New boy racer legislation

[The Stranger:Me]

why the fuck do they need to make another bullshit law to deal with these fuckwits? what is wrong with using the dangerous driving, speeding, drunk driving, assualt, etc laws that already exist.

there is going to be so many variations of basically the same type of law soon, that the coppers are going to have to have fuckin lawyers degrees to work out which one to apply.

they need to simplify the existing laws and apply them properly instead of inventing new ones.

soon it will be illegal to listen to anything other than classic hits on your car stereo because it might frighten the blue rinse brigade.

Nah, you're wrong!
With this new law he could have quickly grabbed a pen and instantly issued 300 cease and desist orders. That would have fixed those boy racers good and proper!

[The Stranger:Me]

Bullshit.

If 300 bikers mobbed and shot at a police officer, we'd deserve to get this legislation on us.

The boy racer problem is way out of control - most Fridays and Saturdays the boy racers use my road as a fucking race track - I've lost count of the amount of times they've crashed on my corner. Most of the time they're drunk. I've stopped bothering to go help, if they bleed to death, it's their problem.

This doesn't affect us, or concern us.

"Prime Minister John Key says law changes to crack down on boy racers would be implemented quickly, possibly within six months."

Southern Area Commander Inspector Malcolm Johnston said... "This is not boy racer activity. This is thuggery."

[nodrog:Me]

... "This is not boy racer activity. This is thuggery."

great! now they are going to pass laws making thuggery illegal as well i suppose?

[Skyryder]

The fact that individuals can hide behind a large gathering and commit offences not only against the police as happened her in Chch this weekend but the public at large also does need some kind of drastic response. This sort of behavour simply can not be allowed to continue. It's a problem of identifying the indavidual that hides behind the crowd and not one so much of driving laws etc. This to me seems to be the issue. While I am not entirely in agreement with this proposed legislation the police do need some, and I say this with some hesitation, powers of mass arrest if only for processing reasons for future enquiries where incedents of a simular nature occured here in Christchurch. I would be extreemly concerned if this carried on with a prosecution simply on the basis of being in the vicinity where an incident ocurred.

My main concern is that legislation is not discriminatory and while I can see no other groups at present that pose the sort of problems that the so called boy racers do I can not help but wonder who this would be turned on once the boy racer problem is resolved. I would be a bit more enthusiastic about this if the proposed legislation had a built in expirary date so that if these laws needed to be extended this could be debated in a more enlightened environment than at present.

My own gut feeling on this is that there needs to be some kind of legislation where the courts have imposed some penalty by way of loss of licence and the car impounded etc there needs to be some measures taken for the prevention of purchasing a new vehicle. Shut down the credit supply by making it an offence to give credit for the purchase of a vehicle for say five years coupled with an extended period of loss of licence for an equivalent time for weekends (when most of these problem occure) and you will solve this problem over night. No chick who is interested in boy racers is going to get involved with the ‘passanger’ so you have reduced his sex life and by extending a weekend ban for a long time you will remove the individual from the boy racer crowd.

There you are Jude C. go for it.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

As Judith Collins said herself on the news - cars should be crushed.

That would really start sending the message to these very immature youths.

They show no respect for the law or anyone else.

I would love for them to stream the crushing of their tin can cars on website.

I think they should be required to press the button too and the Judge order all their mates along to watch.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

Nah, you're wrong!
With this new law he could have quickly grabbed a pen and instantly issued 300 cease and desist orders. That would have fixed those boy racers good and proper!

Someone needs to design a taser shot gun. They could all drown in their own vomit

Skyryder

[ckai]

So these guys in Chch were allegedly doing burnouts? Obviously someone saw them for this to be reported. If this is the case then by someone seeing them, their cars can be confiscated. It's happened before - a rather high profile case with expensive car involved. I don't get it?

If the cop got hemmed in and had to bugger off, then he can grab some mates later and start grabbing cars. Of course this would depend on accurate decriptions of car for witnesses.

So the high profile case didn't actually do what the judge entended it to do? I bet some people are pissed off about that

[howdamnhard]

As Judith Collins said herself on the news - cars should be crushed.

That would really start sending the message to these very immature youths.

They show no respect for the law or anyone else.

I would love for them to stream the crushing of their tin can cars on website.

What he said,crush their cars.

[Max Preload]

Bullshit.

If 300 bikers mobbed and shot at a police officer, we'd deserve to get this legislation on us.

But that's not the only way it will be able to be used - it will be used when you have a personality conflict with a cop who has pulled you over and he can't get you for anything else. Police already have sufficient powers to deal with rioters, disorder and arguably far too many to deal with vehicles like "It sounds too loud to me - here's your sticker!" and "You took off too fast and it looked like you were racing that other vehicle, so I'm taking your vehicle for 28-days".

The fact of the matter is that as much of a pain these Christchurch clowns are, I strongly object to legislation that is purely subjective in nature because history has shown that it will be misused.

[DarkLord]

Also agree with the crushing of the cars.

Correct me if I am wrong, but once the cars have been impounded, are they not just sold off again? so therefore what is to stop another boy racer shelling out his student loan or whatever on another racers car that was impounded? The car is off the road for a while, sure, but then it just ends up back on it again.

If the cars are destroyed, there is no chance of anyone else getting their hands on a previously impounded car so you would hope that this would start to drastically lessen the amount of boy racer cars on the road.

[The Pastor]

good lord burnouts! the horrors!

[idb]

Typical though, nothing is done until a poor policeman is a little bit frightened!!!
What about all of the innocent citizens of that have been terrorised over the years and everyone has sat on their hands...bloody hypocrites!!!
Cops are pricks!!!

We need a new super hero that will protect us...someone with a past full of demons and who suffers flashbacks at inconvenient moments of danger but can no longer sit idly by and watch the criminal underworld force the good citizens to live in fear in their own homes.

He must have a cool rubber suit as well.

[woza]

Boy racers have been around for decades, you will never stop young males modifying cars and doing burn outs.

However attacking a police officer is stupid and deserves some harse penalties.

[Max Preload]

Correct me if I am wrong, but once the cars have been impounded, are they not just sold off again?

Incorrect. Only the Court can confiscate and sell a vehicle. Vehicles impounded under the existing 'Boy Racer' legislation are returned after 28-days and payment of the towage & storage charges.

[nodrog:Me]

We need a new super hero that will protect us...someone with a past full of demons and who suffers flashbacks at inconvenient moments of danger but can no longer sit idly by and watch the criminal underworld force the good citizens to live in fear in their own homes.

He must have a cool rubber suit as well.

i vote for Orgazmo