slayer_taunu

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/16404718.htm

volcanic2345

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dam that sucks! oh well i guess there is always yello belly or texas raceway lol

CamaroSS_2002

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Those laws aren't new btw, they have been in effect since 2004.

Shackleford

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Do cops use discretion when busting a "street race"? If 45 is empty at 1 AM, then a short little race would be relatively safe. Of course, I know speeding is illegal, but why are there harsher penalties for "street racing"? It's asinine.

01camaro3.8

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"They would pay a fine, and the fast and furious lifestyle would continue"

Fast and Furious is why

CamaroSS_2002

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Depends on the cop, but the law is the law, if you were racing you were racing doesn't matter if it's on a neigborhood street or the highway.

Typically if you're caught you goto jail immediately and your car is impounded.

It's treated the same as a DUI now.

CamaroSS_2002

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Ironically, it is true + a bust in Houston that was a very similar operation to the street race scene you see in the first FF movie.

My friend's a cop and when these new laws went into effect the pamplets they sent to the PD's across texas were titled "The fast and furious is no more"

skipperbisket

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street racing should carry a MUCH harsher penalty/punishment in my opinion.... start making it so expensive people can't afford to risk it.

01 Red WS6

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There are a ton of people that can't afford the punishment now and yet they still street race. Making it more expesnive won't solve the problem

skipperbisket

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thats where HARSHER punishment comes into play...

Shackleford

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Uh. People are always going to break the law. You're not going to STOP street racing. I think there should be harsher punishments depending on the circumstances.

DSIM

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If you put the punishment on circumstances, too much of a grey area. Best to have a blanket law. Bottom line, the **** is illegal. Did I do it? Yes, almost went to jail a couple times as well.... and wont ever do it again.

U2SLOW4ME

Nothing new, It's been a Class B for a while now. The movies did help with it I think though. Hell I stopped a 17 year old a couple weeks ago trying to race a Porshe on I35E S at 3 in the afternoon. The kid was in a Chrysler Sebring Convt. STUPID, like he had a chance anyway. People like that are the ones that kill.

11 Bravo

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"We do see those little cars with their mufflers, but there's just no place for racers out here," said Roanoke Police Chief Gary Johnson

orangeapeel

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They should take a ******** from men, and make a chick go down a bust size on top of the already outstanding penalty.

orangeapeel

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you stoppped him how? By deciding not to race the porsche yourself in the Sebring? jest:

Mexican

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I fixed that for ya

TWS

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This is America. There is going to be some street racing. Whether cops/government wants to acknowledge it or not, it is part of our culture. If you disagree, go watch American Graffitti and several other movies that make my point.

I think F&F definitely excited an element that I do not care for: the young stupid guy with an Asian car.

"My" kind of street racing was done meeting out on a deserted country highway, late at night, outside of town. "His" is done in the middle of the day, in traffic, so he can brag to his neon-lighted, fart-can muffler buddies that he's living the "lifestyle" and that Vin Diesel would be proud of him.

I believe it is these tards, rather than the (perhaps) older crowd with American muscle cars, that prompted the new laws and crackdowns. The comments by law enforcement support my claim.

Just FYI, 90% of my racing is done at the track, where it should be (for the most part )

BP

Plenty of laws against killing people and selling drugs but they still happen. True, you'll never eliminate it all but with stringent enough laws and enforcement you can cut it down to the point where it rarely ever happens.

It seems wrong to enforce a law thats responsible for 26 deaths (anything remotely related to racing) though when 20x that amount lose their life in drug related homicides. Not counting the amount that die from overdosing and all the other nice crimes we get as a result.

the man

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"In Texas, street-racing crashes killed 26 people in 2005, according to the most recent statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Since 2001, more than 90 people have been killed nationwide each year in such accidents, those statistics show."

smoking kills millions a year