Cops turn a 03 Cobra into a undercover police car.
07-23-2010, 04:05 PM
#53
I doubt they got reimbursed for their cars.
In charlotte theres gotta be some type of prior warning for them to take your car. Say X amounts of tickets, X Amount of POINTS on your license, X amounts of visits to court, maybe the judge said "If you get caught street racing one more time (on top of the past X times) then we WILL take your car.
Thats honestly how i think these cars got taken away. does anybody else agree with me?
In charlotte theres gotta be some type of prior warning for them to take your car. Say X amounts of tickets, X Amount of POINTS on your license, X amounts of visits to court, maybe the judge said "If you get caught street racing one more time (on top of the past X times) then we WILL take your car.
Thats honestly how i think these cars got taken away. does anybody else agree with me?
07-23-2010, 04:09 PM
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07-23-2010, 06:56 PM
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I really want to know what "street racing" is according to the police. I highly doubt you will ever get anything but a ticket or maybe like a 90 day license suspension at most from doing a 0-70 with another guy from a red light. Now if you're doing actual fast and furious type ****, then yeah, I wouldn't be offended by them crushing your car.
07-23-2010, 07:21 PM
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Ill probably get flammed with this one. I don't agree with anyone loosing their car over a street race, but it is the law and I know at face value people will call it a stupid law. But say people street racing, regardless of the cars or people driving them, loose control of their car and smash into a 35 year old single mom driving her 6 year old daughter home from school and the mother and or daughter gets killed? or a 8 year old boy runs infront of the street and you're driving to fast to stop intime and hit the child and he dies. The bottom line is someone died, someone lost a child or a child lost a parent or a wife lost a husband, now the law doesn't seem stupid especially for the ones that lost a loved one.
07-24-2010, 08:48 AM
#60
I really want to know what "street racing" is according to the police. I highly doubt you will ever get anything but a ticket or maybe like a 90 day license suspension at most from doing a 0-70 with another guy from a red light. Now if you're doing actual fast and furious type ****, then yeah, I wouldn't be offended by them crushing your car.
Here in Sacramento (might be the rest of CA too, but I do not know) 25 over the speed limit is reckless. This usually involves a person going to jail for the night, the car being impounded, and whatever the judge hands out when you go to court.
Some cities out here will take your car as well. Down in So Cal. they were crushing confiscated street racer's cars.
A DUI here will run you about 10k in fees, fines, court costs, etc... and 30 days (I think) with a suspended license. Not to mention your car ins. sky rockets.
I think I am in the minority here, but if you get caught street racing and your car is confiscated, boo hoo. You knew the risk, and you lost. Take your medicine like a man.