Olesen_Custom_Automotive

http://video.aol.com/video/news-poli...racers/2056786


you will cry

jct

i knew about that two years ago

Big_Bird

really old news

CRUZtc8

x2

matt_a

I can't watch the video from here because of a corporate firewall, but I'm pretty sure I know what it is from before. I'm not crying. If your dumb enough to street race, you shouldn't have a car or a liscense...period. No acceptions.

Olesen_Custom_Automotive

well **** guys, its on AOL news right now so i fiigured i's share it with everyone


sorry for being late

UNiT_xEr0

haha all good

Olesen_Custom_Automotive

well, what would you need to do in order to have your car crushed???


like, are they impounded cars that havent been claimed for??

RodC

They claim these are cars which have been impounded for street racing and then found to have stolen engines. The owners can get the cars back by showing papers to prove the parts are bought and not stolen. No papers = no car back.

This was breaking news in 2004.

matt_a

Again, I haven't seen the exact video you posted, but the news story I heard about a year ago was similar. I don't remember all tha particulars, but they were crushing the cars of people who were caught street racing. That was the punishment. I think it's great.
It's like this: I'm all for legal gun ownership. But if I would get caught shooting a gun in a reckless way that endangered someone's life, I would think the cops would be justified in taking my gun away.

TheScionicMan

In the video, the cop claims that most of them had stolen engines and/or parts. The judge didn't want them to pull the engines and then give them a shell of a car just waiting for an engine. He said the owners were given the chance to show up with proper paperwork, etc, but hardly any did.

I understand it has more visual impact, but its lame to crush the wheels and other reusable parts. Our tax dollars at work...

jct

and if your making payments on a car that you raced and it got crushed you have to make payments on that crushed cubed of a car

Gman1028

I think it is a fitting punishment for those guys they post this about twice a year on the news sites to scare people away from racing illegally when it is made so easy and available to race legally on a track

spng-bxb

im kinda confused....i understand crushing cars, but stolen engines, how do you steal an engine? lol

jct

buy 'em from chop shops

Olesen_Custom_Automotive

remember Fast and the Furious when johnny tran was in the garage with the Spoon engine guy??

lol wow

spng-bxb

yea i guess thats true, but i didnt think it really happened.

nothing like this ever happens around my area, so i dont know alot about it.

Olesen_Custom_Automotive

if i knew someone had a $10k engine in a peice of sh*t civic...i'd prob. conspire for it

Gman1028

I had a friend who got snagged in one of these rings in Denver he had his integra stolen and they only found the car a week later in the parking lot of a apartment complex no drive train or stereo the rest of the car was there