Rwd Rexy!?

[Mr Man]

WRX's are everywhere in NZ, as well as R32 skylines, mostly 4 door ones...

[turb06]

See a hell of a lot more RS Liberty's or Legacy's as they call them over there, most are around 5k too, pay double to triple that here for them.

Dazza.

[cobrav8]

Yep - lots of WRXs, Legacys, RXs (two wheel drive standard - though I havnt seen a 2wd wagon before), also lots of Evo Lancers, GSR Lancers (2WD), all sorts of money being splashed about on some very fast cars for some young guys. They are cheap here -but I would say the $5000 ones are older non turbo cars mainly. For a decent car still around 15 would be my guess.

To be honest - I have followed a great huge bunch of 'boy racers' to see what they got up to - and most were pretty well behaved, lots of noise, but not much speeding or dangerous stuff. The biggest wheelie I saw anyone doing was from a Falcon ute!

I ended up down at the riverbank carpark - and there would have been 200 or so cars, modded, standard, all sorts of stuff, with everyone just milling about - including a couple of cop cars keeping an eye on everything. I honestly didnt realise the scene was so big - and it is like it most Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays like that. All this is in Wellington, which is not an enormous city by any means

[plonky]

my apologies

I forgot that NZ has a Canterbury and it is full of Subaru wankers as well

(apologies to those that drive Subaru's and are not retards like those depicted in that video)

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What about those who live in Bankstown and arn't cockheads like you depicted

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Now Cro....you don't honestly think I would be referring to you?

You are definitely NOT a Subaru wa*ker....just a good bloke that happens to live in an area where there is an increased number of oxygen thieves.

[plonky]

It has always been easy to find an out of the way area (not an industrial area) to experiment with the car.

An organised street drag race come to mind.

A track day.

A friends paddock.

A bit safer and more sensible than a public road.

I'm glad he smashed up his car!

[turb06]

Plonk I have a fantasy situation for you, just to get your opinion on what you would do as a police officer.

Say you come across a few guys doing some skids and filming it on an out of the way road, you havnt been sent there from a complaint just happened to fluke your way across it. Upon pulling up and asking the poeple what they were doing and why, they replied to you with something sensible to at least try to explain there actions, like. "Well we wanted to film some skids so we came out here so we didnt cause any annoyance or danger to pedestrians or other motorists."

What would your reaction be, if of course you can answer such a scenario on a public forum.

Dazza.

[XRSICKT]

Plonk I have a fantasy situation for you, just to get your opinion on what you would do as a police officer.

Say you come across a few guys doing some skids and filming it on an out of the way road, you havnt been sent there from a complaint just happened to fluke your way across it.  Upon pulling up and asking the poeple what they were doing and why, they replied to you with something sensible to at least try to explain there actions, like.  "Well we wanted to film some skids so we came out here so we didnt cause any annoyance or danger to pedestrians or other motorists." 

What would your reaction be, if of course you can answer such a scenario on a public forum.

Dazza.

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I reckon an officer in such a situation would have to book the driver because if not, it would be promoting this behaviour and next time it may not be in such a safe area

[turb06]

True, but I should have stated I doubt any police officers would let the act go unnoticed, but would it be as severe a penalty than if you happned to see the skid go through Mrs Macks fence while her grandkids were playing out front narrowly missing them all.

Dazza.

[Redhawk]

I think if the boys passed the 'attitude test' a reasonable officer would book them with something minor and point out to them that there are proper places to conduct this sort of 'fun'.

[ZAP]

I would say that Plonky would look at the following:

WRX riced up + young guys with beanies = Cavity search, impound of car and hopefully jail time

I think that the fact they were videoing burnouts, they would have no choice but to throw the book at them, because if someone on say a motorbike came around the corner while this loose was out of control and took the biker out, it could kill them.

You need to consider ALL possibilities and discourage this type of behaviour.

There seems to be a lot of people practicing drifting on public roads, the problem with this is most cannot drive, let alone drift. We might view this video and laugh at the bad driving, but they have no regard for public safety.

I have seen many videos of street racing and it is amazing how quickly fun turns to tears or tragedy