Street Racing Blitz, who got a ticket? I did...
 

So what's up guys. Today they did a blitz I dunno how huge it was but there were easily 50 cop cars + undercovers at 403/dundas timmys. I got hit with no license plate light and I had an expired insurance card (stupid me). Luckily that was on my vdub not my civic... they would have RAPED my civic. They checked the ride height, the noise, the lights, the tints etc.

you the guy with the green golf? i was there the whole time from when the 6 cops set up behind the building and the news guys came around video taping my car with my buddies cars too saying it was for a channel 11 street racing thing on the news...lol i hope they show me on tv yelling at the guy in the cop car to stop taping my car for a street racing news story......:mad:

^^^ hahaha, they were on fire. as i was leaving there was a cop in front of my that after he turned out of the parking lot, put on his lights so i was was wondering what the fcuk he was doing. then i just drove by him slowly, and asked him if it was me, and he just waved me by. there was easily 15 cop cars that were all over the place along dundas, and almost every single car and bike was getting pulled over.

i think it's all a ploy for channel 11 news, so they can say they're actually doing something, when in reality, the majority of the people they pulled over don't even street race...

The cops are f@cked in the head. Every one there just have timmie's and hang out. there nothing wrong with that. The cops really need to get a ****ing life, and do there job right.

i think it's all a ploy for channel 11 news, so they can say they're actually doing something, when in reality, the majority of the people they pulled over don't even street race...


Can you prove it that they don't?

The cops are f@cked in the head. Every one there just have timmie's and hang out. there nothing wrong with that. The cops really need to get a ****ing life, and do there job right.

No there's nothing wrong with hanging out at a th having a coffee. However the first person got busted for no LP light and no insurance card. Then later went on how his civic would be raped. hmmmmmmm I think the police are doing there job. If your car is modded & it's not legal you should be ticketed.

The cops just think the cars meet at timmy's to arrange a street race.... so thats probably what they were waiting for and ocne they didn't get it they started dealing out minor traffic offences so the night wasn't a total waste!

the property manager has had this in the works for a while...he's wanted the cars gone for months
the police imo thought wth, let's get a camera crew to go with us so we can make it look like we're doing a lot more that just an eviction, we're gonna jump down on the gang-bangin' street racers......
whether races have been found thru this location or not i dunno, but i've never hung there because that's sure what it looks like (having been driving thru the area for the past 25+ years i've seen the changes), so what better way to try and make an impression

imo, all this shyt going down, you need to fight the resemblence of law using the legal system

What drives me nuts is that this type of enforcement and intolerance should be focused on drunk driving!

Or how about the 61 yr old who took out a tractor trailer on the 427 yesterday or the 40-something man who killed himself Tuesday on 9th line south of G'town when he pulled out to pass on a two lane road and hit a tractor trailer head on - while not wearing a seat belt. How about $10,000 fines and suspension of their licenses?

How about the media get everyone all wound up about that crap? Or what about the guy yesterday on the 401 collectors doing 60 km/h or the drivers who insist on driving in the passing lane?

There should be more focus on the ppl who *are* doing illegal **** and stop worry about what people *might* be doing later.

umm.. drunk drivers already get license suspensions, get raped with insurance rates, and there are RIDE checks everywhere...

I think it's time to move on to "street racers"

and by street racers i mean people who actually race on the streets, as well as punks in souped up civics who have no clue about road manners and respect for others.

BTW, you guys keep saying that these are nto street racers who are being targeted, but "car enthusiasts".. what criteria do you use in your little head for differenciating between the two? if an illeally modified car is on the street, then i have no problems with it getting raped with tickets in a street racing blitz.. it shoudlnt be on the road anyways.

^ I'm sort of with him
I have made sure all my mods are legal so if I do get pulled over I cant get screwed. I would never street race but I do drive a little "spirited" at times. The worst I could get is >15 over so its no big deal to me. I just dont want to be hassled becuase of kids who have fuycked up driving the over powered car mommy and daddy bought them for graduation

really?! .... after how many offences? drunk driving enforcement is a JOKE!!

it's never time to move on to anything - the enforcement on people who drive while impaired should be ongoing and harsh.

should there be a crack down on excessive speed and dangerous drivers - ABSOLUTELY! but not *instead of* enforcing other, just as deadly, offences.

Yes, really..

Where does it say that enforcing anti-street racing laws will automatically reduce drinking and driving enforcement?

I personally know people who have been convicted of drinking and driving, lost their licenses.

I know people who got off on drinking and driving, but the thousands of dollars they spent on defending themselves certainly tought them a lesson.

I have been breathalized before myself.

Drinking and driving deaths are dropping.

On the other hand, I have never seen anyone get caught for street racing, nor have i been pulled over and accused of it. Yet I know more people who drive stupid on the roads, thinking the roads are their go-car track, than people who drive drunk.

^^^^
The focus right now is on the street racing and not on drinking and driving - that's my concern ... and altho I don't have the statistics, but I'd put money on the fact that more people have been killed by drunk drivers than street racers. Just my opinion.

Drinking and driving offences have NOT dropped actually - you just never hear about hem in the news cause we're all running around chasing speeders labelled as street racers. Dangerous driving is killing people, I'm not disputing that. I object to *everything* being labelled as street racing and to the fact that the media and the police get the public so would up.

The ride along featured on CityTV yesterday pulled over a VAN cause it was lowered and MIGHT be used for street racing. Why don't the police pull over anyone leaving the beer store cause they MIGHT be drunk. I helped a friend at a fundraising in front of a liquor store two weeks ago about about 80% of the cottage goers were ripped when they walked in.

It's just the lack of balance the drives me nuts is all ... and it's just my opinion afterall. Take what you want and leave the rest LOL

^ agreed.... I worked at the shell in Barrie at Molson Park and on long weekends we gave the cops lists of lisense plates of drunk drivers.
Its really pathetic and I think your comparisson of the beer and modified parts is strong.

just as my opinion is just my opinion as well :)

with respect to balance... it has to be a balance, since they have limited resources. I am honestly more worried about being hit by some irresponsible kid in an unsafe overpowered car, than a drunk driver. obviously you will find more drinking and driving deaths than street racing.. it is only because alcohol is everywhere and proportionally more people will do it.. it doesnt make street racing any safer or less of a problem.

here is an article i found:

In 1998, the total number of alcohol-related crash deaths nation-wide dropped below 1,000 for the first time since statistics have been available. Between 1988 and 2001, Ontario drinking and driving fatalities dropped by over half, from 439 to 204.

According to Transport Canada's report The Alcohol-Crash Problem in Canada: 2000, a total of 981 people died in alcohol-related crashes in 2000. This includes off-road vehicles, as well as pedestrians with alcohol in their blood.

Out of 420 pedestrian fatalities, 38 per cent of those tested for alcohol had been drinking, and most of these had BACs over 0.08.

Almost nine out of every 10 people killed in alcohol-related collisions (87.4 per cent) were in or on the drinking driver's vehicle (i.e. drivers/operators or passengers).

Almost nine out of every 10 drivers killed in alcohol-related collisions (87.5 per cent) were male.

Of all injured snowmobile operators who were killed, 62 per cent had been drinking, as had 49 per cent of the deceased operators of other off-road vehicles.

Over half (56 per cent) of the drivers killed in single-vehicle crashes tested positive for alcohol, compared to only 20 per cent of those killed in multiple-vehicle crashes.

good find on the article! I thought that I had heard that more recently (2006) the numbers were back up ... I know that where I live (g'town) the offences are definately on the rise.

Other people's opinions are great ... especially when they help you see a new point of view ... but usually they just lead to heated arguements to prove who's right. Just trying to avoid the later.

shes right....when u read the paper of any drunk driver gettin caught if you read down the page its normally not there first DUI...actually its normally not there second offence but there 4....5 sometimes there 13th, these drunk drivers do get back on the streets and dont tell me im wrong....if you live by angus u'd understand.

im still sayin suit me up and give me a badge i'll pull them out with my civic, its as easy as fast and furious...call me paul walker from now on please!

I wish I could remember where I heard a few weeks ago about how drinking and driving isn't enforced to the fullest level because it's socially acceptable to do it and if it was really enforced then important people would have to be held accountable.

It's was an interesting perspective for sure.

So once the street racing death toll reaches half of what the drunk driving death toll is i could see why they'd have a blitz on street racing and saturate the media with anti-street racing propaganda.
IMO i think they've just realized that they can't do much about drunk driving, so they've moved their attention to an easier target....street racers.
MOST street racers are younger people with cheaper cars, which naturally make an easy target. Its not likely, a 18 year old kid has the knowledge or resources to hire a high-profile attorney to fight for him in court.
So if the cops can nail kids with their modded cars and put it all over the news, it looks like they're actually doing something with our tax dollars.
There will always be a problem with drunk driving....its due to our society. You have to drive to the bar to get drunk right?
So i don't know why cops don't wait outside of bars to catch the drunk drivers. Or wait outside gun stores to catch people buying guns, so they can automatically assume they're guilty of murder.
I think crushing cars is rediculous, but if you are going to use that for punishment, it needs to be uniform. Crush a drunk drivers car, crush someone who runs a red lights car, crush someones penis who's guilty of rape.
I saw on the news, a cop, who was on duty and was drunk (over the legal limit) was backing out of a driveway and caused an accident, all he got was modified duty, no jail time, no DUI, his car didn't get crushed....i guess cops are above the law.

hahaha...y'all got busted at 403/Dundas...bout time...nuff idiots in that lot racing around it like its an auto slalom course and then booting it out of the lot to tear down dundas...I wish I was there for that eviction like the one the did at the coffee time down the street like 6 years ago...lotsa yall were in pampers still

I've seen like 5 accidents in that lot, I've seen too many idiots tear down dundas and even more tear around the parking lot...its about time they got in there and kicked yall out!