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dutchmasterflex · 06-19-2006, 09:54 AM

Blame Canada!

Government promotes stunt to deter `motorheads' from racing
Jun. 15, 2006. 05:11 PM
CANADIAN PRESS

MARKHAM — The Ontario government crushed two tricked-out Hondas into a heap of scrap metal Thursday as part of an effort by Attorney General Michael Bryant to discourage ``motorheads" from racing on public streets.

The spectacle, performed in front of a horde of television cameras in this sprawling suburb just north of Toronto, came on the same day the federal government introduced new legislation to criminalize the increasingly popular activity.

"We are taking away these hot wheels from the people who use them forever," Bryant said as he presided over the theatrics, which featured a massive front-end loader crushing the cars on the driveway of a Markham paving company.

And Thursday's exhibition was just the start, Bryant said.

"We're not just going to take your keys away for a few weeks," he said. "We are going to take your precious vehicles from you."

Used in races in 2003 and 2004, the province took possession of the cars under the Civil Remedies Act, a law passed last December which allows police to seize property used in illegal activities.

The pair are the first street racing cars to be destroyed under that law, but Bryant said he expects more will meet the same fate.

The modified vehicles had been gutted — including the removal of the back seats and interior panels — to make them run faster.

One, a 1995 blue Honda Civic, was taken after an officer caught a 23-year-old man racing at a over 180 km/hr on a Markham street. The vehicle, outfitted with a TV screen and video game console on the dashboard, was registered to the racer's mother.

Street racing has killed 34 people in the Greater Toronto Area since 1999, including a couple who stumbled upon a race on Toronto's central Yonge St. when returning from their 17th wedding anniversary celebration.

Police said officers are reporting a rise in the number of races. Scarier still, the practice has moved from little-used back roads onto busy highways, said Sgt. David Mitchell, an internationally recognized leader in drag racing policing.

"Society has become more 24-hour-oriented," Mitchell said. ``There's always someone out on that roadway."

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...=1150367949391

Ghostbat · 06-19-2006, 10:08 AM

Just Brilliant!

5vz-fe · 06-19-2006, 10:12 AM

Awesome, never felt better!! They should also force the kid to witness that LOL

dingo · 06-19-2006, 10:19 AM

They took out the back seats and interior panels to reduce weight, then they added a TV and games console - they're smart I tell you!!!

I hope this applies only to street racing, and not anyone caught doing 180kmh (i.e. on their own on a country road).

blinkmeat · 06-19-2006, 10:27 AM

Saw it on tv - it pretty funny and rightfully so - Street racing has to stop.

They need to build a track or two around here

dutchmasterflex · 06-19-2006, 10:42 AM

^^ And every where else for that matter!

racer_f50 · 06-19-2006, 12:37 PM

that's fucking awesome

it's kinda like Canada is taking lessons from southwest-Asia/northern-African countries, where some of them will cut off your hand for stealing. very similar idea here, and it really might work out. i'd bet this new law will really be a good deterent to street racing, not many of those idiot ricers will want to lose their rides.

DeMoN · 06-19-2006, 01:59 PM

two thumbs up.

RC45 · 06-19-2006, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by bmuller

I don't like ricers just as much as the next guy on JW, but I think it's wrong to just take away people's cars and destroy them. I mean, people driving drunk kill an exponentially larger number of people than street racing does every year, and yet they don't get their cars permanently confiscated. Plus, drunk drivers can be back on the road and driving in as little as 2 months after the offense if they get an occupational license. I'm not sure which one, but this definitely seems like it violates some kind of civil property right.

Thank you for a common sense approach.

This is close to the dumbest thing witnessed.

Are they going to crush some hockey players $400,000 car when he gets caught "street racing".

The only reason they go afetr these "ricers" as agressively as this is that they are not the powerful or rich lobbyists who can impact the polictal futures of the idiots who came up with this idea.

In fact - these ricer races represent everything the "racisist elite" in canada despise

ARMAN · 06-19-2006, 02:26 PM

"We are taking away these hot wheels from the people who use them forever," Bryant said as he presided over the theatrics, which featured a massive front-end loader crushing the cars on the driveway of a Markham paving company.

its just a show, elections soon?

SFDMALEX · 06-19-2006, 02:37 PM

Fucking Canada haters all around here I see

RC45 · 06-19-2006, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by SFDMALEX

Fucking Canada haters all around here I see

Damn straight - it's outof control... what's next??? Free Healthcare??!!!1@!!!!11 aaayyyyyyeee..

evoWalo · 06-19-2006, 03:11 PM

Really wish there was a law against "carbage" as well.

Max Power · 06-19-2006, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by RC45

Originally Posted by SFDMALEX

Fucking Canada haters all around here I see

Damn straight - it's outof control... what's next??? Free Healthcare??!!!1@!!!!11 aaayyyyyyeee..

next our PM is going to anounce that 'get fooled once shame on me...fool me twice...and uhh duhh....well you can't get fooled again'... and seek war with Greenland...

crazidude · 06-19-2006, 10:42 PM

I haven't been following the news recently, but didn't they propose to increase the maximum jail time to a life sentence for street racing?