What happened to these teenagers mostly in California the other day is in many ways comical but yet for many young men and even men my age (myself included) is about the equivalent of being castrated.
What fate could be described as such you ask? having your pride and joy street rod confiscated, impounded and crushed by the authorities for street hot rodding violations of various degrees. This is mostly a male phenomenon, ( the automobile pride and joy pathological adulation illness that is) however the female sex is gaining on men in many ways ( such as the sexual predator category that we feature on this blog here), also when it comes to the automobile part of typical American life, hence the roads are a ever growing very dangerous place, and these street rods and their owners can make 'em even more dangerous with their antics.
We have a few places here in Chicago were we legally are allowed to show off our streetrods . To mention a few, one is the local what we here in Chicago call "Forest preserves" here in Chicago on the weekends, and a hotdog joint named Superdawg Drive In (history) on infamous Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. A place of which I and thousands of others frequented showing off, and I used to bring my semi tricked & souped 1976 L82 Corvette Stingray I owned for almost 15 years until very recently as illness has now forced me to downsize my automobile worship lifestyle per say to only1 vehicle, something much more practical and fun as I have always been partial to convertibles myself...
There were also a couple of legal drag strips where you could bring your hot rods to test their muscle all you wanted to up against other, not in actual races but against the stopwatch here in our area , a now defunct place called US 30 Dragstrip.
I alluded to this long practiced street racing hobby in my post the other day as it related to the drag racing deaths that occurred tragically last weekend, and sta t mau oram bted then that this activity takes place right on the roadways every day and night across the streets of America and has become a menace of large proportion.
This is California's answer to this growing problem, and whether or not I agree with it, they are doing it and I find the remedy quite extreme but as I said comical in a way.
What fate could be described as such you ask? having your pride and joy street rod confiscated, impounded and crushed by the authorities for street hot rodding violations of various degrees. This is mostly a male phenomenon, ( the automobile pride and joy pathological adulation illness that is) however the female sex is gaining on men in many ways ( such as the sexual predator category that we feature on this blog here), also when it comes to the automobile part of typical American life, hence the roads are a ever growing very dangerous place, and these street rods and their owners can make 'em even more dangerous with their antics.
We have a few places here in Chicago were we legally are allowed to show off our streetrods . To mention a few, one is the local what we here in Chicago call "Forest preserves" here in Chicago on the weekends, and a hotdog joint named Superdawg Drive In (history) on infamous Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. A place of which I and thousands of others frequented showing off, and I used to bring my semi tricked & souped 1976 L82 Corvette Stingray I owned for almost 15 years until very recently as illness has now forced me to downsize my automobile worship lifestyle per say to only1 vehicle, something much more practical and fun as I have always been partial to convertibles myself...
There were also a couple of legal drag strips where you could bring your hot rods to test their muscle all you wanted to up against other, not in actual races but against the stopwatch here in our area , a now defunct place called US 30 Dragstrip.
I alluded to this long practiced street racing hobby in my post the other day as it related to the drag racing deaths that occurred tragically last weekend, and sta t mau oram bted then that this activity takes place right on the roadways every day and night across the streets of America and has become a menace of large proportion.
This is California's answer to this growing problem, and whether or not I agree with it, they are doing it and I find the remedy quite extreme but as I said comical in a way.
Street racers’ souped-up cars crushed -Pretty drastic measures but the drag racing on streets full of cars from light to light is pretzty serious as well. People die unnecessarily, and not usually the culprit in those situations strangely.
Crim e & Punishment - MSNBC.com: "RIALTO, Calif. - Charles Hoang winced when the whoosh went out of the tires. Daniel Maldonado took pictures with a digital camera as glass exploded and rained down to the ground.
The cars the teens had so meticulously souped up and tricked out were crushed Wednesday as part of a crackdown on illegal street racing in Southern California.""That's my heart, my dream," said Hoang, 18, of Chino, who was surrounded by friends as his 1998 Acura Integra was put into a compactor. "That's my girlfriend, the love of my life. The cops can crush my car, but they can't crush my memories." read more
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