Hot Rod Hell - States and cities battle the latest social media-fueled lawlessness: street takeovers.

City Journal ^ | 13 Oct, 2024 | Steven Malanga

[MtnClimber]

Rebels without a clue.

[xoxox]

Whoa. I thought all those electric scooters and pseudo-bicycles was bad...

[dragnet2]

Those are not hot rods...

[xoxox]

Used to be a common sight on 1st Ave on a Sunday eve.

[V_TWIN]

I have a 100% effective solution to stop this idiocy......when caught, confiscate the car and crush the MFers.

These jerks have so much money tied up in these cars they wouldn’t dare risk getting caught.

[dragnet2]

This is a HOT ROD....Those hysterical children doing donuts at intersections have no clue what hots rods are.

[NorthMountain]

There is also a belt-fed solution to the problem ...

[GSWarrior]

Street takeovers are fairly common in Oakland. It’s not always a group of people. Sometimes it’s just one or two vehicles. We have been awakened three times in the past two years at 5am by one car doing spin outs in the intersection next to our house for several minutes. We live in a generally quiet neighborhood.

[GSWarrior]

Many of the vehicles used in street takeovers are stolen.

[Lockbox]

There are no New Laws required. What the citizens of those areas should do is sue the local government for failure to police the area for which the government only has that authority. The suit should also address the failure of these governments to allow citizens the unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This would make the suit Federal!

[eyeamok]

we did a lot of stupid shit with our cars and motorcycles in the 70’s but we never took over streets, we found places that were vacant and nobody to complain was near.

[xp38]

Mad Max wannabes.

[uranium penguin]

The real take away here..

The Police CAN NOT/ WILL NOT protect you.

You are on you own.

[BipolarBob]

"Get off my lawn street.

[sten]

Blue state problems

Don’t care

[V_TWIN]

I was thinking more like The Fast and Furious wannabes.

Before that movie series started you never heard this much about this idiocy.

[Ikeon]

I have to say crushing those cars would slow them down. Until the aclu would get involved citing the " unreasonable search and seizure " of said vehicles. Now impounding them and raising fines to 10k and crushing all the unpaid ones after 90 days with no court action.

of course you would need the local city council to pass local ordinances to support this. simply bring in a couple of those armored cars and block off the street in both directions. Even if it's a 4 mile long parade. Block off one block and haul away any vehicle caught in the area. DO this a few times and the perps would soon get the idea. Also grant the cops permission to use deadly force if anyone assaults a police officer.

but none of this is going to happen until the city council gets involved. And someone is willing to take on the aclu.

[V_TWIN]

I was thinking more like the state Legislature write a bill the Governor can sign into law.

That’s exactly how Florida got rid of the lowlife squatters exploiting a loophole.

[MtnClimber]

The problem is that this usually happens in the "Blue Hive" cities and the administration approves of the chaos.

"The worse the better" - V. Lenin