Another street racing death

Yesterday (monday) a 53 year old lady was killed in Lancater, Ohio while crossing the street. Two ricers were racing when one hit the lady and never stopped. They found the car but do not have a driver as of yet. I hope they hang the retard.

just a couple weeks ago a kid that we used to live a couple doors from got killed just a few hours after getting his license...17 years old with a 3 hour old license while talking on his cellphone, racing with a buddy on a unfamiliar road, hit some gravel at high speed in his Escort, then a tree...
Zach Jordan was a good kid that made a few stupid mistakes. at least no one else was injured, but still, what a shame...I just hope and pray every new - or soon to be- driver out there heard of his story, and might realize this stuff DOES happen.

Originally Posted by 347LX

Yesterday (monday) a 53 year old lady was killed in Lancater, Ohio while crossing the street. Two ricers were racing when one hit the lady and never stopped. They found the car but do not have a driver as of yet. I hope they hang the retard.

that really sucks. the retard will probably slide out of it by saying somethin stupid like "i didnt know my car was gone" or something lame like that, that is if they find the punk. F$%kin ricers!

as far as the dumbass who died while racing his friend well, generally people are taught how to drive by their folks so i say its equal fault there him being a moron and them for being moron ass parents.

Originally Posted by dbu8554

as far as the dumbass who died while racing his friend well, generally people are taught how to drive by their folks so i say its equal fault there him being a moron and them for being moron ass parents.

I tend to agree, still......must've been a rough way to check out!

As I posted last year, If you're caught street racing in California your car is confiscated and you go to jail. Then at some later date your car is placed in a crusher and you are made to watch as it is crushed. Sounds harsh,but racing on a crowded street is not too bright. As added punishment you must continue to pay the loan off if you owe money on it.

Originally Posted by Calspec

As I posted last year, If you're caught street racing in California your car is confiscated and you go to jail. Then at some later date your car is placed in a crusher and you are made to watch as it is crushed. Sounds harsh,but racing on a crowded street is not too bright. As added punishment you must continue to pay the loan off if you owe money on it.

Doesnt sound too harsh to me. Back in "the day" when I was a teenager and in my early 20's, if you had a cubic inch score to settle, you went to the "strip" and lined em up. In the town I grew up in, the strip was an old small airport strip on the north outskirts of town, the runway was a mile long(the actual buildings got blew away by a tornado) but still is in pretty drivable shape. you drive to the other end to make sure there wasnt anything in the path of travel, turned around, a buddy lined you up even and when the flashlight flashed...........the rubber burned. Since it was considered private property, the cops didnt bug you much, infact, they incouraged using the strip, which to them was way better than chasing you through town. Still in use today, or so I hear since I dont live there anymore. Street racing never really appealed to me basically because I like my car a LOT and have no desire to see it in a impound yard or even worse........a smashed, twisted piece of metal sitting in a junk yard. I think everyone who has been into cars is guilty of smokin em off at a stop light or runnin em from light to light, at least a few times but racing through blocks of residential streets or heavily populated areas is just asking for disaster.

I just hope the news reported it as street racing and not drag racing. There is a huge difference and anyone that is a member of NHRA has been encouraged to send a note to news agencies requesting that it is referred too as such.

[quote=mustang42782;1421414]I just hope the news reported it as street racing and not drag racing. There is a huge difference and anyone that is a member of NHRA has been encouraged to send a note to news agencies requesting that it is referred too as such.[/quote
Actually they did say "street racing".

Originally Posted by forddude

Doesnt sound too harsh to me. Back in "the day" when I was a teenager and in my early 20's, if you had a cubic inch score to settle, you went to the "strip" and lined em up. In the town I grew up in, the strip was an old small airport strip on the north outskirts of town, the runway was a mile long(the actual buildings got blew away by a tornado) but still is in pretty drivable shape. you drive to the other end to make sure there wasnt anything in the path of travel, turned around, a buddy lined you up even and when the flashlight flashed...........the rubber burned. Since it was considered private property, the cops didnt bug you much, infact, they incouraged using the strip, which to them was way better than chasing you through town. Still in use today, or so I hear since I dont live there anymore. Street racing never really appealed to me basically because I like my car a LOT and have no desire to see it in a impound yard or even worse........a smashed, twisted piece of metal sitting in a junk yard. I think everyone who has been into cars is guilty of smokin em off at a stop light or runnin em from light to light, at least a few times but racing through blocks of residential streets or heavily populated areas is just asking for disaster.

I didn't want to muck about with the sad topic of this thread, but now that you brought it up, this is kind of what I was thinking. When I was young (late 70s) we would meet at a local burger joint and swap stories about whatever it was that we were doing to our cars at the time; Any smack was in good fun. If one thing lead to another and someone wanted to race, they usually just paired off and if you saw two cars discretely leaving it was kind of assumed they were going to race. There was no throng of spectators tagging along to watch, you were either doing it, or you were wishing you were doing it, but spectating is just not something we did back then. So the two drivers, usually with a friend riding shotgun as a witness, would drive out to a 2 mile stretch of rural 4 lane about 10 minutes away. Late at night there was never anyone out there, and you could see down the road for at least a mile. There was an overpass about 1/4 mile down the road from a streetlight where we would line em up, it was all very smart and professional. Any glory was done with story telling later on that night. In fact it added to the fun. We were in our late teens and early twenties but we had the common sense to take precautions and not be reckless idiots like people seem to be today. I lost too many friends to drunk driving in those years, but no one ever hurt anyone street racing. People are just stupid and reckless today, no matter what they are doing.