There’s a house of total fucking fucknuts in my street, about 10 doors down. They’re always hanging outside the house, a group of about a dozen teenagers and young men, looking threateningly at anyone who passes. All day long today they’ve been screaming up and down the street in junked out cars, doing 360s and donuts, revving the shit out of them and doing handbrake turns. There’s an open area in front of my house, and just now one of these assholes lost control doing a 360 on it, and smashed into a lamp post, blowing his tires. For all their histrionics, they don’t actually appear to be very good drivers: these twatheads don’t seem to be able to cross the street without spinning the wheels, and nor can they move more than 10 yards without getting the revs up to around 6,500.
There are now three cars parked outside my house, all of them sprayed red, with missing side-windows and the registration plates and headlights removed. I strongly suspect that a) they’re stolen cars, and b) they’re about to have a road race. In the past I have called the cops, but nothing ever happens. Furthermore, I don’t want to draw attention to myself, as I don’t want to get a brick through the window.
It’s the kind of street where little kids play on their bikes or kick a football around. They are going to kill someone one of these days.
It’s very frustrating watching this, and being incapable of stopping it.
I called the police anyway, for what good it will do. They said they’d send a patrol car. As luck always seems to have it, the fucknuts stopped their tire-screaming antics just as I replaced the receiver.
I just hope nobody in the police station knows anyone in that house, because I really don’t want to get harrassed or vandalized.
A banger rally? Is that the same as a destruction derby?
Can you get them on video? I hear that cameras have become relatively cheap these days. The police could have a record. If the police don’t care, maybe you can sell it to Max-X, or another crazy video show. If you could get “one of th[o]se assholes los[ing] control doing a 360 on it, and smash[ing] into a lamp post,” that’s got to be worth a good laugh for some of us, and some money for you.
Other than that, I don’t suppose you have some neighborhood commitee that could encourage the police as a group. This activity has to be bringing home values down.
I hate them also. I do rev. my car up, but it isn’t too loud. I hate those jerkoffs in Calisle here also. I wish the cops would force all the kids to take off those illegal pipes and mufflers. Too much noise and pollution.
I can’t wait until the muffler whistles make it to Calgary. Cause the really loud bratting mufflers and motorbikes and poochie boys (the ones that make your house windows rattle with their “poochie, poochie” stereos) just aren’t making my life noisy enough yet. :rolleyes:
Banger rallies are actually a great way to discourage joyriding and to encourage kids to take an interest in something that isn’t crime.
They aren’t distruction derby, but old cars that aren’t particularly roadworthy fixed up and secured for racing on a race track.
All the glass and the spare seats are taken out, and proper racing seatbelts are installed. Each car is inspected for race worthiness (running engine, correct seatbelt, all glass removed, proper safety equipment, fully working brakes etc. ) before it is allowed to race. It provides an outlet for teens who want to race but also to do it legally and safely in a fun learning environment.
