claiming "this is our culture, this is who we are" is about the most ignorant statement i've ever read.
its the same mentality and mindset that people have to justify street racing or speeding or wreckless driving.
driving is a priviledge and there seems to be a lot of people in oakland who dont deserve t have a car or a license. their licenses should be revoked, PERMANENTLY. their cars should be confiscated and sold OR simply crushed. that might mean that muscle cars like chevelles might be destroyed but i cant help that, serious measures need to be taken.
if they dont have enough cops they should get more. they shouldnt be afraid or hesitant to take this problem on hard and fast.
as a car enthusiast things like this sickens me. it gives car enthusiasts a bad name. i know in my own city there is street racing on friday nights downtown and a couple nights before derby day broadway turns into a parking lot at night. people come from all over the country literally to clog up the streets drink alcohol do a bunch of illegal crap and trash downtown.
this idiot running sydeshows should be behind bars for life, he's encouraging behavior that leads to other illegal activities and endangers the lifes of the public in general.
what this is is simply outright savagery. there is no other word that i can think of that matches the behavior. did anyone read the definition to ghostin? crashing a stolen car into another car home or business? am i the only person that views this is purely savage behavior? there is no sport to that and has nothing sporting about it. they are finding excuses to act like complete savages.
these people are using vehicles as weapons. these people should be behind bars for at least a decade, they should be forced to pay restitution and never ba allowed to drive again.
wouldnt it just be easier to turn oakland into a glass parking lot and be rid of this nonsense? people like this ruin a city and then complain when their city cant rebuild or are very slow to rebuild. its weird they'll dump thousands of dollars into having "bling bling" wheels, costing sometimes 5 grand or more and then do things that destroy other people's propertyand if you did it to them, they'd be mad as hell and would probably shoot you before calling the cops.
someone else suggested cops coming in with automatic wepaons fire. doesnt sound like a bad idea to me. i'd consider it a thinning of the herd and i wouldnt lose a minute of sleep over it. these are the dregs of society and thanks to hollywood with the fast and furious movies, acting like a retard in a car is now hip cool and the in thing to do. they have this highschool mentality about this, doing this makes you accepted...wow if thats the most important thing in their lives is to be "accepted" by fellow felons, maybe they dont deserve to breath my oxygen.