Police arrest dozens at numerous illegal street takeovers in L.A. area
Source: Los Angeles Times
Police arrested three dozen people Thursday night at several illegal street takeovers in and around Los Angeles, including large gatherings in the San Fernando Valley, according to authorities who impounded multiple vehicles.
Roughly 150 people gathered at Roscoe Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon Avenue in the Sun Valley neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Street takeovers often involve a pack of cars blocking an intersection where drivers perform dangerous maneuvers with their cars.
The news station also reports there was a separate street takeover in Compton, where police impounded several vehicles. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately have any information about the incident.
KABC-TV reports there was another takeover in Granada Hills that police responded to just before 11:20 p.m. Nearly 20 cars were impounded and 20 people were cited, while four people were arrested by authorities.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-06/authorities-stop-multiple-street-takeovers-thursday-night-in-sun-valley-compton-granada-hills
They need to start crushing the vehicles involved in these incidents and make the owners watch.
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They are obviously coordinating it on social media and they are all around the country in many cities including here in Philly. From lat October -
Apparently this has been going on for awhile now. There was a broadcast of the syndicated "Inside Edition" series on this 4 years ago (2018 included Philly, NYC, San Francisco and Miami) -
with special tires designed to maximize the effect (including some that even produce colored "smoke" ).
Expensive hobby.
a lowrider hummer with gigantic whitewalls and hoodless engine hanging out. 
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(and City Hall is less than a mile from what we call "The Roundhouse" (Police HQ)).
Before these "events" with cars, most of this stuff has been done with ATVs and then the cops finally started confiscating them.
What happened too was during the pandemic, the streets were generally empty, even during the day, until the past year, and were truly deserted at night (which is when they were out there to get the most "show bang" since they were shooting off fireworks too) so the "events" seemed to pick up in frequency during that time.
has done a lot to spread this ridiculous crap across the country.
Paul Walker, the star of these movies, even died street racing, so you'd think these idiots would learn. Naaaaaaah......let's put each other's lives at risk, spectators included. 
I did my share of drag racing in the 60s and early 70s, but it was always at a race track and always sanctioned by the NHRA. This stuff is just plain stupid.
I know back in the '60s, one of my uncles (my mother's baby brother) owned a share of a NASCAR stock car.
As long as there have been cars, there have been "races". I posted a couple examples in this thread including here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2913468 and here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2913281
and the latter had this "classic" scene (from 1955, 45 years before "Fast and Furious" ) -
The difference nowadays is that the participants and spectators have "cell phones" to "broadcast" it. Many of them actually belong to car clubs including one of the biggest - the Vengeance Auto Club that does modding and detailing, etc - this is the GA one - https://vengeanceracing.net/
They have multiple "shops" around the country and have branded all sorts of things.
This is one of their instagram accounts - https://www.instagram.com/p/BiexqjAgHUQ/?hl=en
Ever since there have been "cars", young drivers have been "street racing" and doing "street stunts".
In the suburban and rural areas, they could go to an old race track or open field to do it but in urban areas, it is done on the streets. Nowadays they can really add all kinds of mods to the vehicles to put on more of a "show".
I suppose it was an evolution from the '90s with the "bouncing lowrider cars".
Ford station wagons ("Country Squire" and its LTD model) that only had lap belts that got jammed into the seat cushion. 
Of course a car that size was like a tank!
You know, it is really important that the media reports on the topic of the protest.
*looks at title of article*
Police arrest dozens at numerous illegal street takeovers in L.A. area
*Dwells on various 'street takeovers' and how they play out for both protesters and law enforcement. Then reads article*
'Street takeovers often involve a pack of cars blocking an intersection where drivers perform dangerous maneuvers with their cars.'
So, they use a term that sounds like gangs of protesting hoodlums are taking over streets in Los Angeles, and then they allow that this is in reference to some teens and just after that age are racing and doing doughnuts? But the MSM is all about 'integrity', right? Not that they are trying to drum up clicks by using terror mongering to facilitate it, right? Just as they keep pushing articles where they are foretelling a complete political slaughter for the Democrats in order to get both Democrat and rethug clicks, they cannot even stop doing to to talk about some drag racers. 
It is our ability to debate without turning it into a 'dick waving' contest that makes this place so special. Without the physical element included in interactions, it is difficult to determine another's intentions and object. Allowing another to explain as opposed to denouncing them for a misunderstood post is what separates us from teen chat rooms. (Sure, we go off on occasion but it is usually due to passion about the topic, not because someone finds being a righteous asshat entertaining. Usually.)
