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Wildfire532FB
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http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/23/2302.asp
California: Police Raid Car Enthusiast Gathering, Generate Revenue
Police raid Riverside, California parking lot to issue modified car tickets at local car enthusiast gathering.
Parking lot raidUsing $503,000 in federal and state gas tax revenue to pay for overtime, nine police agencies in Riverside, California sent more than one hundred police officers to surround a gathering of automotive enthusiasts. Owners of imported sport compact cars had gathered at the Canyon Crossing shopping center on Friday night to swap stories, talk about their passion for cars and show off the latest enhancements to their rides. At around 11pm police surprised participants by blocking all exits with fifty police cruisers. Officers then began a warrantless search and interrogation operation of the 150 vehicles that were present.
"If you're not into street racing, why would you need that?" Riverside Police Traffic Sergeant Skip Showalter asked an enthusiast during a similar crackdown last year. "Why would you want more power going to your car?"
Police issued a total of forty-eight tickets for "engine modifications" with police accusing the owners of the parked vehicles of being street racers. Another fifty tickets were issued for paperwork violations, dark window tinting and lack of a front license plate. The most revenue, however, will be generated from the fees imposed on twenty vehicles that were confiscated. Despite labeling the parking lot raid as taking place at a "street racing venue," Riverside Police offered no evidence that any street racing actually took place.
Across the state, gas tax funds are regularly used to fund similar crackdowns that generate big revenue. In 2004, the California Highway Patrol issued a total of 101,553 "modified car" citations worth $10.5 million according to CHP data obtained by TheNewspaper.
Other law enforcement agencies participating in Friday night's raid included the California Highway Patrol, Riverside County Sheriff's Department, and police from Baldwin Park, Fontana, Irwindale, Moreno Valley, Ontario and Mount San Jacinto Community College.
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FORDFANATIC916
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thats bull shit! something similar happend here in sac, highway patrol was sitting outside sac-raceway and were pulling over anybody that "looked" modified.
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BS ![[Mad]](mad.gif) ![[BS flag]](graemlins/bs_flag.gif) OUR goverment hard at work with OUR tax money from car parts and our wages!
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Blind
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I heard from other sources that the ricers in that lot were doing burn outs / 'drifting' in the fucking parking lot, and neighbors in the area kept calling the cops on them.
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Jdub07
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Originally posted by Blind:
I heard from other sources that the ricers in that lot were doing burn outs / 'drifting' in the fucking parking lot, and neighbors in the area kept calling the cops on them.
I heard they were fuckin off as well and who the hell has a "carshow" at 11:30PM??
This is why we ask NO BURNOUTS at the anual cafords carshows.
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Wildfire532FB
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Originally posted by Jdub07:
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Originally posted by Blind:
I heard from other sources that the ricers in that lot were doing burn outs / 'drifting' in the fucking parking lot, and neighbors in the area kept calling the cops on them.
I heard they were fuckin off as well and who the hell has a "carshow" at 11:30PM??
This is why we ask NO BURNOUTS at the anual cafords carshows.
if thats true then those idiots got what they deserved.
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Originally posted by Jdub07:
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Originally posted by Blind:
I heard from other sources that the ricers in that lot were doing burn outs / 'drifting' in the fucking parking lot, and neighbors in the area kept calling the cops on them.
I heard they were fuckin off as well and who the hell has a "carshow" at 11:30PM??
This is why we ask NO BURNOUTS at the anual cafords carshows.
excuse me while I pull my foot from my mouth, 11.30pm they got what they had comin then. Most people are asleep by then.
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You know this country is going down hill very very very fast. Don't even get me started on any of the hundreds of topics we could discuss about how wasteful we are with our tax dollars. In the beginning of the article it said something about why would you put something on your car to make it faster if your not gonna street race. Well why don't you pop the hoods of some of the officers private mustangs, corvettes or camaros and ask them the same question. Excuse me....but fuck off you rediculously wasteful fuckers and do something useful with OUR tax money and appreciate that it's OUR money that got you into those positions ![[Whoo Whooooo!]](graemlins/woowoo.gif)
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Originally posted by 9cobra7:
You know this country is going down hill very very very fast. Don't even get me started on any of the hundreds of topics we could discuss about how wasteful we are with our tax dollars. In the beginning of the article it said something about why would you put something on your car to make it faster if your not gonna street race. Well why don't you pop the hoods of some of the officers private mustangs, corvettes or camaros and ask them the same question. Excuse me....but fuck off you rediculously wasteful fuckers and do something useful with OUR tax money and appreciate that it's OUR money that got you into those positions
You should demand your $8 back
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Exactly smart ass, Now your gettin it!! $8,16,24,32,40,48........$1,600,596. I hope you understand the math here.
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Every car meet that I have gone to where the cops have shown up, and people were acting civilized the cops just cruise through and leave.
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BLK35th
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there has to have been some kinda probable cause for the cops, if they didnt i guess if the ricers are smart enough they could go to court, and risk loosing. how can ricers do donuts with 5 hp though??? i dont get it!!
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9cobra7
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lol. It really used to be that way with these ricers but things have changed and some of those damn cars are packin some high HP these days. I hear what your sayin though
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Originally posted by Jdub07:
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Originally posted by Blind:
I heard from other sources that the ricers in that lot were doing burn outs / 'drifting' in the fucking parking lot, and neighbors in the area kept calling the cops on them.
I heard they were fuckin off as well and who the hell has a "carshow" at 11:30PM??
This is why we ask NO BURNOUTS at the anual cafords carshows.
100% accurate.
I used to go out there..
Luckily I missed last week...
If the idiots wouldn't have fucked off so much, there woudn'n have been a problem.
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Originally posted by 9cobra7:
Well why don't you pop the hoods of some of the officers private mustangs, corvettes or camaros and ask them the same question. Excuse me....but fuck off you rediculously wasteful fuckers and do something useful with OUR tax money and appreciate that it's OUR money that got you into those positions
Very good point given. EVERYONE modifies their cars. I have met cops who confessed doing 140+ mph after bars since who the fuck is going to pull them over? A buddy of theirs?
I don't know how some of these ticket violations even get approved. Don't get me started on "breaking traction" or "23130(a) Operating vehicle in excess of specified noise limits"...
Some of the tickets cops give to hard-working car enthusiasts are straight bullshit.
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Yep you understand that too. By the way, nice TOOl symbol. I saw them 7 times this last tour. INCREDIBLE! ![[dance]](graemlins/dance.gif)
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