boy racer ban

tandraig

yes, I am sympathetic but i am a her not a his!
can remember when my DD got her driving licence she borrowed OHs car nearly every evening to 'go for a drive' lol one night she did a hundred and fifty miles in it! not per hour i hope! for gods sake - cut these people some slack! in earlier post i suggested they use the focus car park at the other end of town. i beilive focus rents this off the council as they built a little retail park and only focus is there - the other units are empty! i am sure some enterprising person would take burger van there if it was opened after 8 to the boy/girl racers (dont know why they called racers - mostly see them going slower than grandad!
i still think the police cant dictate who drives through town - but the south roundabout has a notice saying no u turns after 7pm and i dont see that in highway code! everyone ignores it anyway!

tandraig

keep forgetting to say this - but there are at least five roads into town. according to press reports there is a police unit at each point. what a massive waste of resources!!! that really annoys me as according to press they are there from about 7pm to 2am.
at one time in the street i live in there were three drug dealers. one got raided once - the noise from one was undescribable - and he had custody of his little daughter! were the police interested? nope - i had the devils own job as chair of neighbourhood watch to get them to do anything. in fact one cop laughed at me - told me they knew about him - and he was harmless!! selling herion and his 5 or 6 six year old on premises!! so in the grand scheme of things - i think some people congregating to chat and show off their cars - is nothing. try living in my street and you can then complain! but nothing will be done.

Petree

Our force have a done up Scooby, it doesn't look bad actually. :eek:

My OH is a copper and they are human I promise and not on power trips just bored of the same crud everyday, people moaning about not seeing a policeman in an area with zero crime, people calling 999 to say they saw a story in the newspaper about how he's reduced crime/asb all over the neighbourhood but that someone dumped a sofa near their garage so how does he explain that (real life 999 call) or that there are 3 youths causing trouble wearing hoodies = 3 x 14 year olds wearing football team hoodies (big letters) waiting for mum of lad 4 to pick them up and take them to training doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Teens needs something to do and cars are a massive right of passage, all of us did some stupid stuff when we were younger from eating space dust and drinking coke to see if you would explode , getting off with sam/antha at the ice rink through to putting on radio 1 and singing along (badly) at the top of your lungs in your 'new' ax/xr2i/saxo/shedmobile, if they are in an old saxo spending £2k on some more plastic and metal bits then most won't be drinking or taking drugs they just spent £2k on insurance, £2k on the shedmobile, £2k on the plastic they have stuck to it and gods knows how long learning to drive the thing, let them grow up on their own time and have a good relationship with the police not being told to move on again because Mrs Evans thinks all people under 25 are drug dealing sex addicts, after all it said it in the Daily Mail.

Anyway back on topic sorry...I would be really surprised if a simple 'I'm picking the wife up from work' wouldn't allow you entry, by the wording of the first post he only tried in the focus once(?), maybe the guy on duty misheard the briefing that day and assumed no traffic allowed full stop, or it was the first week with the new rules and Mrs Evans had rung them 200 times in the last year moaning about every car that goes down the road and they wanted to shut her up, then be more lenient when she's not paying as much notice!?

If he did get turned down a few times I know you can tow the line of I have a right to access and kick up a fuss but its far easier to call the station in the day, explain the situation and then just let the guy on duty know PC Bob said it was ok.

mumslave

One of these boy racers killed a 17 year old girl on my high street last year. Another hit a school boy, that was hit so hard he flew into the car coming the other way...happened to be a police car. As a result the speeding limit on that road was dropped to 50. I would sign a ban for boy racers, its pathetic and dangerous.

jeannieblue

Tandraig, I am sorry I changed your gender......... :D

I agree with you wholeheartedly, some people forget what it is like to be young (take Goldspangles for example, well passed his sell by date) and want to get together with friends, chat and eat some fries.

I guess that all those 'traffic cop' programmes where they are chasing the scum in stolen vehicles sets a lot of (ignorant) people against the young in cars and judge them the same way.

jeannieblue

mumslave wrote: »

One of these boy racers killed a 17 year old girl on my high street last year. Another hit a school boy, that was hit so hard he flew into the car coming the other way...happened to be a police car. As a result the speeding limit on that road was dropped to 50. I would sign a ban for boy racers, its pathetic and dangerous.

It is not just the boys (or girls) that speed and race. You get stupid people in all age groups.

These kids that the OP is talking about are actually just congregating in a car park, having a burger and chatting. The cars aren't moving..

mumslave

I didnt say it was only boys or girls that race, just that the ones that happened to kill two people near me in the last year were cetainly young and well known for racing about the town, I live on the high street, in a very small, close knit town , most of which turned out to the funerals. Every friday/saturday night is an absolute nightmare, for the showing off that is done up and down the highstreet, I would quite happily see the lot banned from being able to race up and down the street, endangering not just others but themselves.

jeannieblue

mumslave wrote: »

I didnt say it was only boys or girls that race, just that the ones that happened to kill two people near me in the last year were cetainly young and well known for racing about the town, I live on the high street, in a very small, close knit town , most of which turned out to the funerals. Every friday/saturday night is an absolute nightmare, for the showing off that is done up and down the highstreet, I would quite happily see the lot banned from being able to race up and down the street, endangering not others but themselves.

Yes, agree, the racing should be stopped by the police. But the OP was talking about groups meeting in a car park who were not racing. It is very difficult to not tar them all with the same brush.

Have you thought about contacting your local authority/police etc? Surely if enough of you got together they could introduce some nice big speed humps or at least have more police to catch the s*ds. If two youngsters have been killed they really should get their act together. No excuse.

tandraig

mumslave - I do see your point - but my post isnt about people speeding - its about them meeting up in car parks to chat! am so sorry about the lives lost though and understand where you are coming from.
did say earlier that all these people do is congregate and chat and eat burgers etc in the 24 hour car park.
oh and our high street - shopping is hazardous to the eardrums on saturdays - with the mobile discos (cars) with stereos turned up. this does annoy me - i dont always like the music! but the residents and cops dont seem to mind this. wonder why?

mumslave

Perhaps the police feel it would just be better not to take the risk that a group of young drivers in cars having a burger, dont decide to get a bit out of hand later, when it could be too late for them or someone else. Who knows. Right outside my door is a large carpark where most of the racers round here meet to have a smoke, chat etc before the fun begins. Where do you draw the line?

Along the high street around the middle area (the very busiest part) they have speed humps, about three or four, which will see a racer go over fairly slow, before flooring it after the last one, up the rest of the high street. The high street leads onto the coast road, where the little boy was killed, there is no speed bumps on that one, but it is sometimes monitored by the police. Perhaps these ones do give others that mean no harm a bad name, but how can the police know whom is going to become a danger on the road and whom isnt. Tough call.