Road racers beware

[diffbuster]

I know we all like to give it some stick on our own private roads but a friend of mine has just been banned for a year for illegal road racing due to the fact that two of strathclydes finest were not entirely truthful.Driving on an empty road in the middle of the night they were spotted at a distance with no video evidence or otherwise it has certainly made me think twice about how i drive.the other party comes on here so i hope you get the judge in a better mood when you go back up.good luck.

[westtra]

If they lied that just shows what a joke our justice system is. Was your mate with any other cars or just on his own?

[andy]

I think the lack of responses shows the opinion of the SIDC Community - "Road Racers Beware" is not in fitting with the Club or it's members. Roads are not for racing and very few members on here, if any, would condone it.

They might just have been playing cat and mouse - couple of Scoobs on a hard drive and having a bit of fun that might have been misinterpreted as racing by the boys in blue, but from your topic title they were deliberately racing and, as such, bringing a bad reputation to us all. In my opinion, if that's what they were up to, then they got justifiably busted.

[scooby doom]

Andy is absolutely right, if they were at it
then there's no excuse, even if they felt they were on a quiet piece of road
with no 3rd parties about.  That said I would never condone dishonesty
amongst colleagues and would be the first to advise anyone to complain if they
felt that was how they were treated.  I regularly get a bit p*$$*d off
having to try to explain or otherwise justify why a colleague did or said
something just because the recipient doesn't understand or agree with it. 
Basically, 'you pays ya money ya takes ya chance' applies.  Engaging in
'spirited' driving then complaining when caught smacks of hypocrisy.  On
the other hand if a genuine misinterpretation (or otherwise) takes place then
you have the right to argue your point and have the case proven against you.
 What I've an issue with is the attitude of say a driver who knows the speed
limit, chooses to deliberately speed, gets caught fair and square and then has
the audacity to make pitiful pleas of, 'what slight of hand can I pull to get
off with this.'  The same principle applies to people who know they aren't
allowed to vandalise your Scoob, it doesn't mean they're right key along the
side of it just cos they've had a beer and don't agree with it.

Of course in addition to the endless debate
of good cop, bad cop, there is the good Scoob driver, bad Scoob driver. 
Picture the scene....  Very recently  I was working one evening when
I have a report of a car traveling at speed through a town centre area.  The
report continues that the offending car has now left the road and smashed into
'street furniture' demolishing same.  The culprit has then taken off at
speed and further reports come in of the car making dangerous overtakes as he
tries to flea the area.  You can imagine my thoughts when the next message
I get is to look out for the offending car - a Subaru Impreza with large boot
spoiler.  Talk about letting the side down, just the kind of thing to keep
pushing our Ins premiums up and giving the community a bad rep.  However, this is one case where I'm pleased
to say that the driver was caught in his damaged Scoob a short time later and
will face the Sheriff soon.

[wrxmania]

Good response [H]

[scoobaroo]

A fair cop, is a fair cop in my book.

Marty. 

[boris b]

Well said mate from someone on your side.

Ki

[diffbuster]

I am not in a position to comment on the actions of others, two vehicles admitedly traveling at excess speed one behind the other  like you say you takes your chances if the parties concerned want to say more about it  they can like i said one is a member i simply posted as a warning to anyone else to think about it before they possibly put themselves in the same position and leave themselves open to the same consequences.

[Alan-G]

Sorry for posting here - well really I am not, but my view (having a young family) is that any powerfull car, not even powerfull, ones, are killing machines.

Cat and mouse is playing dodgems with other peoples lives. I think a lot get away with this game, but it eventually ends up in death.

[scouk]

I must admit, I share the comments above.

 

From the very point when I first wanted to own an impreza I made a decision to go and do an Advanced Driving course first. Knowing full well how powerful these cars are.  Not to mention young driver in powerful car usually means racing around showing off..  But not for me.. Never raced anyone, no intentions of it and never deliberately going well beyond the speed limits.

I'm all for drivers enjoying themselves on the road but there are rules to abide by.. Those rules are not to dull down the experience but rather to keep us safe either from ourselves or more importantly other drivers.  Sure you may be the safest driver on the road but say you are driving home one night on a B road at a safe speed only to turn the corner and find a couple of corsa's racing side by side on the road at 90mph heading straight towards your precious scooby!!! Personally I don't see the fun in that...

Thankfully it's stopped now but I live prety much in the middle of knowwhere at the end of what is nearly a 1 mile straight section of B-Road and for a few weeks late on at night there would be "young dude's" pulling up at the gate, turning round, lining up and havign a race down the road screaming their pistons out of their cylinders.  Do I think this is cool No!  Infact I was just waiting for an accident so I knew when to dial for the emergency services... 

U wanna race?  Find a race track... Sadly that's something we are lacking here in the north of scotland *sigh*  possibly one of the contributing reasons as to why there's so many young driver being killed around here!

 

Ok I've had my say.. Rant over...[]

 

[Gumball]

all to easy to get caught up in the fast driving scenario with other people but the bottom line is that its dangerous and shouldnt be done. The police are going to brand it as racing when in reality it might just be (in my personal experience) driving fast in convoy rather than racing.

Its a silly game and could end up in more hot water than just the law if it all goes wrong.

[scooby doom]

Its a silly game and could end up in more hot water than just the law if it all goes wrong.

Absolutely, take it from me when you've been at the scene, pulled the 'bits'  [+o(] out of the wrecks and then had to go to their nearest and dearest to tell them what's happened, as I have [][:'(], you do tend to adopt a slightly biased opinion.