Anonymous wrote:It’s wild to see people here defending the street racing and takeovers. A few years back there was a group that would come to Ocean City, Maryland in September and take over the streets for the weekend. It was organized on social media. The police clamped down hard and ran them out of town. They then moved onto Wildwood, New Jersey where two innocent people did get killed by the reckless driving of one of the takeover participants. There were other serious accidents as well. But I guess some of you want something like that to happen on your local streets? Why? Are you so committed to your liberal identity that you have to defend anything that Republicans dislike? I have never voted anything but blue and the takeover and street racing stuff is very clearly a threat to public safety.

Anonymous wrote:Well, I’ve read about Trump’s plan to have some sort of “Grand Prix” this summer, with cars racing through downtown DC . As much as I condemn the takeover of streets by random drivers, it’s interesting to imagine what penalties might be appropriate when their toddler in chief is making plans to do all of that — and more. Not sure when the cage fight on the White House grounds is scheduled, but I’m sure I’ll have suitably appalled comments and reactions then too. Trump’s life-goal is to be an extra for the Dukes of Hazzard.

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Anonymous wrote:Mhhmmm. Yet on the real estate forum people frequently talk about how they would *never* live in Virginia because it's too (fill in the blank with your favorite derogatory stereotype).

Seems at least the police here are not into letting people drive 110 mph.

What? Just because you don't know about it, it doesn't mean it's not happening in NOVA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/1ohs1bb/street_racers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/nn90s6/street_racing_idiots_at_rt_28_and_50_interchange/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/qulrkg/fairfax_co_police_investigate_latenight_saturday/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/1nts6s4/multiple_accidents_on_beltway_following_auto/

Street racing in Reston is different than taking over the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and East West Highway near country clubs and one of the richest neighborhoods in Montgomery County to do donuts at high speeds while cops watch helplessly. You know that too. This is the equivalent of some thugs taking over Washington Street and Route 7 in Falls Church City and doing donuts at 110 mph while the Falls Church cops sat there and did nothing, which has never happened and will never happen because VA is not a failed state.

You cannot simultaneously drive 110 mph and do donuts. Pick one. If you're going to use hyperbole to make a point, at least don't be dumb about it.

Anonymous wrote:Mhhmmm. Yet on the real estate forum people frequently talk about how they would *never* live in Virginia because it's too (fill in the blank with your favorite derogatory stereotype).

Seems at least the police here are not into letting people drive 110 mph.

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Anonymous wrote:Every single wekeend the racing you can hear in MD is absolutely out of control. Idiot wannabe Fast and the Furious clowns in their POS modified cars are ruining the quality of life for so many people around them. The local police are useless, because they'll refuse to go after them. The hoodlums also know they can race all over roads and cross county lines between MoCo/PG or go into DC and police will have trouble following them.

It has been so bad recently that you can hear their ridiculously stupid cars for miles approaching midnight on Sundays. They are so loud people on social media think there are jets flying over DC every weekend night because they think there are sonic booms from jet engines when it is just idiots in their cheap junk rice burners with modified exhausts.

PG and MoCo govts are worthless. The state of MD needs to being the hammer or change laws so these miscreants cannot evade by crossing county lines. They should also make it way easier to impound and crush cars that do this crap. There was a recent video of this human garbage doing a takeover in Chevy Chase and the cops being worthless. They're now so brazen that they even hold up signs for their tiktok channels at their takeovers in Chevy Chase because they know law enforcement won't do anything. How long do we have to tolerate this disgusting antisocial behavior until they kill people? They're racing all over local roads going 110 mph.

How do you know it's 110mph?

Ooh let me answer this! Because when I was at court for my own parking tickets one of those guys was in court for speeding. He shows up in a racing jacket. No lie. The judge reads his speeding ticket charge for going about 110mph and amount due and he shrugs at the judge. (A lot of those guys are wealthy coder types and a $200 ticket is nothing.)

Well the judge tacked on a reckless and some other charges. Threw the book. Hit him with it. Told him to see the clerk about paying 10x that original ticket.

But that’s how I know.

Wealthy white collar types are street racing in modded cars? White computer geeks are doing this, really!?

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Anonymous wrote:Every single wekeend the racing you can hear in MD is absolutely out of control. Idiot wannabe Fast and the Furious clowns in their POS modified cars are ruining the quality of life for so many people around them. The local police are useless, because they'll refuse to go after them. The hoodlums also know they can race all over roads and cross county lines between MoCo/PG or go into DC and police will have trouble following them.

It has been so bad recently that you can hear their ridiculously stupid cars for miles approaching midnight on Sundays. They are so loud people on social media think there are jets flying over DC every weekend night because they think there are sonic booms from jet engines when it is just idiots in their cheap junk rice burners with modified exhausts.

PG and MoCo govts are worthless. The state of MD needs to being the hammer or change laws so these miscreants cannot evade by crossing county lines. They should also make it way easier to impound and crush cars that do this crap. There was a recent video of this human garbage doing a takeover in Chevy Chase and the cops being worthless. They're now so brazen that they even hold up signs for their tiktok channels at their takeovers in Chevy Chase because they know law enforcement won't do anything. How long do we have to tolerate this disgusting antisocial behavior until they kill people? They're racing all over local roads going 110 mph.

How do you know it's 110mph?

Ooh let me answer this! Because when I was at court for my own parking tickets one of those guys was in court for speeding. He shows up in a racing jacket. No lie. The judge reads his speeding ticket charge for going about 110mph and amount due and he shrugs at the judge. (A lot of those guys are wealthy coder types and a $200 ticket is nothing.)

Well the judge tacked on a reckless and some other charges. Threw the book. Hit him with it. Told him to see the clerk about paying 10x that original ticket.

But that’s how I know.

Wealthy white collar types are street racing in modded cars? White computer geeks are doing this, really!?

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Anonymous wrote:Every single wekeend the racing you can hear in MD is absolutely out of control. Idiot wannabe Fast and the Furious clowns in their POS modified cars are ruining the quality of life for so many people around them. The local police are useless, because they'll refuse to go after them. The hoodlums also know they can race all over roads and cross county lines between MoCo/PG or go into DC and police will have trouble following them.

It has been so bad recently that you can hear their ridiculously stupid cars for miles approaching midnight on Sundays. They are so loud people on social media think there are jets flying over DC every weekend night because they think there are sonic booms from jet engines when it is just idiots in their cheap junk rice burners with modified exhausts.

PG and MoCo govts are worthless. The state of MD needs to being the hammer or change laws so these miscreants cannot evade by crossing county lines. They should also make it way easier to impound and crush cars that do this crap. There was a recent video of this human garbage doing a takeover in Chevy Chase and the cops being worthless. They're now so brazen that they even hold up signs for their tiktok channels at their takeovers in Chevy Chase because they know law enforcement won't do anything. How long do we have to tolerate this disgusting antisocial behavior until they kill people? They're racing all over local roads going 110 mph.

How do you know it's 110mph?

Ooh let me answer this! Because when I was at court for my own parking tickets one of those guys was in court for speeding. He shows up in a racing jacket. No lie. The judge reads his speeding ticket charge for going about 110mph and amount due and he shrugs at the judge. (A lot of those guys are wealthy coder types and a $200 ticket is nothing.)

Well the judge tacked on a reckless and some other charges. Threw the book. Hit him with it. Told him to see the clerk about paying 10x that original ticket.

But that’s how I know.

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Anonymous wrote:How is this affecting you, OP?


It’s not. You just want something to complain about.

Exactly. Unless we can find actual harm to a person, not the state, these things shouldn't be a crime. You have a right to face your accuser.

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Anonymous wrote:Im so glad Rockville is boring so these scum don’t come drag racing on the Pike.

The news just had a piece on driving doughnuts at 3 a.m. in a parking lot off Southlawn.