Drifting and law enforcement?

[HyperTek]

Did anyone catch this on the news? my friend told me that they said drifting is now the new street racing, getting caught drifting on teh street is automatic jail time and car impound. and anyone watchin goes to jail to. ANyone hear about this??

[Irukandji]

where did you hear this?


for most cases, drifting on the street and wreckless driving in general can get your car impounded.

I doubt people watching will get any jail time... they can just argue "I was walking by and saw it"

[HyperTek]

well my friend saw it on tv news last night.. dunno where, but pretty much its gonna get strick

[FaLKoN240]

Street racing, powersliding, side shows. It all goes under wreckless. If you're dumb enough to do it on the streets and get caught, you deserve it.

[Ricks15]

But people are still going to do it regaurdless so fuck it. Socal needs to build more race tracks for people to go too, and thats BS that there is not space or money.

[CaoBoY]

people dont care about racing cars enough, or else they would build more racetracks. its not a national pasttime, thats why they dont care. besides, you have a few actual racetracks around, and drift days, and scca/autoX all over the place. there's plenty of places to race legally, people are just too cheap/ricers that dont have the money to pay for it.

[HyperTek]

well basically this would cause more random pull overs by cops if your out late at night, cuz they will think you goin drifting or something. Its already bad enough that we get profiled. My friend got pulled over for leaving a bowling alley around 1am and they told him to pop his hood, he wasnt speeding or anything, and his car looks fairly stock. It jus sucks.

[!Zar!]

Well, if your car meets the law requirements, then no worry. If not then it's a risk you pay when you drive a modified car.

Plus if you have bald tires, and it's three or so am...

[crazyikimasho]

Originally Posted by n1sm0r

where did you hear this?


for most cases, drifting on the street and wreckless driving in general can get your car impounded.

I doubt people watching will get any jail time... they can just argue "I was walking by and saw it"

As for just watching, in many states for years now you can be ticketed and possibly losing your license for watching or aiding/abetting street racing. I know for a fact in NC its been like that forever. But yes, like you said drifting, racing, wreckless, its always been similar penalties. You pay to play, thats how it works. Will that keep many of us off the street, no.

There are many sanctioned events growing these days and we should be only drifting/racing these sanctioned events and keep it off the streets. However many people feel that is not enough so they will seek other avenues to practice, etc. Its just gonna turn into a flame war over this. It always does. In an effort to help those interested in sanctioned events Ill give you some sites to check out:

www.justdrift.com
www.driftday.com
www.usdrift.com / www.lookoutdrift.com
www.vegasdrift.com

Im sure there are more I failed to mention but all you have to do is search. If you are in the SoCal area there is an average of about 2 events or more per month.

[HyperTek]

yah good points.. im against street racing and what not becuase it just leads more attention to every modified vehicle.. guess its just come to this point.

I been thinking about the older porsche 911 or 914 or late bmw 3 series as a new project car.. hmmmmm

[evil_tt]

I must say I't has gotten worse and worse over time because of movies like F&F(1-2-3) and the initial D trend. I stopped racing on streets cause it just wasn’t worth that little drift on a corner for a ticket..but it is redicicous to get pullen over just for the car you drive and you know this shit's just going to get worse and worse.

[Maeda]

Fuck.................................

[BOROSUN]

this sucks
mega bummer dude
totally uncool
this is bogus
ultra super bummer...dood
this reeks* (sp)
thats fwakd up to the max
oooh no its murdaah
dat shiet is wack yo
im running out of words to say.

profiled to the max

[cotbu]

Speaking of Law Enforcement and Drifting...

Last month I ask a friend whom is a state boy, If he could get me a few hours on the police driving course. Last friday he pulls me over with flashing lights to tell me, he can get me 4 hours saturday at 10. I invited some friends but told them it might be a setup, so they watched from the fence. I drifted that course hard for an hour and a half. To test the waters before packing up, I left them with 3 360's

It felt good.... but I still think it was a setup.

[crazyikimasho]

Originally Posted by cotbu

Speaking of Law Enforcement and Drifting...

Last friday he pulls me over with flashing lights...

My friends in NC used to do that to me until they put cameras in the patrol cars that came on as soon as you turned the light bar on. Put an end to that real quick.

As for a setup, I dont see how it could be. You're not doing anything illegal you're on a track that you had permission to drive on. It would be different if they were like "hey why don't you go drift those corners over there out on the street and we'll just watch."

[SimpleSexy180]

time to start packing and goto texas.

[evil_tt]

/\-Yeeaaahaw!!

[Toka Motorsports]

thats why i live in st. louis missouri, cops dont know crap about cars, all they are trained to to is look for meth and other drugs and drug dealers!! you can easily get off with speeding or wreckless driving just by using lame excuses as simple as; "my flipflop got stuck under my pedal" or "i though someone was following me." but im sure in the near future they will start cracking down on the tuner scene....un till then....

[mooboy]

Don't forget www.ncda.net

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by mooboy

Don't forget www.ncda.net

Wow, cool. We need one of these in SoCal. (I'm not complaining about driving up there, just not willing to miss 4 days of work a month to drive up and back twice a month since they're on thursdays.)

[fliprayzin240sx]

More reason to sell my car!!!!!!!!!!!!

[!Zar!]

So people are being angered because it's now being stated that it's illegal to be cought drifting?

It was always illegal. The law enforcment it now just making it known to people who thought it was what, legal!?

I'm not going to talk like I'm a parent, so I'll keep it real. IF you are going to "drift" do it at a time and place where people and inanimate objects arn't present. If you are cought then guess what? The only person to be mad at is yourself.

Street drifting was never legal.

[sw20>>s14]

moral of the story: dont be cheap and support your local drift events...

[Ricks15]

California SUCKS

[crazyikimasho]

Originally Posted by Ricks15

California SUCKS

Do you seriously think its that much different anywhere else? Drifiting on the street is not legal in any state, or any country for that matter.

[oridostyle]

Originally Posted by Ricks15

California SUCKS

thats why i registered my car outside of CA.

[speedstar01]

Originally Posted by oridostyle

thats why i registered my car outside of CA.

wait but how would that help, dont you still have to drive in CA?

oh and another question: do you have to get car insurance from the state you registered ur vehicle in?? im just wondering. (the reason i ask is im currently going through a similar situation..)

[breakindrifts]

Those who bitch about not being able to street drift, there's always places to do it without worry of cops or bystanders, but there might be an increase in danger of hitting something.

As far as getting profiled goes, just keep your shit a sleeper and quiet and you wont have problem.

[fliprayzin240sx]

Originally Posted by breakindrifts

Those who bitch about not being able to street drift, there's always places to do it without worry of cops or bystanders, but there might be an increase in danger of hitting something.

As far as getting profiled goes, just keep your shit a sleeper and quiet and you wont have problem.

Itll get to the point that having a sleeper wont mean shiet. You drive a 240, oh you must drift and have a SR20. Cops will have the same mentality that every FFwd loving kiddies have out there.

[Maeda]

It's kind of hard to have a sleeper if the car's set right anyway.

The stance and width give it away too easily. It's not like drag cars where we all can wear stock wheels and pretend not to have 800zillion horsepower. Suspension shows.