Saturday Night Street Racing

[Exo]

Ok so on the following roads:

Westinghouse Blvd.
S. Tryon
Carowinds Blvd.

After about 11:30am, and until sometimes 3:00am or even later the only sound that can be heard are these souped up rice burners blarring by and causing quite a disturbance for some of us people who have to be in bed by 11pm or so because some people actually have to work on the weekends.

Is nothing going to be done about this? Talk about annoying. Take your sorry peice of metal to Mooresville drag strip for god's sake.

I think police should start cracking down on these delinquents.

Thoughts? Comments? Discuss.

[brian]

If we want to race we will race

[Jon]

If Only Charlotte have a drag strip it would make it so much easier.

[will]

I lived in Charlotte right off of tryon for 2 years, and you know that if not for the races, many of us who went would have found some other way to get into trouble, that wouldn't just be reckless, but cause a hell of a lot more damage for the city. besides, you missed the more prominent roads that we raced on.

[Greg]

There's a Drag Strip close to the speed way.

[bigwillylandisya hoocom]

are there racing teams

[Ja-Ja]

Jon wrote:

If Only Charlotte have a drag strip it would make it so much easier.

Yeah i totally agree, we dont have a drag track in charlotte so we'll take to the streets its not hard atall just give us some land and two lanes of pavement.rather theres a track or not we will race we will race.

[Daron]

First, you probably drive a Ford Tarus. Get over it. We work, most of us, just like you. Just because we can work a 10 hour day off of 3 hours of sleep doesn't mean you have to get all huffy-puffy. If the police crack down on us, then we will move somewhere else. My "rice burner" will run you off the road any day. It's our life, don't disrespect. It's what we do, deal with it.

[Daron]

I'm from Charlotte. Don't know why it says Arkansas.

[None of your business]

If you all had an education you could make big bucks racing. But of course drug addicts and idiots like you can only break laws. I see you in the welfare line or morgue in time. What a drain on the community you are. I guess your parents are proud. But then they are losers too I guess. Not much disipline in your family. Too bad we dont have a draft. Make a man out of you. All I see here is a bunch of delinquints.
Good luck in the homeless shelters. And you are not like most. You are the exception. Your parents must be criminals or inbreeds. Life will catch up to you and I will be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Dustin]

Well You Can Laugh all the way to the bank But you will be suprised how much Money Is involved in street racing. You probably Flip burgers and ride a moped to work, and your just complaining b/c your moped wont keep up with our "Rice Burners" Get a Life and stop whining about how Pissed you get when you get woke up at 11pm My Nights not even began at 11pm

[Michael In Fort Mill]

for one racing is my passion its what we racers thrive on...its not a crime maybe you people should think instead of sittin on your asses and bashing us st racers should bash Charlotte and make them lazy bastards give us a strip to race on but until then we will race...Racers If you have aol then aim me my sn is whosurdaddy0120

[Michael In Fort Mill]

Exo wrote:

Ok so on the following roads:
Westinghouse Blvd.
S. Tryon
Carowinds Blvd.
After about 11:30am, and until sometimes 3:00am or even later the only sound that can be heard are these souped up rice burners blarring by and causing quite a disturbance for some of us people who have to be in bed by 11pm or so because some people actually have to work on the weekends.
Is nothing going to be done about this? Talk about annoying. Take your sorry peice of metal to Mooresville drag strip for god's sake.
I think police should start cracking down on these delinquents.
Thoughts? Comments? Discuss.

HOW ABOUT U GIVE US A DAMN ROAD AND A SET TIME WE CAN BE ON THAT ROAD MAYBE A WAREHOUSE ON WESTINGHOUSE BLVD OR SOMETHING I MEAN GIVE US SOMETHING DAMN IF YOU DONT THEN YOU ARE JUST GOIN TO HAVE TO KEEP TRYING TO CATCH US

[Michael In Fort Mill]

None of your business wrote:

If you all had an education you could make big bucks racing. But of course drug addicts and idiots like you can only break laws. I see you in the welfare line or morgue in time. What a drain on the community you are. I guess your parents are proud. But then they are losers too I guess. Not much disipline in your family. Too bad we dont have a draft. Make a man out of you. All I see here is a bunch of delinquints.
Good luck in the homeless shelters. And you are not like most. You are the exception. Your parents must be criminals or inbreeds. Life will catch up to you and I will be laughing all the way to the bank.

GO F&*K YOURSELF

[Matt]

Actually, it is a crime. Genius.

[The military races too]

Hey im in the military and guess what the majority of the military people street race, your surrounded by street racers mainly because we are all mainly ages 18-25. get over it even if there was a draft we'd come back and race again. get it aight peace out

None of your business wrote:

If you all had an education you could make big bucks racing. But of course drug addicts and idiots like you can only break laws. I see you in the welfare line or morgue in time. What a drain on the community you are. I guess your parents are proud. But then they are losers too I guess. Not much disipline in your family. Too bad we dont have a draft. Make a man out of you. All I see here is a bunch of delinquints.
Good luck in the homeless shelters. And you are not like most. You are the exception. Your parents must be criminals or inbreeds. Life will catch up to you and I will be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Vova]

I was at the race myself yesterday, for the first time. And what happened, was the most fun i ever had in my life, maybe not, but it was pretty awesome. There was nothing going on against the law. Just because a bunch of cars are gathered along the street, where there's noone working in the midnight, away from any houses, doesn't mean they're some delinquits. They got off work, and choose only one efing night in a week to relax and have some fun. How the hell anyone can complain about the noise if there weren't any houses around. Anyways, we are paying taxes so our roads stay nice, so why in the efing world can't a bunch of people who like to race, choose a road, where nothing is going on, no people working or anything, and race there?? It's not like we blocked some main part of road and were making traffic. This is efing retarded that people call racers delinquits, because i bet most, even maybe all of them have a job or some kind of monetary income and to relax from all the work they race, to get some adrenalin rush through their body. You probably don't know how it is to be a racer if you're calling us Delinquits and talking s&!t about our parents, because they didn't raise us well. F&!k you then, i love my parents alot, and i have a life, don't efing call me or my parents anything you F&!k.

[b18coupe]

we cant even hang out in a parken lot without getting ran off so why the f*ck shouldnt we just go out and find an area to race like westinghouse...twin lakes........ i mean we try to hang out at regal and just chill and they kick us out so what the f*ck do u expect us to do just go home..well f*ck that, we'll find our own places to go and they can keep tryin to run us off but we will be back no matter what

[Cobra]

Even thou I don't live in Charlotte, I live in Raleigh I still go down there to race. There are few tracks here in North Carolina (I think there is one in Morristown and thats it). It doesn't matter where you go, so we use the streets. There is a simple solution to this problem and solution is to simply build us some race tracks and some drag strips.

[Rich in KY]

Here's an interesting link that gets you to a story on street racing.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0810/p01s03-uss...

As noted in the article, in San Diego a possible punishment for drag racing is impounding your car and selling it, using the funds to enforce anti- racing laws. Also, it is a crime to watch street racing in the San Diego area. This year two California racers were convicted of manslaughter after they killed a pedestrian not involved with the race in any way. In San Diego they do have a drag race "track" set up by the police where drivers can race for $5 or $10 a night. Cars are teched to make sure they are safe and the racing is organized. The city cut the fatalities due to racing to virtually nothing. Think it's a good solution? If so, what can be done to get something like it going in the Charlotte area?