California employs new tactics to crush illegal street racing
It seems that California has decided to take a different approach to combating illegal street racing. Not only will the police ticket you and impound your car, they are now going to Crush your car.
All that money spent on parts and tuning and styling will be folded up into a deck of playing cards as a warning to all illegal street racers.
Until the process of crushing cars reaches its full potential the deterrent they intend it to be may only result in more racers running to avoid capture. For some racers the $10,000 or so in extra parts on the car is a bit harder to replace.
For California the message is clear: leave the racing to your XBOX or on the track. If you want to race on the streets they will be seeking to crush your spirits.
Source[msnbc.com]
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Wow, way to go California. Let’s take away these kids’ cars and leave them nothing to turn to but drugs and violence. Sure less people will die on the road from street racing, but more will be killed by these youths whose dreams were destroyed and have nothing to live for.
Give these guys an outlet to express their creativity instead of destroying it. What is wrong with California law makers??
Words by Jon on July 3, 2007 at 3:07 pm | #
Something tells me pursuits will increase.. some people aren’t going to give up that easy knowing their car is going to be crushed. People that tune their cars become attached to the car, trust me, I know. It would be very difficult to watch.
Words by dynamix on August 1, 2007 at 11:30 pm | #
Wow i agree with these guys.
California is just going to get more pursuits, and more people will end up injured or dead. Street racing isn’t a great idea, but the people that take there time and money to put into there cars aren’t going to let there cars be destroyed. I know this.
Oh yeah!!
Cant forget might as well get rid of the four stroke bikes as well as the two strokes.
Words by JJ Peterson on October 9, 2007 at 1:15 am | #
Wow, Cali has seriously crossed a line that shouldn’t have been crossed. I agree 100% with the comments of the others on the page…If these tuners dont have their cars to put there time and money and heart into what do they have??? Most of these tuners dreamed of building their rides into what they are now, and for Cali law makers to find it ok to take that away from them and destroy, I find to be absurd!!! I live on the east coast and I race, but you don’t see Maryland law makers crushin cars!!! Take Florida for example, they’re big on illegal street racing themselves, but they’re cars aren’t being crushed.
Cali needs to re-think this whole car crushing issue.
Words by Rich on October 10, 2007 at 8:02 pm | #
yes i agree with all of you i,m a street racer i have a 1998 mitsubishi eclipse its my baby and i have put alot of money in to my car and if any cop try’s to crush my car theirs going to be one less cop in this world and a lot of my frinds fill the same it’s just gonig ot cause more problems and ps cop go to hell you f**kin a$$ holes if you want i can help yaw with that lol and im not playing
Words by nitrokid on November 14, 2007 at 8:49 am | #
Maybe these street racers should do something productive with their time. Instead of wasting $10,000 on mAd tyTe JDM yo parts, they should put $10,000 towards an education. This would eliminated the waste of money on a Honda (notice the cars in the picture…. of course, who else?) and would enable them to be able to spell. I would feel uncomfortable watching a race where the driver is unable to spell “friends,” “feel” and instead of saying “y’all” at least, he would say “yaw.” If it is one’s dream to build a riced-out Honda, then he or she has his or her priorities messed up. Street racing is illegal and dangerous, 1 in 20 people involved in street racing are injured. Cops are not assholes. People like you should be locked up or deported. Stop wasting your money on japcrap and get an education. Every time I see a civic pull up next to me, unnecessary wing on the back (note FWD), revving his little 4-banger as the exhaust tone sounds like a fart in a can of Folgers, I laugh at the “str33t raycer 4 lyfe, yo. Type R!” Race track, not street.
Words by Alex on November 20, 2007 at 7:47 pm | #
This guy “alex” is an idiot. Not every car you see on the street is a “ricer”. I have a 95 Honda Civic that will walk away from ANY and I do mean ANY c5 vette, mustang gt or cobra, trans am, camaro… The list goes on… But the state of California has NO RIGHT to crush someones car. If you street race then thats your thing, but many more lives will be lost by police pursuits than actuall racing. There is no way in hell that the poeple who happen to have a decently modded car are going to stop for police if they know that there car is going to be crushed. Congradulations California law makers YOU’RE IDIOTS!!
Words by Trent on December 5, 2007 at 5:21 am | #
Well, the state of florida just passed a law allowing enforcement to crush the vehicles of street racers. I ride through the streets in orlando and see kids racing the cars their parents bought them for turning 16 years old. These young kids don’t have any fear for consiquences, thus leading to stupid reactions in their vehicle that kill there peers. I have seen a kid get ran over, first hand! The immaturity on the streets is what keeps me at the local drag strip on saturday nights instead of the street races. I’m not trying to get my ride crushed.
Words by Daddy on December 6, 2007 at 1:30 pm | #
i agree if u tryed to crush my car good luck catching me… stupit cops..
Words by zack on December 11, 2007 at 12:17 am | #
I’ve a relative that was killed when two racers ran a red light at 10pm and slammed into her minivan as she was going home from work. I do not condone street racing, it is illegal for a reason. Also the states do have a legal right to search and seizure. Which means they can take your car, and once they have it they can do what ever they want to it.
With that said, I think that police sponsored races, where, much like parades roads are cordoned off to allow the tuners to show their stuff is a much better approach to the situation.
Words by Big Dave on December 19, 2007 at 1:15 pm | #
Hmmmm….. The good thing is those cars in the stack are just ricers. I really dont think its right to crush their cars because as an import enthusiast and a customizing business owner myself If i were to have my car crushed personally I wouldn’t let that grudge go. I wouldn’t go crazy and hurt people but Id make sure Id get even with the city up until it evens up with the value of what my car was worth. I’m a man who respects everything (the value of money, friends, family, work, especially the law) but to me my car is way more then just a bunch of iron and plastic. The money I have put into my car is a little out there but the time and personalized work to make my car stand out is way more higher then what people can imagine. I must have spent a few hundred hrs on my car building custom parts, painting it and a whole lots more. Id much rather have my car sold than crushed because et least my work is still there, but others can enjoy it. Its better than nothing at all. Plus even if they did crush it Id just go out and buy something twice as fast.
Crushing peoples cars isn’t right, nobody should let that happen and do nothing about it. Eye for an eye. Finding an empty cop car isn’t hard at all. But other then that, California is one of the strictest states but is also one of the states with the most shoved up their @sses. What they should have done and I’m sure they probably do this but what do I know. Instead of crushing the cars, they should sell them and use the money to get more cop cars or enforce the boarder or do something that will do more then just piss off somebody who just lost their car. If you have a 98 ricer its maybe in best intension’s to be crushed but if its something nice like a 06 miata special edition or a 2000 supra it can be sold for some good loot.
Words by John on December 19, 2007 at 8:55 pm | #
Agreed on the selling v. crushing issue. If it something worth selling, sell it. However, with California spending, it would take about $6 million to sponsor a single race. I am not saying any Japanese car is slow, but when some “AZNGANGSTA” pulls up next to me in his chicken-wire-adorned, $50 ebay “R-SPEC” muffler, $50 BOMZ racing aluminum spoiler, his knock-off super-heavy “racing rimZ” and more counter-productive exterior body pieces than your average riced-out civic, I laugh at him before I even think of giving him a taste of my Bavarian engineering. It is no doubt that the extra 16bhp and 14ftlbs from his “AEM” sticker helped him pull away from me as I hear the whine from his ebay-purchased “electric turbo”
Words by Alex on December 26, 2007 at 7:13 pm | #
So as long as no one races the cars they can still be modded to they’re full potential without being crushed correct?
Words by Chad on January 8, 2008 at 12:16 pm | #
within legal parameters. However, If would see you floating by on I-15 in any variant of a honda civic or the like, I would gladly pay for it to be crushed. Watch yourself.
Words by Alex on January 9, 2008 at 5:12 pm | #
what the hell is wrong with you poeple? street racing is the stupidist thing i have ever heard of. you dont know what the hell your talking about until you loose someone from it, you should all wake up and realize that your saying oh lord there gonna turn to drugs. truth is there probably already on them dumbasses.
Words by brittany joesoph on January 12, 2008 at 1:28 pm | #
What a foolish thing to do !
They could have removed the front and rear glass,
the tires and wheels to sell at auction and proceeds
to fund projects.
I understand the engines were / are stolen,
scrap them but to waste the entire car in a crusher
is just plain stupid .
Jimbo
Words by m james on January 22, 2008 at 7:40 pm | #
re: NitroKid..
you need to study more and learn english instead of racing !
You also imply you will harm law enforcement,
‘one less cop on the street’.
very stupid person you are.
nitrokid spouted…. (crap)
yes i agree with all of you i,m a street racer i have a 1998 mitsubishi eclipse its my baby and i have put alot of money in to my car and if any cop try’s to crush my car theirs going to be one less cop in this world and a lot of my frinds fill the same it’s just gonig ot cause more problems and ps cop go to hell you f**kin a$$ holes if you want i can help yaw with that lol and im not playing
Words by nitrokid on November 14, 2007 at 8:49 am | #
Words by m james on January 22, 2008 at 7:45 pm | #
Just to clarify this what you people call street racing isn’t organized street racing. I go to street races every Saturday night out in the middle of no where, with out any innocent bystander’s insight. If you street race make sure its away from people that don’t want any part of it such as those innocent bystander’s. So the next time you say street racers make sure you realize that there are some of us that care about other people and keep it away from all the high traffic areas.
Words by Eddie on January 22, 2008 at 7:58 pm | #
i simply dont think it is right them to make a law to crush a vehicle for racing…and dont get me wrong im not supporting illegal street racing..i have a 2008 mitsubishi evo, and a 1992 eagle talon and myself i go to a track and race if i want….i would especially cause hell for my state if a police went up pulled me over gave me ticket and crushed my car….and reading from lot of individuals comments if a lot of you feel that all of us how would you say “ricer” races deserve this…well then i believe, all these middle aged men with their 1968, 1967, et. etc etc..the .list goes on, on, those vehicles should be crushed as well. They are basically doing what these kids are doing..they say they are fixing up old classic cars…but basically the word ” fixing” for a lack of better works is modifying…And im sure everybody should know, by any state law as far as im aware any modification to any car is illegal…bcuz face it the cars they “fix” will have more hp, more torque, and more power, from what it once had…so those out there towards the negative comments, that think this is acceptable…just think you were just crusing down the road in your crovette stingray, your chevelle, or camaro. and a cop pulled you over gave you a ticket, and took your car and crushed…just for driving….bcuz the statement that california is stating is that if your drive your “fixed up, ricered out car we will crush with no hesitation.”
Words by robert on January 22, 2008 at 8:01 pm | #
Seems like the youth feel it is ok for drag racers to endanger others because they feel like having fun.
On New Years Eve a couple years ago; a 16 year old youth was drag racing down our street at 4am. He totalled his car and was lucky not to be killed. He hit 6 other parked cars. There were 6 cars totalled of 7.
This past summer 4 joy riding youths hit 3 parked cars…in broad daylight.
They got out of the car and started running. There was alot of blood streaking down the sides of the car….so some must have been seriously hurt.
No…drag racing…down city streets…is dangerous…and should be stopped at any cost.
Words by Chgo resident on January 22, 2008 at 8:08 pm | #
i have a honda civic that is not a ricer but i feel that the crush law might be necessary. i think that if the race tracks or local government brought back some of the free test and tune nights at the race tracks that you would see a decrease in the amount of street racing.
Words by robert on January 24, 2008 at 8:33 pm | #
screw that,if i knew that my car would be crushed for being modded i def would not stop for the 5-0’s! im 17 and ive owned a variety of different cars…jap and otherwise.we put our heart and soul into these things and to crush them would provoke alot of bs grudges which i am 100% positive would cause more problems than racing itself.i know more than a couple people who have lost their lives due to street racing…that doesnt mean i have to get on the pity trip and talk about how bad tuned cars and street racing are?i dont even street race with the exception of stop light to stop lights, but drifting is starting to draw as much attention in florida as racing! i would be pissed if they took my car because of someones sob story!
Words by eddiesixem on January 27, 2008 at 2:25 pm | #
they may be able to crush car but they will never crush the dream for tuners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F#%$ing pigs
Words by Daniel on February 11, 2008 at 10:17 am | #
they would never get my car they can try they wont get my car
Words by william on March 7, 2008 at 2:49 pm | #
Man, they think by making stupid laws they are going to stop people from racing dam they are so Wrong. That just makes people go and do it! And who ever say its the right thing to do, u can go F#$! Your slef!
Words by JJ on March 12, 2008 at 7:18 pm | #
oK this laww is s**t dawg
What the heck is wrong with ya’ll cccccccccccops, im have a 1998 orange toyota supra turbo (fast & furious replica) with nitrous and all the shit on it, makes 1300 hp. I have a 1995 red rx7 also with nitrous, and a 1999 green mitsubishi eclipse thats pimped. If cops komee ima blow the nitrous in there engines and thell screw thereselfs wid there law shit.
ima go to there stations and crush THEre cars does stubid retards,, street racing is fun itz NOT goinna stoop and ima continue dion it all the time
ill do it right in front of polie and run screw the law this is sum fun shit werl taklkinn’ ’bout, yawl. ima do whatever they did in fast and furious movies
Words by Cyrus on March 15, 2008 at 3:06 pm | #
what the hell? a biter on my name? hahaha….get your own name kid…and quit giving mine a bad name….
Words by the real eddiesixem on March 15, 2008 at 5:34 pm | #
This is pointless…This will cause more pursuits…
Honda fan-boys need to get it through their heads though… Keep it on the track.
Words by Audi Driver on March 27, 2008 at 1:33 pm | #
WELL HOW I C THIS IS THAT IT IS WACK ,THEY MAY CRUSH A BIT OF THESE RICERS BUT TO CRUSH ALL THE RACERS CARS IMPOSSIBLE……SO WHAT I GOT TO SAY IS KEEP DOING WHAT U DOIN N IF U C A COP REV THE SHIT OUT OF IT TO LET THEM NO WAS UP…..
Words by DSM FO EVA on March 29, 2008 at 1:52 am | #
well i agree with lots of people Call has gone way to far i mean i spent tons of money on my car and my dream is to have one the best racing cars out there on the street one day and if they take away my car i wouldent be veary happy and it would prob lead me to do more stupeder things than street racing i mean thats my dream and if u crush that u take away my life some people dream of having a asome car that was my dream sience i was little and iam still going for it but it wont stop us street racing it will get worse because il still do it its just proving how everyone hates us and its stuiped we pay taxes to for high ways and streets so we should have the right to race on them were not hurting anyone we block off rodes to be safe and usually it is because for me safty is the nummber one priority iam in charged for the races and the safty of them so belive me its preety safe yea crashes happend but not all the time as people say they do so Call u need to thaink through what u are doing instead of acting !!!!!!!!!!
Words by Derek on March 31, 2008 at 1:42 pm | #
the laws suck in cali. i used to get pulled over for just driving a civic that looked modified.then i would get tickets up the ass for any mods.so weather you race on the track or street cali cops will harass you just for the look.it is like racial profile or stereo type for your clothes.personally i say tack it to the track yeah its more fun on the streets just for the rush.but with all the money and time spent for the true racers not the pepboy special bolt on people to me the risk is to high to lose my car.street racing has been around forever and will never stop.nowadays whe have to many people among us so that is where some accidents happen and people who cant control their cars.so to those who race on the streets watch yourself and maybe just pay your 20$ and keep it on the track and race anotherday
Words by mugen 2000 on April 4, 2008 at 12:01 am | #
Can they please leave the owner in the vehicle during the crushing process? If not, they’re just going to go buy/build another one and continue being a public menace. Okay maybe not actually crush them, just putting them behind bars for a few years would be fine.
Words by juve on April 12, 2008 at 2:01 pm | #
the laws have always been fucked in california. now they are going to dismember personal property. if you want fast cars, lazy cops and leaniant laws come to south dakota. this shit is cake
Words by SDcivicRiot on May 13, 2008 at 10:51 am | #
all these people are saying “once you lose someone from racing you’ll regret it” no i wont. peple are to f***ing stupid to realize everyone dies sometime. crushing these cars is just another step where america becomes closer to communism. if my car got crushed i do jus as someone else said, theres always an empty cop car somewere. but im in illinois, and i dont htink thats gonna happen anytime soon that i need to worry about.
on the other hand, im glad its mostly ricers getting messed up. if it was a mustang or camaro or trans am, then thats when this is getting really out of hand.
also, cali def. will have more deaths from these pursuits than from actual street racing. racers try to do it places where not to many people are. but if their being chased throughout cities, there bound to get in an accident and kill more people that way.
good luck
Words by drake on May 16, 2008 at 10:54 am | #
Well, the problem is that you do not know that your car will be crushed until you get pulled over. Now a cop may ask you to pull over just for a minor violation or speeding or no stop on a right hand turn on a red light and such. Now, are you just going to run as soona s a cop flashes his lights? That would be stupid.
But then, they can always pull you over for something simple and then possibly open the hood and find some illegal racing stuff in the car (like nitrous kits and such).
So I don’t think running is a practical option. Because until you get pulled over, you don’t know if your car is gonna be crushed.
Even for speeding, the cops dont’ always open up the hood or trunk and look for racing stuff.
I’ve been pulled over several times for speeding, they never looked in my hood or trunk.
I’m in california. But I agree california day by day is becoming a pussy state. No one has balls here to stand up to the state. They might as well take of our testasterone and cut of all our balls and live like Eunuchs. What’s the point of a living a life, without having some fun.
We call say it’s a free country, but if you go to the other parts of the world, the law isn’t this nuts! There is a lot more freedom there. But lesser money. The only thing here is there’s more luxury, money and a better environment.
Words by Tony on May 30, 2008 at 12:55 pm | #
thats jacked up i think california shuld make tracks for us to go race at that are oppen 24-7 cuz seriously if they pull this shit then i know there are going to be pple out there that would proudly rebel how i wouldent know, but it would happen.
I wonder whats cheaper crushing a bunch of cars or making a track and saving lifes ? HMmm…???
that being sad cuz if they crushed my ride id just go make another and it be a never ending story.
Words by Brian on June 7, 2008 at 8:33 pm | #
There was an RX-7 on top…. So sad… The rest below that are crap. People have to understand the difference between a ricer and a car enthusiast. There are dumbass kids who buy a civic and run red lights. I own a 1986 RX-7 series four, I enjoy tunning and upgrading my car just as much as a Mustang, or Corvette enthusiast enjoys doing the same to their car. I keep my racing to the track though and thats where racing should be done. California should make it easier for people to get on tracks and creating an outlet for kids rather than making it hard. Personally I’ve been three times by drunk drivers and been in pretty bad wrecks, but you don’t see laws that crush a drunken drivers car…
I guess you could be like every other person and just get an S.U.V. that will obliterate everything you hit and sucks half the earths resources dry.
Words by Scot on June 16, 2008 at 9:26 pm | #
this is bull sh@#….i agree with the rest of yall…..not only is tuning and moddin out your car a hobby….for some its a way of life…you bring your ideas and creativity and cram it onto a four wheel canvas….its art….as part of the street scene i think this is a bunch of horse shit….i seen the impound lot crushn that blue civic hatch….it wasnt ma car but hurt me…lol…the driver was ther along with it bein televised on the local news station….cali and ther laws…im good here in the south west….
Words by concepts anthony on June 25, 2008 at 4:30 am | #
I THINK THAT THEY NEED TO LEAVE THEM CARS ALONE IT IS A
WAY OF LIFE FOR SOME PEOPLE.MY BEST FRIEND CAR WAS
CRUSHED.AS HE SAID THAT CAR WAS THE LAST THING HE
HAD LIFT.
THE CAN CRUSH OUR CARS BUT, THEY CAN’T CRUSH OUR
DREAMS!
Words by letty on June 29, 2008 at 4:48 pm | #
Isn’t that an Acura Integra on top?
dumping money into a civic or a mustang is a waste of money. Put your money somewhere better spent… on a BMW.
Words by BMW>ALL on June 30, 2008 at 3:44 am | #