully selected these guys to get their point across- Lets see, we had one guy whos eye's didn't point the same way, one who had huge horse teeth and looked like the top of his head had caved in, one normal looking guy, and some 30 year old looser who has to hang out with 'boys'. Hmmm. It would appear from what the 'boy racers' were saying, that the nasty cops scare them with their big flashing lights. Poor widdle fellas!

Apart from that, nothing else they said made any sense. Aparently the police aren't trying to apprehend these guys, oh no, they are trying to RACE them The "winner" is the one who doesn't make a mistake leading to an accident, capture (in the boy racers case) or death. If the cop crashes, you "won". If the cop dies you "won". What was the comment Master Horseteeth made? someething like, if they can keep up with you then, yeh, they can drive, if they can't then they can't drive.

What pissed me off was TV3 pandering to this bullshit concept by repeatedly calling them "Racers"

[Lou Girardin]

It seems to effect them all, I was shocked when that kid died in Hastings and his mates decided "pay a tribute" by doing burnouts and handbrake turns outside his funeral in front of his family?!?!?!

It seems that the father of one of the dead kids asked them to do it. As a "tribute".

[Damon]

It seems that the father of one of the dead kids asked them to do it. As a "tribute".

Why would you glorify the actions that killed your son as a tribute at his funeral? perhaps stupidity is hereditary

[yungatart]

It seems to effect them all, I was shocked when that kid died in Hastings and his mates decided "pay a tribute" by doing burnouts and handbrake turns outside his funeral in front of his family?!?!?!

This was done at the request of the dead kid's family.

[Lou Girardin]

Why would you glorify the actions that killed your son as a tribute at his funeral? perhaps stupidity is hereditary

The definitive argument for compulsory sterilisation and retrospective abortion for those they miss.

[TonyB]

BUT- what would WE come across like? Could those of us that love to go scratching or pull wheelies etc etc put across their reasons eloquently when put in front of a camera? Especially when we know it's going to be edited to reinforce the producers point?

MrB, can you please tell our veiwers why you like riding your motorcycle on winding roads at speeds significantly higher than the surrounding traffic?

Umm- 'cause it gives me an adrenaline buzz and it's....fun....and....stuff

[ManDownUnder]

The definitive argument for compulsory sterilisation and retrospective abortion for those they miss.

Sounds a lot like this guy I read about... ran Germany up till about 60 years ago

[madboy]

I reckon it was very carefully edited to ensure that those boyracers came across like complete and utter flipping morons. Okay, sure, they may well have been, but I reckon the balancing comments they may have made could have been edited out for the extremism that is promoted for good TV.

The point I wished they could have got across is that the cops don't necessarily report the accurate information to comms, and they don't necessarily pull out when the say they do (or are told to). And if someone feeds me the bullshit that they don't do that anymore, that things have changed, I've got a couple of stories I wouldn't share publicly that give me reason to doubt it.

But really when you've got cretins driving like idiots, cops will chase. If they don't chase, then what's the friggin point in having cops? Chases are dangerous. No way to avoid that. Even attempting to stop someone is dangerous, because if they bolt, they don't back off just cos the cop turned his lights off and slowed down. The whole point of a pursuit is not to have fun, it's to get away with whatever you were doing wrong in the first place without any consequences. Unfortunately some people get too enthusiastic and end up crashing, which is usually a really bad consequence - much worse than the fines/disq you would have had to start with.

If I get chased, I don't EVER button off until I'm a LONG way down the road, or home. Which means a "pursuit" that officially lasts for all of 10 seconds (the time it takes a car to turn around and realise that they can't see the bike anymore) will have me going flat tack for probably 5 minutes until I'm long gone. So I off it 4.5 mins after the cop tried to pull me over and I'm doing 260k splitting cars. I don't ordinarily do 260k splitting cars. But if it's that or instant loss of license, I'll take the chances thank you. But even though I off it as a direct result of the cop trying to stop me, it's not their fault that I off it - it's mine.

These little cretins need to take responsiblity. You do the crime, and sooner or later you have to pay your dues. Don't blame the pigs. I blame the cops for plenty of things - perjury and for continuing very dangerous pursuits (contrary to what "procedure" says), but if I off it doing a runner, the responsibility lies with me... unless the cops take me out...

[**R1**]

For sure madboy...


I have often thought about looking for the coppers and baiting them, I know its stupid but it one thing i would love to have on film, and lets face it, its not hard to get away.....the one thing that holds me back is......well at least i think it is comon sence..

Doing the bolt for any other reason than saving your bacon(excuse the pun) is asking for what ever you end up getting.......


And how drug fucked were those cocks on that show???? wish they wernt from Chch, at least they would stand out in a crowd aye....wounder if the coppers know their parents are brother and sister?

[Lou Girardin]

Sounds a lot like this guy I read about... ran Germany up till about 60 years ago

That's him, but he didn't have boy racers to hate so he chose Jews.
There probably wouldn't have been any fuss if he'd gassed 6,000,000 boy racers.

[Lou Girardin]

I don't know if you'd call it 'balance'. But when one of the yokels said they did it to impress girls. One of the girls said that they weren't impressed. Something along the line of "boys and their toys".

[Damon]

Nice argument madboy, I think if your out there doing stupid things and get caught, once you decide to run what ever happens next is your fault, it's not "I crashed because the cops chased me to close" or "I crashed because the police didn't pull back and stop chasing me", it's "I crashed and killed my two friends because I was doing dumb things and then tried to run."

When I was growing up my father told me that being a man ment that I stood up for what I believed in and I took responsibility for my own actions, perhaps this is why they are still called "Boy"racers.

[gamgee]

almost got knocked off by a bus today when turning right fucken boy racer in his hotted up bus decided to run an orange light nearly sideswiped a 4wd which i was following round the corner on the orange light as we'd got stuck out a bit from where the lines are while waiting for a gap to turn, gap opened on the orange light and the 4wd went then the dick in the bus floors it so i'm like 'fuck he's not stopping' slam on the brakes, bus driver doesn't even hesitate and barrels straight through narrowly missing both me and the 4wd that went, then i just casually drive round the corner as if nothing happened, but when i see three buses lined up going 40km/h up stuart street haha i got my own back dropped two gears and flew past them. cunts. (sorry didn't think it was worth a new thread, and this is a topic about wank drivers anyway)