Boy Racers
From:
Paula Lambert
Date:
Mar 11 02:25 UTC
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While I definately have some sympathy for your problem, I have to comment
that I used to do burnouts on my motorbike. I paid for them, they were my
tyres. It wasn't particularly noisy or smelly either. Its 1-2 minutes of
fun, providing you can stay upright LOL.
I was at a 60th birthday on the weekend. Males and some females were
discussing what they would have done with the new whizzy cars young people
have now. There was quite a bit of enthusiasm.
Lets keep some perspective here. Do you really wish environment police on
your grandchildren ? What is the world coming to . . .
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:18 PM, W Shaw <quieterplease@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> " We could save more oil by banning school kid deliveries than by banning
> burn-out pads...."
>
> I'm not talking about saving oil when i rail against burnouts, i'm
> talking about the obscene ,blatant pollution and disrespect for the
> environment that burnouts epitomise. Of course there is also the noise .
>
> Shall we just turn a blind eye to a pastime that belches out toxic smoke
> and squanders tyres because someone else is also polluting ? In that case
> lets all just give up because there will always be a bigger polluter than
> you or I and if they're not going to stop then why should we ?
>
> Should ChCh City Council - and by extension- Ratepayers, be in the
> business of supporting a practise thats very intent is to pollute ?
> We're not allowed to burn tyres for a very good reason... slowly this foul
> practise (of burnouts) has morphed into a "sport" but only, I suspect,
> because most people have no idea what a burnout looks like... lets hold
> Burnout Comps in Cathedral Square or in Mall carparks, let people make
> informed choices about whether we should be building Burnout Pads.
>
> W Shaw
> Templeton
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