Street racing is an illegal sport that is growing popular at an alarming rate. Street racing is the concept of high performance automobliles racing on public roadways illegally. Individuals will take a basic car and tune it up to be very quick and very powerful. The idea of street racing originates from the legal sport of drag racing. Drag racing is an internationally recognized sport governed by the NHRA‚ the National Hot Rod Association. Drag racing consist of two drivers in separate cars
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Judi Lin is 19 year old former street racer. She used to tear up the streets of her hometown until she got torn up herself. "I ’ve been through six cars in the past five years‚" Lin admitted. "Two out of the six were (demolished) in street-racing accidents. Both of them were a total loss. The first one‚ I was street racing a Mustang on a rainy day and I broke my collarbone. On the second one‚ I was at the illegal street races and wasn ’t wearing my seatbelt. My forehead hit the (windshield)‚ and
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Brotherhood of Street Racers-A True Story Created by the Los Angele Police Dept to curb the ever growing street racing problem using street racers to do it. Fight fire with fire. Now the Los Angeles Sheriffs Dept is in charge of opening up Brotherhood Raceway. The Los Angeles Police Deptartment realized that at the street races all genders and ethnic background got along‚ racism was eleminated through wheels‚ hence the brotherhood... IMO:My Two Cents- I am a street racer‚ and have been
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One of the fastest growing sports in the world is racing. Racing in general can consist of many different types such as: Drag Racing‚ NASCAR‚ Indy‚ Motor Cross‚ Truck Rally. The topic of racing that I am chose was street racing. Street racing originated from drag racing on the quarter-mile strip. The concept of drag racing is when two racers in different cars would line up at a white line‚ and in the middle of the two cars would be a light post‚ called the Christmas tree for its red‚ yellow and green
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Illegal Street Racing It would seem that the import car scene is becoming one of the largest trends in the automotive industry since the introduction of the assembly line. Nearly every manufacturer of vehicles has a sport compact car in the market. Teenagers and other young adults are customizing and “souping” these cars up for purposes that no car was intended for‚ illegal street racing. These speed contests on public roads are a danger to anything and everything on the roads‚ including the driver
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the mall or going to the movies like others his age. Jeff joins a group of his comrades and spectators to witness a spectacular show of speed. As we pulled up to the meeting spot he looks over at me and says‚ "Welcome to the world of illegal street racing." "We have a cruising area where all the cars go and just chill. If someone wants to race‚" says Jeff‚ "they just ask...most of our races are with people you know pretty well...we don’t have the major race nights like they have in other areas
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Race the Strip‚ Not the Street. One of the fastest growing worldwide sports right now is racing. There are numerous forms of racing but Street Racing is one that is mainly performed by teenagers. Street racing originated from Drag Racing‚ on a quarter-mile strip. As the sport of street racing began to spread around the early ‘90s‚ people couldn’t really afford to go to a legal track and race‚ and soon enough teens began racing on public streets and highways. Street racing is an adrenaline rush to
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Street Racing‚ Legal or Illegal? When it comes to the topic of street racing‚ most people agree that it is dangerous. While this is true‚ there is a question on whether it should be legal or not. It is becoming a bigger epidemic with more movies like The Fast and the Furious or Need for Speed‚ movies that are based around street racing. In an online article‚ Jack Baruth‚ a former street racer‚ said: “You cannot kill street racing. You can’t even discourage it. Not entirely. As long as young men
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that has to have a lot of experience. Criminology is always thought as the study of criminals but it’s not just that there are a lot more details fields involved with it. Some examples could be criminology scientists who don’t work in the field as cops or detectives but they work in the lab trying to find out who did this crime‚ how this crime happened‚ finding fingerprints and other details to help the cops or
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Illegal Street Racing At least once a week‚ we hear on the news about someone dying as a result of illegal street racing. Sometimes‚ it’s the driver or passenger of the car that is racing who gets killed‚ but often times its innocent bystanders or drivers of other cars who are killed by the reckless teens who engage in a highly dangerous activity. First of all‚ what is illegal street racing‚ think "Fast and the Furious"‚ and second‚ what can be done to stop this from happening or at least reduce
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