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[caleb56]

Can you believe this a street racing bust at military street, racers arrested
6/21/2004 5:35 PM
By: Michele Lockhart



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Police arrest racers

A group of nine street racers were taken into police custody after a tip led police to a race early Monday morning.







Officials said nine street racers were arrested Monday after an early morning tip led police to a race.

About 20 cars were spotted on Interstate 37, near Hot Wells, blocking off traffic — that's when the tip was called to police.

Shortly after, police made the arrests and impounded vehicles.

Officials said five of the people arrested are facing charges of obstructing a highway and four others were charged with not driving the posted speed, that charge could bring a fine of up to $2,000 and up to 180 days behind bars.

"There was one woman who was visibly shaken and told police that she feared for her life, she didn’t know that because she was being forced to slow down, whether or not she was going to be carjacked," San Antonio Police Department spokesperson Sandy Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez also said at least one of the cars had nitrous gas, which acts as an accelerant.

"It speeds-up the vehicle to make you go even faster," she said.

Police are looking for other drivers who were involved in the race, but got away. They hope this case will be the last they see for a while.



Give your oppinions on the operations planned to stop street racing.

[91300zxtt]

ok.

[caleb56]

Well i give a f*and hopefully everyone on this forum does because street racing is what this forum is about, and this will have an effect on every street racer out there.

[91300zxtt]

this happens all the time man, not like this is the first time. races get broken up all the time, part of the rish you take when you street race. every racer knows this nothing new. plus they are dumbasses for blocking off an interstate.

btw how is this goin to affect me, you said this will affect everyone. i live in chicago wont affect me at all

[caleb56]

Cops get ideas from everywhere and if this ends up working on military they will use this style elsewhere, and this does not happen all the time only once in a long while.

[91300zxtt]

ok im sorry you know all about what happens out here. you know people dont get busted for racing all the time in chicago because cops only bust people once in a while. do you street race at all man? im guessing not

[CassiesMan]

Ummm...I didnt read anything about the military...anyways, this is why you build a car faster than a squad car....anyways, one of the racers shoulda run...he had NAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWZ

[68chevelle]

umm, people not getting busted alot? thats funny i was thinking it was more like 91300zxtt was saying. its happens alot. want to see what its like here in sothern cali? well here ya go. read up son. http://www.lacr.net/news.htm
ontario happens to be about 10 miles north of me, so what your post was about will not effect me because those police probably learned it from the cops out here. and by the way, aside from the title, that took some guessing to figure out what it was saposed to say, where does it say anything about it having to do with military personel?

[CassiesMan]

Thats the best thing about being in Dallas/Ft. Worth...not many racers, so cops arent on the look out to much. And most of the cars that do race are Domestic, so the imports are usually left alone.

[91300zxtt]

i have no idea about military either, maybe he meant by a military base or military tactic or something, but i have no clue

[caleb56]

Military is a street in San Antonio where people go cruising and racing. Its a hot spot for racing as is Nacogdoches. Look again at my post i mentioned military street once(I apologize for the confusion but was hoping you would use your imagination after all its street racing). Street races do get busted on but stings are not as common in San Antonio. I believe there getting seriously fed up with people dying as a result of street racing. If your going to street race dont do it in big numbers, because it will just tip the cops off and go to different spots to race. If these people would have taken this race to some other part of town this would not have happened, or atleast would have been less likely.

[jonnyboy9012]

I can understand a good street race, but seriously who in the hell blocks off traffic to do a race and then lets cars pile up behind them and continue on racing. The kids have seen the fast and the furious to many times.

[caleb56]

Originally Posted by jonnyboy9012

I can understand a good street race, but seriously who in the hell blocks off traffic to do a race and then lets cars pile up behind them and continue on racing. The kids have seen the fast and the furious to many times.

I totally agree with you, look at all the cars maybe im being predjudice but most were imports. I guess they thought blocking off traffic would reduce the risk of crashes, but i bet they never expected to get arrested.

[68chevelle]

umm yeah about that, was there saposed to be a vidoe with that? cuz i cant find a link on your post if there was.

I can understand a good street race, but seriously who in the hell blocks off traffic to do a race and then lets cars pile up behind them and continue on racing. The kids have seen the fast and the furious to many times.

actauly, i remember one time a couple years ago that i was watching the news. i was watching something about a motorcycle club, (the rough rider). they are a real club. it was back when the 3 wheel bike thing called the stinger or whatever it is first came out, the one in the movie biker boys if any of you have seen it, that the one guy rides in when he gets cripled. anyway the story was done here in socal about bikes doing all kinda of stunts on the streets. and one part of it was that a bunch of the bikes had ligned up next to eachother just like the cops do witha rolling road block and slowed traffic on a mazor freeway down to a stop. and the news crew was in there van just ahead of the bikes and trafic and the stinger thign or wahtever was doing burnouts and stuff right there on teh freeway with the trafic stoped 30 yeards behind him. anyway that post was mostly pointless but it really does happen.

[lamehonda]

When the cops catch street racers, they should confiscate all of their mods. They should be able to earn their mods back by picking up garbage on the side of the road.