LOSER!!!!!

Piablo, honestly you’re really boring. Peddle the rhetoric elsewhere.

Clifton Hill is actually fun. I’m sure Impulsive can attest to that. The question is, does Impulsive frequent Mints, or Peppermints? I haven’t been there in some time. But I tell ya, Niagara On the Lake is also very fun in January during the ice wine festival. Trius Red is one of the best wines I’ve had period. If you haven’t visited one of the ten natural wonders of the world, I suggest you take time out from your next college degree and go visit the Falls.

Sadly, I never did a thesis on engine mechanics, although I sense by your written tone that you would fist your bell-end furiously over that one if you had the chance.

One last thing Piablo – I asked around the metropolis I reside in, and no one really knows where Clifton Hill is, or even heard of it. You know, besides newly wed muslims and geezers on welfare, I don’t know too many people that visit Niagar Falls. I guess that’s more your destination, right? LOL!

Never heard of Clifton Hill? Hmm. Don’t worry, I didn’t think you would. Catch ya later Doc.

It’s all fine and dandy to watch a kid’s car get confiscated because some of you don’t care for rich asians or yo boys with their pimped out rides. But someday, the bully will come after you as well, and I think you’ll change your tune.

For example, the Nurburgring is a public toll road. And, to the best of my knowledge nothing like that exists.

Because I don’t know what the situation is like in Ontario, but I know in my neck of the woods, which is Edmonton (a metro area of roughly one million) the only track, which is just a dragstrip, is probably about 40-60 minutes from city centre.

And, for the record, I’m not a street racer.

When I was referring to the exhaust I was referring more to the previous article where the Attorney General said the police had the power to seize and crush modified cars.

And, I’m not sure if you’re Canadian or not, but in the case that you’re not I should explain that the problem with this new law is not really something that’s specific to a street racing problem in Ontario but rather a problem with the justice system in Canada. Simply put, for whatever reason a lot of the laws that are on the books are not being effectively enforced. A good example, and unrelated to street racing, would be the Mayerthorpe Incident, where James Roszko shot and killed 4 RCMP officers with an illegal assault weapon. This man had a violent criminal history including 36 charges and 12 convictions. Now why wasn’t this man in jail? Especially since he’s pretty much the poster boy for a “dangerous offender,” which is a classification in Canada that allows a felon to be detained pretty much indefinitely.

Really, this street racing law is more about public relations than anything else. It allows the legislative arm of government to look involved when really this is just another law that’s going to be as ineffective as the ones already on the books. How do I know this, because this law is essentially a duplicate law.

Except for the fact that the new stance on street racing is dependent upon something called the Civil Remedies Act, which allows law enforcement to seize property “acquired through unlawful activity, to prevent property from being used in further unlawful activities” and is not actually dependent on a conviction, which isn’t necessarily a universally bad thing. The proposed interpretation of the law in this instance, however, means the moment a driver is charged with street racing, before he even sees the inside of a courtroom, the police have the power to seize and destroy his vehicle.

Now, I suppose in a society where the court system is somewhat ineffective it makes a lot of sense to implement what is essentially a form of vigilante justice, but that doesn’t make it right.

Maybe Canada should ban all gears in a car beyond 3rd. 4th, 5th and 6th gear are now outlawed! That’ll teach ‘em. In fact, just ban cars all together up there. You guys are pretty chock-full of global warming advocates, you’d be solving 2 problems at once.

Crush them all.

Take your car to the track and die by yourself.

If this is pretty common practice, why on earth is the speed limit still 65-70mph nationally? Cars today are much improved since the 1970’s, when exceeding 70mph in anything but a Ferrari was probably dangerous.

You can call this discussion “intellectualism” all you want. It doesn’t change the fact that people usually drive about 85mph on highways today and yet the speed limits have not been updated to reflect what most drivers would naturally do.

There are some extreme cases of deaths as a result of speeding, yes, but the system in place is far from a perfect governance of driving behavior. Until speed limits are updated to reflect real world driving conditions, I remain a skeptic.

Now, why should any normal person do something so drastic as to modify the engine in their car? Well, myself as an example:

1) I cannot afford a new $30k car that has 300+ horsepower, which is what all of the good examples cost these days.
2) I don’t like the poor handling of the cheapest “fast” cars available — Mustangs and Camaros — so I like to get creative: I like to find a car that handles well and find another engine that produces as much power as I want and put the two together.

Believe it or not, sometimes a Corvette or Miata isn’t a cure-all for everyone. Some of us have odd tastes in automobiles. Is it a crime to want to build a custom car?

All this talk about perceptions, rapists, bald tires and intellectualism is pointless. We might as well discuss politics, rule of law, statistics and psychology but we won’t.

If someone killed a loved one of mine due to speeding (which is the issue at hand), if consequences were no more than a wrist-slap as I believe they are now, I’d kill the person, literally.

respectfully- Davin

If you never had a speeding ticket becuase you never speed then you arent racing, just peeling out. If you never had a speeding ticket becuase you’ve been lucky not to be caught then you are just another stupid kid that thinks he knows it all but really knows nothing. You have never killed anybody, yet. If you are racing on the streets you have just been lucky not to have caused an accident. You cant account for all the other drivers on the street no matter how safe you think you are or how good a driver you think you are. Your comments show how little you know about the world outside your car.

Thank you for proving the point that drivers egos are bigger than their brains and they make the streets unsafe.