Pyroviking

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ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA 9/28/08-- Police from 12 different agencies - including Azusa, Irwindale, Baldwin Park, West Covina and Riverside - cracked down early Sunday on a crowd allegedly gathered for street racing in the Pomona Valley.
The grant-funded task force of officers surprised more than 180 people at 12:45 a.m. today when they converged on the crowd in the 5200 block of East Airport Drive, according to Ontario police Detective Jeff Higbee.
Officers detained and ticketed 184 people for being spectators, and arrested three alleged racers, including one who acted as a flagger to signal race starts, Ontario police Sgt. David McBride said in a phone interview.
An estimated total of 74 vehicles were impounded due to the drivers and passengers being detained and cited, Higbee said.

More than a quarter of those detained and cited were under age 18, Higbee said. A total of 47 youngsters were also cited for being in violation of a 10 p.m. curfew that applies to anyone under age 18 who is out without a parent or legal guardian, Higbee said.
Popular street racing culture and Hollywood interpretations of the lifestyle are founded in part on the reality of illegal street racing in the vast mall parking lots of the Inland Empire and Ontario International Airport. Many participants get thrills from playing cat-and-mouse with police on nights when patrols are light.
But sometimes speed contests in the Ontario area end in deaths, including those of innocents who were not racing, police said.
Funding for the multi-agency crackdown today was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Kevin91Z

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Where did you get this? It looks really familiar, like it was describing a bust that happened a year or so ago.

HCR13

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sucks for them...Glad I don't live in California...or street race...

Pyroviking

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Here's an LA Times article on it and a video from the local news:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...0,601459.story

I can't remember what paper I harvested the OP from.

HeavyMetal350

Haha ... poor little guy didn't get to race his Vtech integra... thing probably isn't worth getting out of pound.

91z 2 8

its vtec lol u spelled it wrong / YEa that dose suck *** glad i dont have to be in by 10am or that i street race

mesterz2889

someone shoulda called scramble when they were all just sittin there on the curb

david068513

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I was just thinking that with all those people they couldn't catch them all ..

Adrian87Camaro

Well at least they were racing in semi empty streets. I think its bs that spectators were arrested/cited though. They need to have actual legitimate drag strips available so people can safely race. Granted it wont stop those doing it just to spite law enforcement. I am guilty of street racing but I always make sure the conditions are right: Empty street, know the area, well lit if I don't know the area, and nobody in my car with me.

1320_Guy

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I agree on the spectator part its bs. Street racing is dumb no matter what the conditions are, anything can happen. If you crashed do you really think he would stick around and get the street racing ticket. I quit street racing years ago when i figured that out.

89RS_82Z

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street riceing (yes i know i said riceing) is dumb, i think its funny, all except for the spectatiors, i would of been one of them just waiting for the cops to come so i could roll over laughing

406z

Dang the police forces vtec must have kicked in...74 impounds...Anyone want to go 50/50 on a wrecker company in california?

iroc22

It's a scary idea getting you car impounded or hurting someone street racing. You definitely have to weigh in the pros and cons of doing such activities.

89RS_82Z

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pros, none

cons, everything

1BADDAM

Should take the millions of dollars cities spend on street racing task forces each year and build some f^cking tracks.

State & local Gov. - always curing the symtom, instead of correcting the root problem. There are what....two 1/8 mile track and one 1/4 track for all of SoCal.

fastfbody

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LMAO . theres the now and again open street stop light to stop light in little to no traffic areas.witch i have no issues with that . then theres the kiddy fast and furious (so called under ground street racing). witch is just a bunch of hot head kids that only been driving for a few months and are trying to be king of the ricers . seeing how that was probably the crowd that got nicked all i can say is ha ha ha .OWNED

Sonymaster20

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well if you think about it, wasnt this how everyone did it in the seventies? lots of 17 year old kids had first gen camaros,barracudas, trans ams, racing on every stop light?

fastfbody

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well that is how they did it someone back then. but u have to consider back then there was only 10% as many cars on the road so. there wasnt really any chance of killing little timmy on the way to soccer practice.

Quasi-Traction

Horrible justification, seeing as how the older muscle cars don't handle near as well as even a stock Civic does.

I don't personally street race myself, because a few years back I did, and got nailed and have paid the price in insurance premiums.

However, I am in agreement with whoever said that there need to be more dragstrips around (especally in southern California with the poplulation being what it is..). you guys have what, LACR, Pomona, and what else?

Then again, the Government and land developers have greater funds, and will ultimately win out.

fastfbody

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what??? i don't support street racing .Im the uber pro track guy.not justifying that it just was allot more of the thing to do back then. now we got tons of tracks and more traffic then we know what to do with.of coarse street racing wrong regardless of time frame. i never street race ill do a nice stop light to stop light witch is hay who can hit the speed limit 1st lol. i mean i got 7 racing videos up on youtube.com not 1 is a street race

Kevin91Z

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Pomona was closed to amatuers in 2000 when the local community complained about the noise from the professionals. The pros remain, but the little guys lost out. It was a lose-lose for everyone.

LACR closed last year when the strip mine next door (who owned the land) decided they needed the land the drag strip was on for its minerals.

Carlsbad closed in 2005 when the development next door (who owned the land) decided they wanted to build more industrial complexes and a road.

We have California Speedway which is 1/4 mile but open less than once a month. We have Famoso in Bakersfield which is open less than once a month. We have Irwindale 1/8 mile open on Thursdays. And we have Barona 1/8 mile open Saturdays.

I think the next closest 1/4 mile is Las Vegas.