# Joyriding fucknuts
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 9, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049 "2003-08-09T17:02:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/1 "2003-08-09T17:02:57Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/2 "2003-08-09T17:14:05Z")
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> \*Originally posted by jjimm \*
> \*\*There’s a house of total fucking fucknuts in my street, about 10 doors down. \*\*
Hey **jjim** do you live 4 doors up from me? Damn! you’ve just described my neighborhood…
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/3 "2003-08-09T17:22:49Z")
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> \*Originally posted by SkyBum \*
> \*\*Hey **jjim** do you live 4 doors up from me? Damn! you’ve just described my neighborhood… \*\*
Only if you live in the Northside of Dublin!
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.
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/4 "2003-08-09T17:33:44Z")
if the plates and the windows are gone, and the cars are resprayed, there are 2 options
1. they are going to go street racing
2. they are entering the banger rallys in Santry.
I’d certainy go with 1, but it could still be 2
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/5 "2003-08-09T17:37:08Z")
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> \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \*
> \*\*2) they are entering the banger rallys in Santry. \*\*
Oooh, maybe you’re right. They do look a bit rallyish… Is that a regular thing or is there a meet this weekend?
Regardless, I don’t want them screaming up and down a road full of pedestrians and parked cars.
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/6 "2003-08-09T17:43:45Z")
it’s fairly regular, but i don’t know the dates.
they still sound like fucknuts. Perhaps we can go to the Rally’s and hold up a big sign saying “CRASH”
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### Author:  [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/7 "2003-08-09T20:44:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/8 "2003-08-09T21:56:46Z")
jjimm, have you tried contacting your local councillor?
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### Author:  [@kputt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kputt)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/9 "2003-08-10T01:56:13Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/10 "2003-08-10T03:09:31Z")
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> \*Originally posted by ruadh \*
> \*\*jjimm, have you tried contacting your local councillor? \*\*
You crack me ruadh!!! 😃
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### Author:  [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/11 "2003-08-10T03:10:34Z")
\*You crack me up!!
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/12 "2003-08-10T07:01:29Z")
Erm, that was dead serious, and I think jjimm will know which councillor I’m referring to.
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### Author:  [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/13 "2003-08-10T07:10:39Z")
Do they have the [**whistles that go wooooo-wooooo**](http://homepage.mac.com/howheels/rubpics/woowoo.wmv)?
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/14 "2003-08-10T09:36:47Z")
Well I’m fairly sure **Twisty** was right.
It’s Sunday morning. They’re tuning their engines. They woke me up.
REEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVV REEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVV.
I’m so glad that they don’t go wooooooo woooooo as well (that is hilarious, btw!).
If the situation persists I might give him a shout, **ruadh**. Or I might write a letter to one of my TDs… Bertie something or other.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/15 "2003-08-10T15:07:44Z")
A banger rally? Sounds like a sausage fest.
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### Author:  [@Thaidog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaidog)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/16 "2003-08-10T17:20:09Z")
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> \*Originally posted by jjimm \*
> \*\*It’s very frustrating watching this, and being incapable of stopping it. \*\*
I can relate.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/17 "2003-08-10T18:22:47Z")
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:
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joyriding-fucknuts/194049/18 "2003-08-11T13:34:38Z")
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.