Police VS Petrol heads

For years police have been breathing down the necks of petrol heads accusing us of illegal street racing, illegal gatherings and disturbing the peace. Car groups cannot even hook up these days or have innocent well organized park offs without the police (metro) rocking up and dismantling the group.

Wednesday 29 February 2012 was the perfect example. A mass park off was held at N1 City. There were over 500 cars present untill Metro police turned up blocking all entrances/exits to the premises. ALL the cars were stopped and checked for modifications which included ride height, head and spotlights, window filim, engines as well as other things. What started off as an innocent night for car owners to show off their rides ended as once of the biggest stigs the city has seen with hundreds of drivers being fined, some cars having their license disks removed. Most of the cars present were cars only used for show and shines and arent even driven on a regular basis.

 Over the past few months many drivers have been assaulted and mistreated by police and accused of racing. Fast and Furious in gatesville is a well known spot for hook ups on saturday nights. Recently a young man was assaulted by Metro police officers because he was standing next to a car police suspected of racing. No racing even took place that night.

Police spend too much time concerning themselves with car owners when they should be worrying about real problems such as the increasing crime rate. They respond much faster when they receive a phone call about a race taking place (and the pull up with 5 cars) than what they do when someone is in your house or there is a gang shootout infront of your house. Police should try doing their jobs for a change instead of only responding to calls where they cant get hurt.