DRIFTING BAN?

[daytona drifter]

thanks lately, my analogies have been teh suck (SAT ftl)... I was afraid someone would give me sh*t about the right to bear arms and the laws of modifying your car or something along those lines...

your one about modding cars sucks because you tried to bring down my beloved doge. nad about bearing arms, my thread about that got deleted after three posts, but i was just ****ing around with it. but really, that was a good analogy.

p.s. i loved the analogies on the sat, wish the kept them there for the new ones, i pwnzored them hard core.

[daytona drifter]

ya, im that great

[DriftingJesus]

It'll keep f*** from flipping their 240s in residential neighborhoods, well that and getting rid of sprinklers

[bobotech]

BTW I am NOT advocating a drifting ban on tracks or sanctioned events such as a radio station rents a parking lot for a drifting event or other event on private property that has blessings from the owner.

I only want to see drifting targeted and banned on the streets where you have idiots whipping their cars around corners in neighborhoods and so on or on private property such as parking lots when there is no event scheduled.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

Gainesville Raceway frowns upon drifters because they **** up the runoff areas, and when a drifter spins out, it screws the rest of us out of a run.

I'm pro-banning drifting at regular "test and tune" events.

[daytona drifter]

i wish i could have gotton up to gainsville this month to track my car

[bobotech]

Gainesville Raceway frowns upon drifters because they **** up the runoff areas, and when a drifter spins out, it screws the rest of us out of a run.

I'm pro-banning drifting at regular "test and tune" events.

Interesting. Never thought about that. But if a raceway or whatever wants to have a drift event, than thats their prerogative but if drifting is forbidden by the rules, out you go!

[JustinStrife]

Profiling WORKS.

Profiling is GOOD.

Nothing wrong with profiling when it nails the bad guy.

Go after riced out cars and cars commonly associated with drifting and you will nail more idiots.

I'd prefer if the cops weren't watching my every shift thank you very much. Gives me a complex.

[dickie]

best of luck to you guys out there in CA.

[Urabus GodofTraction]

i wish i could have gotton up to gainsville this month to track my car

May 5th. $40 all day. Bring a helmet.

[MinisterofDOOM]

LOL at the image of an Eclipse for the news graphic by the anchor's head. Those drifting Eclipses sure are a menace.

[daytona drifter]

If i can borrow a helmet, get a hold of a set of tires, and get time off for work i could pry do it, i will however be up this weekend for some more partys


Modified by daytona drifter at 7:47 PM 4/24/2007

[hannibal]

Drifting's illegal?!? Oh noes!!

[S3t0_S13]

yes, lets ban it off tracks as well, so i can have a reason 2 drift in teh streetz

but officers, i cantz pay $50 and be in a safe offroad enviroment, so i rather do itz out her and hit little timmy and the mailbox cuz tsuchiya told me i have 2

[Nick240sx]

LOL at the image of an Eclipse for the news graphic by the anchor's head. Those drifting Eclipses sure are a menace.

hahaha i noticed that too when i saw it.

[nopilot s13]

Profiling WORKS.

Profiling is GOOD.

Nothing wrong with profiling when it nails the bad guy.

Go after riced out cars and cars commonly associated with drifting and you will nail more idiots.

You should have a career in law enforcment. Maybe you already do?

[corey240]

the people outside of sports, no mater what sport, drifting, drag racing, skateboard, bmx, dont understand that when they are no parks or tracks to go to, we do it on the street. i skated the exact same places for 6 years everyday and the cops came everyday and kicked us out. now after saying it for 37 years, our town got a bad *** skatepark. the last thing people need to do is be saying that drifting is associated to drugs and all that bs because there is no proof.

im pretty shore theres drug dealers out there racing with badass cars but we dont want anything to do with em. if the close a track, or ban drifting from it, it WILL be heavier on the streets.

[nopilot s13]

I hope to god that they start banning drifting on the streets.

Make it a fine/conviction as bad as reckless driving/racing!!

That will teach those stupid kids from drifting in the streets. The part that I really hope they go after is drifting on unsanctioned private property. In otherwords, you drift in the walmart parking lot, you can get nailed for a big time offense that is equal to or worse than racing.

Way to go!

Obviously this has no bearing on sanctioned race tracks.

Okay Mr.Perfect , so your profile says "looks stock,runs 8s" . . . and you have never broke the tires loose off the track huh? Never had a violation?Even when you yourself were younger and refered to as a 'stupid kid'? WOW!!! I find that hard to believe.
Modified by nopilot s13 at 12:18 PM 4/25/2007

[adrianfromthecastle]

Okay Mr.Perfect , so your profile says "looks stock,runs 8s" . . . and you have never broke the tires loose off the track huh? Never had a violation?Even when you yourself were younger and refered to as a 'stupid kid'? WOW!!! I find that hard to believe.

Modified by nopilot s13 at 12:18 PM 4/25/2007

LOL... "looks stock, runs 8's" refers to post count... something older members are familiar with... LOL

[bobotech]

Okay Mr.Perfect , so your profile says "looks stock,runs 8s" . . . and you have never broke the tires loose off the track huh? Never had a violation?Even when you yourself were younger and refered to as a 'stupid kid'? WOW!!! I find that hard to believe.

WTH? "looksstock, runs 8s"? Thats that old post count thing.

I have never had a violation relating to breaking tires loose myself. I was in a car with a friend who did get a ticket though once. That happened 20+ years ago.

I had to pay for my own car insurance and payments ever since I was 16 so I was keenly aware that my misgivings and playing around would cost me big bucks.

I was a stupid kid (we all were) but some are just stupider than others.

[skydragoness]

Gainesville Raceway frowns upon drifters because they **** up the runoff areas, and when a drifter spins out, it screws the rest of us out of a run.

I'm pro-banning drifting at regular "test and tune" events.

Drifting may be 'cool' and 'what's hot' right now and such but it seriously does put some heavy wear and tear on the tracks that *do* allow it. And usually does a disservice to everyone else.

Buuuuttt... I still think that any circuit or even a simplistic circle track should at least try to offer something for people who want to drift--whatever they need to do to keep it off the streets IMO.

[nopilot s13]

WTH? "looksstock, runs 8s"? Thats that old post count thing.

I have never had a violation relating to breaking tires loose myself. I was in a car with a friend who did get a ticket though once. That happened 20+ years ago.

I had to pay for my own car insurance and payments ever since I was 16 so I was keenly aware that my misgivings and playing around would cost me big bucks.

I was a stupid kid (we all were) but some are just stupider than others.

My bad. . . . . .didn't know that was a posting thing.Guess thats what i get for hanging around hot rod shops and drag strips.

All i am trying to say here though is , lets not be hypocritical of others. We have all done something at one time or another. Don't get me wrong though,I disagree with street racing. Putting innocent bystanders at risk is just plain STUPID!!!

I think your profiling comment really set me off!!! Try living in a town where all you need to do to be profiled is be under the age of 30. I am a family oriented guy.Go home every night,no drugs/drinking,have a excelling career in the sales dealing with both residential and commercial sales. Am respected by my piers, And honestly think that i am a strait up descent guy, but i Guaranty if you saw me on the weekend you would PROFILE me as a punk kid! (why- i don't look 30 and i love the mohawks that me and my 4 year old boy have)

I'm done- To each his own.

[bobotech]

. Am respected by my piers, And honestly think that i am a strait up descent guy, but i Guaranty if you saw me on the weekend you would PROFILE me as a punk kid! (why- i don't look 30 and i love the mohawks that me and my 4 year old boy have)

If I saw you as a cop and you were driving around with a mohawk and driving a louder than stock car with custom rims and maybe some stickers or custom bodywork or other things that show you are a "car guy", yes, I would probably watch you extra close. If you did nothing wrong, then no harm or foul done.

Thats my point. Profiling works and the problem with people who get picked on, is that they sometimes have something to hide (loud exhaust, illegal engine mods, etc) and thats why they get irate. They don't' feel that they should be picked on more than some guy driving a plain jane corrola but thats not how it works.

You draw/attract attention, you will get it whether you want it or not. Live to confine with the limits of said attention and you won't have any problems. Push the boundaries (spinning your tires or having too loud of exhaust are big ones), then you might get nailed for it and then they can inspect your engine for other illegal mods.

[Dattebayo]

Its all well and good to try and tell the good people from the bad when it comes to drifting, but the only way to make sure that one part of the crowd doesn't attend is to disallow the entire crowd from taking part in the sport.

I love how its been decided that "young minority males" are the sport's leading participants. I wonder if they were headed toward the term "idiot Mexican in FWD attempting to drift turns and brother hanging out of passenger window with baseball bat taking out mailboxes" LOL what a picture that is! haha

Plus you have all the crazies in CA anyway. Maybe an official drift license should be instituted for tracks and all spectators limited to those without a criminal record.

[corey240]

well when one of you get slammed by an idiot drifting on the street and he comes up using the "so where are we supposed to go" excuse, he will live it stronge until he gets a place to go. im serious, go talk to local cops about skateboarders doing it, you really dont take me serious on how far that has went to eventuly getting places to go after so long.

[Dattebayo]

you really dont take me serious on how far that has went to eventuly getting places to go after so long.

huh?

[corey240]

the only reason our town had a skate park built was because we tore the **** up out of everything, they even said that at the final decision " its beter to have this small chunk of change to go towards haveing a safe environment where the town doesnt get beat to **** anymore thus improving the towns llok, no more will there be broken benches and torn up stairs and hand rails"

[Dattebayo]

So your town built a skate park because you guys were drifting on park benches, up stairs and rails?

Wowsers.

[nopilot s13]

Profiling works and the problem with people who get picked on, is that they sometimes have something to hide (loud exhaust, illegal engine mods, etc) and thats why they get irate. They don't' feel that they should be picked on more than some guy driving a plain jane corrola but thats not how it works.

There is probably some guy driving a corrola right now with a body in the trunk,smoking crack and wearing a business suit. What about Waco? (nice church going folks)Menendez brothers? (some good Beverly hills boys)

PROFILING=DISCRIMINATION

[Dattebayo]

PROFILING=DISCRIMINATION

haha life is so unfair, isnt it?

Imperfect solutions are pretty common. It goes both ways, my friend.