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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
I don't think the phrase, "can do so before a race takes place or any charges are laid" means the police are going to go around checking every car to see if it is modified for racing.
What I think the phrase is in there for is so that if the cops show up on some kind of Fast & the Furious style get together where it's pretty obvious that some racing is going on they can destroy all the cars there even the ones that haven't had their turn to race yet. Make it so that even going to some obscure road where street racing is happening can be punished.
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Again that is just as vague. A bunch of cars grouped together "on an obscure road" is now a crime? Ever heard of the right to peaceful association? Even if they are racing, crush the cars that are racing. Other wise it is just an arbitrary decision. There could be 10 cars on a road and only two are actually racing. Ok, so you crush those cars. but out of the other 8, 4 could have modifications that indicate they could street race. So you crush those 4. But the other 4 are in stock condition so you don't crush them? That makes no sense. It would be like going to a boxing fight and arresting the two fighters and all the big guys in the crowd that are "capable of fighting."
I don't buy it. You want to punish people, they have to do something wrong before you can punish them.