New Law in FL that sucks a big one--Street race and lose your car

[Automobile Maniac]

As of Oct 1st

Florida Passes Car Confiscation Legislation
Police in Florida can seize cars used in racing without a hearing or due process.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/03/379.asp

[93rollaracer]

Same thing happened in California a while back if I remember correctly.

[mason_RsX]

ouch, thats gotta suck...but honestly, if you get chraged with street racing here they temporarily take your car, you get a gazillion demerit points, and no insurance company will take you , unless you pay HUGE

he he he...Al Bundy...

[Twizted_3KGT]

bs, they can't do that...i'd call bs on Florida if I were you. (they probably can, I only took one law class)

[PWRDbyUNCLEbens]

Holy crap!! did anyone see how many deaths were caused by street racing. Thank god they finally found a fitting way to take care of that tom foolery. Government doesn't have any priorites as far as I'm concerned. doushebags.

I'd like to see how many asshole cops are going to pin people for being over-zealous at the stop light?

[-Jayson-]

in 2001 street racing was the facter in 135 deadily accidents, almost 50,000 poeple where killed in dead accidents in 2001.

Some states are soooo stupid

[soapsuds22]

If the Florida state government really wanted to save lives out on the road they would stop giving 16 year kids full operators licenses. In NJ you have to be 18 before you recieve your license.

[Polygon]

Originally Posted by Twizted_3KGT

bs, they can't do that...i'd call bs on Florida if I were you. (they probably can, I only took one law class)

You're going to call BS on a state?!?!

LOL

Anyhow, if they passed it into law then they can take your car and they will.

[flatlander757]

Doesn't that violate the whole part in the Constitution about a right to a fair trial by jury?

[-Jayson-]

Originally Posted by flatlander757

Doesn't that violate the whole part in the Constitution about a right to a fair trial by jury?

uhh thats why you setup a court date, if you prove yourself not guilty of street racing they will give your car back. Or give the judge a good reason why you need the car so bad, maybe they will be nice.

And they dont take your car away right there and then, they impound it, which is perfectly legal for them to do.

[Musashi3000GT]

dont buy that shit about so many deaths due to street racing. here in Fl if you crash your car and you are 25 or younger they will say you where street racing.

I'll tell you guys a qucik story.

The very first week that 2 Fast 2 Furious came out there was an accident involving 16 year old and a Corvette. the kid had been driving, lost control and crashed against an electrical pole. the wires fell and his car exploded. he was crushed, burnned and killed.
I saw the car and I saw them picking up the pieces, it was horrible.
That night the news was all over it. "16 year old killed in street race , Parents and comunity blame new racing movie"

you guessed it. they blamed 2 fast 2 furious for the kids death.

so a few days go by and I pick up a newspaper. here is the story. the kid had gone out with his friends and watched 2 fast 2 furious and then had all of a sudden realized that street racing is soooo cooool that he had to do it, he had to be Brian, he had to be 2 fast and 2 furious! he went out and lined them up on 8th street. a black honda Civic , a white Mitsubishi Eclipse and his mom's silver Corvette. he had been going 120mph when the eclipse side swipped him and he lost control and crashed and died.

YUP, the kid died because he watched a racing movie. I was like "stupid fuck should of known better" but I knew it was BS cause how the fuck does and Eclipse catch up to a Corvette and 120 and side swipe him???? and why?

well that very night on the news they gave the same story and said that they where looking for a white eclipse believed to be involved in the death. and they pulled 2 fast 2 furious out of some threaters.

it gets better.
my sister works at Baptist Hospital where they did the autopsy. Toxicology reported that his alcohol blood level was 5 times the legal limit. he was fucking drunk!

wait it gets better.
I met the guys who saw him last because my wife is friends with his cousin. my wife and her worked together at bath and beyond.
the kids that had been with him on the last night of his life told me the story. His mom had given her 16 year old son who had no license the keys to her Corvette, he had gone to a party that night for his cousins communion. he got drunk and drove home smashed. whether there was a street race or not they dont know but the point is the news left all this out of the picture.
for all we know dumb fuck ate the pole all by himself with no "racers" to assist him.

the point is you cant believe all those statistics cause most of them are unproven and dismissed as a street race.
"oh he was young? and and it was a sports car, yeah he was street racing"

[CamaroSSBoy346]

im willng to bet that more people are killed in regular non-street racing involved automobile accidents.

just my .02

[CBFryman]

Originally Posted by soapsuds22

If the Florida state government really wanted to save lives out on the road they would stop giving 16 year kids full operators licenses. In NJ you have to be 18 before you recieve your license.

yes...that is why we have a step program...dumbass
15: Learners
16: 11 o'clock curfew
17: 1 o'clock curfew

0 alcohol tolerance and if you get 6points on your license before yo uare 18 you are restricted to business and schoo purposes only untill you are 18.

What FL DOES need to do is start pulling over Women driving Minivans and, worse yet, Suburbans (or similar SUV's) full of kids, talking on the cell phone, putting on lip stick, masterbating, and eating all at the same time that are cutting people off, nearly running off the road, swerving from lane to lane...we all know the drill.

Also, they need to get all of these damn incompetent snow birds and old farts driving thier cadilac car off the road by making them take a driving test at least bi anually once they hit 65-70.

Also, they need to start teaching dumbass teenage/low 20's felmales that the rear view mirror is NOT a vanity mirror... just 2 weeks ago a girl was putting on make up and swerved into oncomming traffic, she is having to have extreme facial reconstruction and the victum is still in IC. now all the make up in the world isnt going to cover up the scars, flat noise and funny shapped cheek bones.

they also need to crack down on drunk driving and idiots pulling stupid shit on the interstate, especially in bad weather...ive been tailgated down 75 going 85mph... and i was in the middle Fing lane.
my dad has been cut off by inches in heavy rain on i-75 going 75.

[CBFryman]

but i can beleive the 2f2f shit...
i remember the night i saw the movie... in the parking lot everyone was revving their engines and trying to peal out and shit...
my friend was driving his dads blown fox body mustang...he spanked so much ass that night...

anyway kids do see shit like that and think they have to do it.

[TheStang00]

yup thank those movies for this law... i swear people believe fucking anything they see or read and the media doesnt give a shit what the truth is as long as it sells. its retarded