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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1307186.html
Of the 5,407 charges issued in North Carolina for "speed competition" between 2002 and 2007, just 8 percent resulted in guilty verdicts on the original charge. Judges granted another 685 prayers-for-judgment-continued, a legal maneuver that lets drivers keep points off their licenses and insurance rates low. About 1,600 charges were reduced to offenses such as reckless driving to endanger, or speeding. About 2,300 charges were dismissed.
 
typical of traffic violations of any kind.

With enough dough you can get out of ANYTHING, from DUI, to speeding, to minor violations. This stake out technique might actually work though.
 
DRIFT- Don't Race In Front of Troopers. :lol: I would have thought that was pretty obvious. Dumb asses stupid enough to do that stuff deserve everything they get. They busted a bunch of them here in Charlotte a couple months ago who were blocking off sections of I-485 to race. How could they expect to NOT get caught doing dumb crap like that?
 
In another car, a pressurized tank of nitrous oxide is rolling around in the back seat. The gas can be injected into an engine at the push of a button and is illegal on street cars in North Carolina.

this was in the article. I didnt know having nitrous on your car was illegal here?
 
jeepn-jason said:
In another car, a pressurized tank of nitrous oxide is rolling around in the back seat. The gas can be injected into an engine at the push of a button and is illegal on street cars in North Carolina.
this was in the article. I didnt know having nitrous on your car was illegal here?
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Yes, having the bottle connected is, you can have the system on the car, and a bottle in the car, but if its hooked up its illegal anywhere but the track
 
Roughshod said:
They busted a bunch of them here in Charlotte a couple months ago who were blocking off sections of I-485 to race. How could they expect to NOT get caught doing dumb crap like that?
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I was pulled in the M3 down in Ballantyne for "window tint" but passed as usual. The cop was cool once he saw my SCCA card and wristband from the trackday I was on my way home from. It turned into a 20 minute conversation about the problem of street racing down there and where to race legally. He apologized for holding me up because I had a "very noticible car" and let me go.

It sucks that you get profiled for stuff like that but honestly I don't mind these cops cracking down on it. There are too many 1/8 mile tracks running "test and tune" nights around NC for this stuff to keep going on.
 
good read. i used to cruise main st. in high point with my friends and have been to a few of those "street races". more like 2 cars would race, someone would yell cop and everyone would scatter. i agree though, that people need to keep it at the track. Piedmont dragstrip is right there in McLeansville and i'm honestly surprised the Raleigh area doesn't have a strip somewhere closer. and i think they just opened up a strip in concord?
 
I remember when there was a big problem in Charlotte a few years ago. The funny thing is that a couple mustang brothers in Charlotte were right in the mix of it. Now they own a shop and are playing with exotics and vipers. How times change!

I never got the appeal of illegal racing when track time is cheap.
 
Roughshod said:
DRIFT- Don't Race In Front of Troopers. :lol: I would have thought that was pretty obvious. Dumb asses stupid enough to do that stuff deserve everything they get.
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That really is about the stupidest name they could come up with...
 
Gmachine said:
I remember when there was a big problem in Charlotte a few years ago. The funny thing is that a couple mustang brothers in Charlotte were right in the mix of it. Now they own a shop and are playing with exotics and vipers. How times change!
I never got the appeal of illegal racing when track time is cheap.
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Wow...that was back in the day...and the cars they build now are just down right nasty.
 
tknopp said:
Yeh but alot of those plea deals came as a result of the defendant having to give his vehicle to the state or local PD. We have some of our traffic officers driving their rides.
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I am sure half of these vehicles have had mods that are illegal in some way or another, so that doesnt make a lot of damn sense
 
The ones with illegal mods are being stripped or used in the stings. The legal ones are recycled as police vehicles.

CMPD is running a 02ish Supercharged Mach 1 and a supercharged and intercooled 350z on 19" Volks.
 
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