Street racing gone bad
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Teching In
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From: Rochester, NY
Sure is a lot of f-bodies on there 
Looks like natural selection at work. That is, if you are dumb enough to do it, you may get eliminated from the face of the planet. No different than lemmings following each other off a cliff. Takes a lot bigger man to say "no" to a street race IMO.
Looks like natural selection at work. That is, if you are dumb enough to do it, you may get eliminated from the face of the planet. No different than lemmings following each other off a cliff. Takes a lot bigger man to say "no" to a street race IMO.
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From: Mechanicsville, VA
Originally Posted by Reckless
Looks like natural selection at work.
I agree.
Originally Posted by Reckless
That is, if you are dumb enough to do it, you may get eliminated from the face of the planet. No different than lemmings following each other off a cliff.
I agree again. However, that statement should be directed at the people in that vid, not blanketed towards streetracing in general. Those people are stupid for doing what they did in their particular situation, obviously, because they are dead.
When it's done right and with some common damn sense nobody gets hurt. The people that know what they're doing are fine, you hear about them all the time; they post on this board among many others, make vids, etc.
Originally Posted by Reckless
Takes a lot bigger man to say "no" to a street race IMO.
And it takes "common sense" to say "yes" and participate in an orderly manner.
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the thing i hate bout people saying street racing is sooo bad . . infact it is bad ive seen sum messed up stuff. . but drunk driving > street racing in deaths. . i dont think that there are that many crashes i know that when they crash most people arent going to walk away . . and its worse but i mean things go wrong everday . .
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From: Chicago IL.
I agree again. However, that statement should be directed at the people in that vid, not blanketed towards streetracing in general. Those people are stupid for doing what they did in their particular situation, obviously, because they are dead.
When it's done right and with some common damn sense nobody gets hurt. The people that know what they're doing are fine, you hear about them all the time; they post on this board among many others, make vids, etc.
And it takes "common sense" to say "yes" and participate in an orderly manner.[/QUOTE]
When it's done right and with some common damn sense nobody gets hurt. The people that know what they're doing are fine, you hear about them all the time; they post on this board among many others, make vids, etc.
And it takes "common sense" to say "yes" and participate in an orderly manner.[/QUOTE]
Teching In
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as long as street racing DOESN'T endanger innocent lives, I don't see a problem with it... We have a very well known road here out in the middle of no where that has had street racing every Friday and Saturday night for probably the last 15 years, most people know about it, and i know several cops who run their daily drivers out there all the time...
now as far as light to light racing in town or on an interstate, there is no place for that and I'll be quick to report the tag of someone endangering innocent people's lives... call me a douche but I think people like that don't deserve to drive...
now as far as light to light racing in town or on an interstate, there is no place for that and I'll be quick to report the tag of someone endangering innocent people's lives... call me a douche but I think people like that don't deserve to drive...
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And it takes an idiot to think that ANY kind of street racing is safe, because man, its the street. You do NOT know what may happen. Sure, it may be 3am, the backroads are empty, you get on it against a buddy, you're doing 120...oh ****! Where did that deer/rabbit/turtle come from? Natural instinct, swerve - oh ****, I'm dead.
I'll leave this thread up for a couple days, but its going away soon. Too much discussion that is not multimedia related.
I'll leave this thread up for a couple days, but its going away soon. Too much discussion that is not multimedia related.
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From: Mechanicsville, VA
Originally Posted by PendragonZ
And it takes an idiot to think that ANY kind of street racing is safe, because man, its the street. You do NOT know what may happen. Sure, it may be 3am, the backroads are empty, you get on it against a buddy, you're doing 120...oh ****! Where did that deer/rabbit/turtle come from? Natural instinct, swerve - oh ****, I'm dead.
And the same thing could happen to me driving down the interstate doing 65mph and obeying every law ever made. There are dangers every time you get behind the wheel, regardless of whether your racing or coming home from work.
And FWIW, I've seen more animals, trash, things that could possibly cause an accident, etc. on interstates and public highways than I ever have on "backroads" that get raced on. In my 7 years of streetracing I've never seen or heard of a deer or any other animal jumping out in front of someone.
Teching In
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From: florida
racing at the track is safe as well, but there are still dangers. unless your willing to spend thousands on the safe pods and stuff that boat racers and nhra has, racing is very dangerous.
we have street races every thursday night at my grandfathers property. for about 8 years now we've held all kinds of bracket, grudge, or fun races and never had a problem. granted its not the interstate, its still the street and still relativly safe. theres no telling when a car could explode, blow a mismanufactured tire, or have a tire fall off and flip. its the dangers of racing and can happen whether your on the street or at the track.
we have street races every thursday night at my grandfathers property. for about 8 years now we've held all kinds of bracket, grudge, or fun races and never had a problem. granted its not the interstate, its still the street and still relativly safe. theres no telling when a car could explode, blow a mismanufactured tire, or have a tire fall off and flip. its the dangers of racing and can happen whether your on the street or at the track.
Originally Posted by grandsport96
not knocking on the video either but, i can bet not all of those are from street racing. the neon looked like it was tboned
On The Tree
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From: San Marcos
I am not bashing the maker of the video and I agree that street racing is a bad Idea I want to point out a couple of things I saw a couple cars that looked out of place for a "look what hapens when you street race video" there was a mercury about half way through some kind of buick about 3/4ths of the way through and a VAN WTF??? certainly not street racing cars.
and FWIW I have seen just as bad if not worse accidents from people obeying the law and driving right, and in the 5 years I have been a firefighter I have NEVER seen a street racing accident.
and FWIW I have seen just as bad if not worse accidents from people obeying the law and driving right, and in the 5 years I have been a firefighter I have NEVER seen a street racing accident.