Boy Racers
From:
Tim Kerr
Date:
May 13 10:47 UTC
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Nice to hear from you Ike,
I think there may be a bit of a vigilante feeling beginning. I'd say it is
fairly provoked. Although loud exhausts seem to be the bane of the problem,
in truth it probably isn't.
A loud car screams past pretty quickly - so by the time someone is affected
the thing has passed by.
Nah, I suspect it it the twits who throw bottles out car windows, unrinate
on our lawns, do burnouts in the driveway and out on the road, who park
outside a resident's house at 0400 Hrs (quite innocently) but fail to switch
the lumpy idle motor off, or those who play deep resonnant base on their car
stereos and set our teeth knocking when they are next to us or behind us
along Colombo St, the ones who along with the urinating and thrown bottles,
deposit all their fast food crap in the gutters and on our properties - then
Fuck me (if you pardon the expression on this forum) if some bastard doesn't
deface the front fence. No that guy probably doesn't have the IQ to get a
license - let alone own a car - but boy-racers will cop a bit of the blame
because of all the other issues I have just listed.
As I used to live in Denman St I know what I am talking about.
But you know, I admire many of the cars and I think many so-called boy
racers are pretty good drivers too.
But once you see a bunch of twits doing burnouts - oh, and deliberately
setting alight abandonded cars outside our homes then, sorry buddy ALL boy
racers catch the crap.
Just like all motor cyclists used to cop it when I was young.
Cheers,
Tim Kerr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ike Andoit" <>
To: "Canterbury Public Issues Forum"
<>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Canterbury Issues] Boy Racers
>I was catching up on the new on this subject the other day and i was
>surprised to hear about a man who rammed a carload of Boy racers with his
>vehicle and then proceeded to throw something through another vehicles
>window, resulting in injury. There are also reported incidents where people
>are placing nails and screws on the roads to puncture the tires of "Boy
>Racers" cars, last time i checked they weren't the only ones using the
>roads and this could have serious consequences to anyone who came across
>such a trap.
> Does this new vigilante attitude not scare anyone else?
> I myself am 26, Married and we own our own home. I consider My wife and
> myself to be polite responsible adults and yet since our car matches the
> description of a "Boy Racer" car we are targeted by the police when not
> doing anything wrong at all. It is people like us who are likely to be
> affected by public vigilante groups as emotions get high and things get
> out of control.
> There are plenty of young people interested in cars who are responsible
> and are getting blamed for the actions of a few, some of us are willing to
> help with the situation but are often met with attitudes of disbelief and
> mistrust.
> I think that if we treat the general problem with maturity and deal with
> the idiots that are not willing to be responsible then the problem can be
> sorted out with little or no conflict, However in order to do this we need
> to all act maturely and responsibly in order to reach a solution, starting
> with listening to each side and not getting on high horses and jumping the
> gun.
> Anyway lets get on with being proactive and do something about the issues
> rather than sitting at our computers battling it out with quotes,
> misconstrued facts and insults.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ike
>
>
> Nathan Dale
> Rolleston, Christchurch
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