Hahaha its the JERKS with the loud exhaust giving the mounties more hassle than necessary! Let's get it right here. Take that loud a$$ POS out of the residential/populated areas if you want to get on the go pedal. I swear there is zero common sense left anymore. I am not even considered old and crabby yet....well wifes vote doesn't count, and I love a good sounding exhaust. But I am absolutely sick of the excessive speed and noise in town at EVERY hour of the day and night. Have some respect people and keep a positive light shining on our hobby/love as viewed by others not in the culture. Around here its mostly the young punks with their jacked up diesel, fuel tuners and straight pipes. Complete a$$hats and WAY more tickets need to be written and maybe even some of those made to be returned completely to stock....wasting 5 to 10 grand on mods and then having to lose it all sure makes u wish you would have had a little more common sense and restraint on the noise/stunting. Keep in mind alot of the members are gearheads as well. But if you are being harrased by law enforcement for vehicle infractions....get your stuff together and figure out what you did to get noticed and what you could have done different!
Really it is getting worse? As long as I can remember, and as long as there have been hot-rods and muscle cars, there have been loud cars/trucks. There has also been kids tearing around causing chaos as-long-as I can remember too, I grew up with lots of them. My older cousins, a generation before, all owned muscle cars and slammed pick-up trucks with V8's. The difference now is the local populations are are growing, and we live in a ever increasing granny state (disagree with that?). Cops used to come and scold us all the time for doing burnouts in
empty parking lots, but hey, we were not drunk, and we were not criminals. All we got was just a scolding, and them sending us on our way. The difference nowadays is every kid is a criminal
if they so much as fart in the wrong place.
I mainly only disagree with your approach. People should watch their speed, in town, and around housing. There is always a bad apple, so simply ticket the hell out of that apple, and leave the rest of us alone. As you stated, many of us on here are gear heads, and we love our cars. I guarantee you that a crack down, and cops actually
LOOKING for loud cars will affect way to many of us, not just hooligans. Imagine all the show cars and hot-rods, and bikes that would be affected from a crack down. By law no one can have bigger exhaust size than stock, that includes cat-backs
and even just tips. People who do not deserve punishment at all will get caught in the mix, just due to one mistake, one road block, or just in the wrong place with the wrong angry cop with something to prove...as he is giving a standard speeding ticket. What needs to be realized is, if a true enforcement is passed, they will be looking all the time, and that will suck for the whole community period.
As a side note: It is funny how people hate the loud vehicles, I personally try and guess what drove by when I hear it...guess, just call me an
automobilesexual?
