Video of the raid

[eps]

This was the night that everybody got a $500 ticket. Turned out in court it is only $396, but oh well!

I'll tell ya what though, I haven't been out there since that night.

http://picklestudios.com/media/sacraid.mpg

[street_racer_00]

Stupid...women are getting beaten and raped and they are spending 5 mil on a sport where all parties involved are consenting and are aware of the risks.

[GForce957]

That helicopter video of the car doing donuts was awesome, showing the infrared glow even

[BullDog71ss]

This happened in Sac huh. I had a g/f that lives in Sac. Everybody there drives like they're in the Indy 500 anyway.

[BLU CIVIC]

sounds like fun....well not the part about the raid and the tickets being issued

[JekylandHyde]

Originally Posted by street_racer_00

Stupid...women are getting beaten and raped and they are spending 5 mil on a sport where all parties involved are consenting and are aware of the risks.

So breaking the law is okay if everyone consents?

How are innocent people on the street "consenting"?

[ridestreet84]

damn thats nuts but i do agree that the car doing donuts under the infra red looks pretty damn sweet

[CBFryman]

5 Million and they could only Charge 2 people with racing?
Congratulations to the Sacramento Police ...fuck tards.

What i think is even more funny is that most of the cars i saw them videoing where Honda's and other assorted rice wagons with chery bomb inserts and intake as their list of performance modifications...then you have the fancy tail lights, body kits, headl ight bulbs, excetera...
and they talked about these cars as if they where more than a bunch of teens pushing their grocery gettters... im not saying there wernt cars that are ctaully fast out there, just stating what i observed.

sucks that you got a ticket... but from the level of intelegence it takes to catch 2 people street racing, they havent made back the money it cost to put that chopper in the air and buy that infrared camera...

[CBFryman]

BTW...Why the hell was grandma doing out getting groceries in her blue-green shit wagon in the middle of the night?

[street_racer_00]

Originally Posted by JekylandHyde

So breaking the law is okay if everyone consents?

How are innocent people on the street "consenting"?

I know you may have some biases since you are a track guy, but are you fucking kidding me? Did you watch the video? Exactly how many people around there were "innocent bystanders"? The guy who killed the innocent person in a collision got his, he's probably serving life in prison: problem solved. I'm talking about where these guys are racing down an empty road in the middle of the night...5 MILLION DOLLARS for that shit? And you wonder why California has no money for education...

[slocar]

Originally Posted by CBFryman

BTW...Why the hell was grandma doing out getting groceries in her blue-green shit wagon in the middle of the night?

Does she not have the right to outside late? What the fuck? And yeah..$100 says she was cruising down the highway at a reasonable hour and some ricer hit her or something. I doubt she was actually a victim of organized street racing.

[JekylandHyde]

street_racer_00 there is no way you can ever gaurantee that innocent people will not happen onto the scene.

I've seen legit organized races that have had an errant innocent car happen into the lanes and get hit.

If those cars are going 100+ you think you can gaurantee that they are not going to hit someone in their house? their business? on another street? ... if they lose control?!

Regardless of how "consenting" everyone is ... regardless of how safe you think you have made it ... it is still ILLEGAL so can anyone complain about getting busted for it?!

As for me being a "track guy" that is because I realized hwo foolish street racing is. I did it when I was young and incredibly niave ... but we have experiences that WAKE US UP and you realize how stupid it was.

I was incredibly LUCKY because my serious episode did not onvolve anyone getting hurt or any bent metal ... but it was bad enough to wake me up to what the hell I was doing.

From a strictly performance/competitive stand point street racing is incredibly stupid because you can never gaurantee a fair leave.

[JekylandHyde]

Originally Posted by street_racer_00

5 MILLION DOLLARS for that shit?

$5 million dollars = $6.77 per person in California

It sounds like a lot of money, but in the scheme of governmental budgets it is a drop in the bucket.

[JekylandHyde]

... they were talking about a $2 BILLION dollar increase in educational spending in California for 04/05 ...

$5 million is less than a 1/4 of one percent of that ... and remember, that is just the increase.
What do you think $5 million would do for education?

[street_racer_00]

Don't try to school me on my own state, I've lived in California for all of my 21 years, you live in middle-america BFE...period. I have no problem with street racing getting busted, that's the price you pay...I DO have a problem with a big chunk of change being spent on something that isn't really a good problem.
P.S. My sister is a public high school english teacher...you wanna try telling her that $5 mil isn't going to make a difference? It may be the difference from class size being cut down from 35 to 30 students...which means there are 5 less students getting absolutely GIPPED when it comes to their education...I pity inner-city kids in the public school system in California, because they are getting a poorer education than ANYWHERE ELSE in the united states.
Back on topic...it's overkill spending that much money to bust street racing rings...people do get killed, and yes, innocent people occaisionally, but it is a RARE occurence...I'm saying that money would be better spent going elsewhere.