Three strikes game over starts next month...bring it on!
I bet hardly any social retards get the bill for their crushed car though.
"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."
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I'm not a hippie ... I have my own arsenal ... when they come for me I'll be ready ... and I reckon I can shoot better than the cops ...
And I've heard exactly the same things said about bike riders ... been hearing it for many many years ... and we're still here ... How many car drivers look at bikers and think "annoying cunts" ... and the same things you're all saying were said in Germany before and during WWII ... "Fuck the Jews . they're getting what they deserve" ... if you can't see the parallels, then we are in deep shit.
I agree boy racers can be annoying .. but hey, when I lived in Chch in the early to mid '70s I was riding a Triumph 650 with no mufflers .. used to love going into the back streets late at night (avoiding cops) .. then bang the bike down a gear or two and listen to the sound bouncing off the houses .. "wake up straights - I'm alive !!!" Why should I now be the judgemental and vindictive one.
The only difference is the time ... and they're on four wheels ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
I actually did give this some serious thought. I do acknowledge there is a bit of contraditction between my libertarian views of things in general, and my desire to put two in the head of every boy racer scumbag I see.
I think what it comes down to is this: Partly jealousy: I'm no longer young, or one of the cool kids (if I ever was). Having said that I remember my teens early 20's as being some staggeringly good moments interspersed with some awful stuff and crushing boredom and all that. Growing up, I think thats called. And I used to be as loose as anyone, on bikes, in cars, annoying. But the key differences are these: Our cars were pieces of shit, generally: Morris minors, morris 1100's, Ford Scrotinas, Ford Escorts, various Jap pieces of crap. They didnt go fast, particularly, or far. Our bikes were "high performance" for the time: but compared with now 200+ kg dry and 80-100 hP in total? not so much. But the biggest difference is, I think, that there were a lot less of us, AND we actively sought to get be somewhere quiet and out of the way and relatively undisturbed: Port Hills, Coes Ford, Selwyn river, or rural south canterbury where I grew up. Or at least escaped from early.
These kids today (yes, I've turned into me Dad) have no respect for anything, and actively congregate where they will be seen, will be the most disruptive, there are heaps of them, and they generally piss me off. Can't we transport them to the Martian penal colonies or something? Dilithium mines of Rura Pente perhaps?
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
Who says I don't get it ... Never travelled in packs of hundreds of bikes - except maybe the Bikoi to Parliament - but certainly travelled in large groups of bikes ... which were much noisier than than the cars now ( no restrictions and hhollow or glass-pack mufflers)
And I seriously doubt there are packs of hundreds of cars .. 200 cars would likely stretch several kilometres. A lot - yes - several hundred ? Naw ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
The cops can't do fuck all about people cruising. It's my right as a citizen to drive around whenever I want, providing the vehicle I am driving is legal and I'm not breaking any road rules. This 'anti cruising law' is not one of those road rules!
A libertarian ??? My God .. I never would have guesed. (not being sarcastic)
I refused to turn into my Dad ... or anything resembling the majority of the previous generation .. I suspect that most of my contemporaries did tho' .. and least you recongise it ...
Yeah, the technology has changed and the cars are much faster and more powerful .. and the car steroes .. I could never afford one until around 1986 (Yeah - I had a deprived childhood) .. but the new ones are bloody loud ... and yeah, we made ourselves scarce generally - less hassle from the cops on the north end of Brighton Beach, or in someone's flat with a couple of joints ... I wonder how many of these boy (and girl) racers are living at home? They couldn't afford to spend money on their their cars if they had to look after themselves as well could they? I certainly couldn't back then - hard enough just to keep it running, let alone tart it up ...
I think all old peope think teenagers should be exported to the planet they really came from ... I wonder what the current crop of teenagers will be complaining about when they are more than 40 years old ?
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Jesus Christ some people know how to make a mountain out of a mole hill don't they? This is an offence aimed at boy racers not bikers. Police are not interested in dealing with bikers just boy racers. The public have had a gutsful, hence new laws like this one and noisy exhaust etc etc. If any boy racers reading this have a problem with the new laws, just remember this: You pricks started it. Go and talk to the Bealey Ave Motel owners who get property damaged and fuckwits doing burnouts on their driveways. Go and talk to the patients at the Southern Cross Hospital who have to be moved during the night because of the noise.
Ever driven down Bealy Ave or Fitzgerald Ave on a Friday or Saturday night? While waiting at a red light you will easily see 20 cars go past on the 3 lanes, if not more. When they get a run on the lights (they had to re-time the lights on Bealy) you will easily get 100 cars moving on masse.
Ah but the council control how the streets are used (do you know you can get a ticket for parking over your own driveway?) and if they decide to restrict access to heavy vehicles (for example. We've all seen the signs around advertising this very fact) they can do. If they choose to restrict access at all, they can do that as well.
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