In Ontario California they are crushing cars invovled in street racing, or suspected of being invovled in it. I find this disturbing, more so because they are also making some of the convicted watch their cars get crushed, on top of the other fines and jail time they are slapped with. I think its cruel and unussual punishment. They are even impounding cars that look like they have been modified. But oddly enough it seems they have only impounded imports and compacts. No real muscle cars or big blocks. I am going to call the city hall there sometime this week and ask some questions about this. As it stands right now I think I only have half the picture. But the half have doesnt look good for the other half.

Seeing I am on a rant about things invovling modified cars. I find it odd that it seems... no not the word I am looking for, IS that cops always pull over modified import cars before they even bat an eye at a domestic. I mean drive by a cop at the speed limit in a gear lower than normal with your exhaust not a bit louder than normal, and I am sure he will follow you if not stop you for something stupid. This is multiplied if your vehicle is modified with a exhaust, rims, wings, body kits, or any thing that makes it different. From my experiances I have seen cops pull over cars for illegal exhaust, or sitting to low aka- illegal modified suspension (headlights sit lower than 22"), to your car looks like a car invovled in a street race. Yet the police avoid pulling over Harley Davidson Bikes for loud exhaust, and I cant tell you how many times I have been deefend by a Harley sitting at a light next to me just "harley-harley-harley" away. Or having a lifted truck with a 12" lift roll by with flags hanging from poles in the back of the bed of the truck and 33" super swamper tires kicking rocks the size of Getro Metros at cars as the chug by. Did you know there are laws against that modification too, a vehicle cannot sit higher than so many inches at the headlamps from the ground. It seems the police choose to ignore this law too because they all are rednecks too (regaurdless of their race)?

I think it shouldnt be illegal to lower your vehicle, after all you wont hurt someone else if you hit them in your car. You will only hurt yourself. But if I were rolling down the road in my 8" lifted F350 Super Duty with a bald eagle in the rear window, and my rebel flag hanging from a pole in the bed and a pair of giant brass balls hanging from the lowered trailer hitch, with the 33" super swamper tires. Happen to hit the same car (say a stock Minivan) I would kill everyone inside because my front bumper is sitting at window level, not at any part of the vehicle that is designed to take a impact. So I would be thinking, that, that would be attempted manslaughter to drive a lifted vehicle on the street, and driving a lowered vehicle would be attempted sucide. Hmm.... I think I could deal with the loss of a friend because he killed him/herself in their vehicle that they built and loved, because they hit another vehicle, then dealing with a friend who went to jail for killing a family of 4 on their way home from the movies because my truck avoided all of the safety systems in that vehicle by just going over them.

I am interested to hear what you all think about all this?
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i find your spelling disturbing. And with an 8" lift you'll need some bigger tires than 33's also. I wouldn't go smaller than 38's.

 

This is so fucking played out. Go choke on a fucking stick.