How to deal with boy racer?
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dibbers006 said:
Ari said:
NordicCrankShaft said:
Does he have a lawn/garden and and are you ok with frozen sausages?
AAaaaaahh, that's f
king brilliant, funniest thing anyone's ever posted on here! 
Does one have to buy them specially for this purpose?
Sump said:
Translated to old man has a problem with loud exhaust and thinks he is speeding.
It's not that straight forward is it!Yes there are indeed slow cars with noisy exhausts (i've been guilty in the past) but if the kid really is blazing up an down the street then he may well need a few choice words!
Otherwise residents all whine then a bloody speed bump gets built and instead of 1 car every few days making a noise you have to put up with EVERY car making a THUMP THUMP an accelerating in between the bloody humps, then you moan about the increased wear on suspension/tyres etc.
Ari said:
NordicCrankShaft said:
Does he have a lawn/garden and and are you ok with frozen sausages?
AAaaaaahh, that's f
king brilliant, funniest thing anyone's ever posted on here! Which is odd, because the other eleventy billion times it got mentioned it was yawn inducing.
On par with "MX5" now.
I think there's an annoying boy racer in most places.
We live on a quiet country lane which occasionally gets the boy racer treatment when said boy racer turns up to pick up his girlfriend. She's obviously impressed with his ste Punto sporting the obligatory loud exhaust and arm out of the window, seat reclined to the max driving style.
We live on a quiet country lane which occasionally gets the boy racer treatment when said boy racer turns up to pick up his girlfriend. She's obviously impressed with his s
te Punto sporting the obligatory loud exhaust and arm out of the window, seat reclined to the max driving style.Robster said:
Sump said:
Translated to old man has a problem with loud exhaust and thinks he is speeding.
There's always one ! I'm not sure if there is a particular age where us men go from fun loving and young to miserable and old. I'm firmly in the old git camp but I've not yet reached the point of chucking chairs on the road in front of people because they are a bit loud.
Had this a few years ago.
Boy racer type moved on to our very quiet road - he would shoot off at max revs with his stupid exhaust and stereo on as loud as poss at 05:00. I think it was a Corsa or some such.
I had a word with him after the first week of this nonsense. Just sort of muttered back to me and closed the door Second time wouldn't even look me in the eye and just walked off.
I was then coming back from a meeting and stopped to get a few bits and pieces from a supermarket. There is boy racer in full Sainsbury uniform talking with a store manager type, so (being a bit of a git) I went up interrupted them and told him again how unacceptable it was to be disturbing his neighbours with such behaviour etc.
From then onwards we never heard a peep out of him.
Boy racer type moved on to our very quiet road - he would shoot off at max revs with his stupid exhaust and stereo on as loud as poss at 05:00. I think it was a Corsa or some such.
I had a word with him after the first week of this nonsense. Just sort of muttered back to me and closed the door Second time wouldn't even look me in the eye and just walked off.
I was then coming back from a meeting and stopped to get a few bits and pieces from a supermarket. There is boy racer in full Sainsbury uniform talking with a store manager type, so (being a bit of a git) I went up interrupted them and told him again how unacceptable it was to be disturbing his neighbours with such behaviour etc.
From then onwards we never heard a peep out of him.
There is a Focus ST and some kind of bike that do this often going past our house. We have speed bumps but the bikes weaves through them and the ST doesn't bother slowing down. Police not interested but it is a narrow residential road.
They're both so loud that they will wake up my son too. Annoying.
They're both so loud that they will wake up my son too. Annoying.
Once lived on a main road through an estate and was driven nuts by boy racers at all hours belting up and down it - After a few years of putting up with it we moved out of the estate and on the first night in our new house, went to bed only to hear the familiar sound of the Fiesta ST with a stupid exhaust that had been the main culprit at our last house.....turns out we moved to the house behind his 
Jimmy Recard said:
dibbers006 said:
've always wondered this... who actually eats, and therefore has to hand, frozen sausages?
Does one have to buy them specially for this purpose?
I used to freeze sausages when I was a student (normal student weird eating patterns and brain bent on saving pennies)Does one have to buy them specially for this purpose?
I intend to unfreeze, cook and eat them at some point.
No lawns were harmed in the writing of this post.
Have this all the time outside our house. The French don't seem to get the difference between quiet village road, and motorway. I made a petition with our neighbours and they are resurfacing the road with speedbumps and chicanes, with new pavements etc.
When we first moved though, I spoke to the girl in the bakery because I saw her every day doing at least 80km/h in her saxo, fag in one hand, mobile in the other, Saxo just floating along the road over the bumps in the way that cars with poorly damped suspension do. I told her that she would have an accident soon. She was like "ok whatever".
About 4 months later on a dark November night I heard a crash. Right outside our place two cars had collided (luckily only minor). I went outside to check everyone was ok, and it was her. I just looked at her and shrugged and went back inside. She hasn't changed her behavior. Idiot.
I also spoke to another guy who asked me whether I had a radar in my head.
It was at this point I started the petition. The level of apathy was staggering. Some neighbours even tried to refuse signing the petition with the response "there is no point in my signing that because you'll never get them to do that".
Anyway, €1.4m of agreed roadworks later... I am hopefully the winner.
In answer to the OP, generally doing it yourself won't work. As tempting as it is to chuck something across the road into them leaving them nowhere to go other than someone's back garden, it is also a bad idea. I would just report them to the council/police and see what happens.
When we first moved though, I spoke to the girl in the bakery because I saw her every day doing at least 80km/h in her saxo, fag in one hand, mobile in the other, Saxo just floating along the road over the bumps in the way that cars with poorly damped suspension do. I told her that she would have an accident soon. She was like "ok whatever".
About 4 months later on a dark November night I heard a crash. Right outside our place two cars had collided (luckily only minor). I went outside to check everyone was ok, and it was her. I just looked at her and shrugged and went back inside. She hasn't changed her behavior. Idiot.
I also spoke to another guy who asked me whether I had a radar in my head.
It was at this point I started the petition. The level of apathy was staggering. Some neighbours even tried to refuse signing the petition with the response "there is no point in my signing that because you'll never get them to do that".
Anyway, €1.4m of agreed roadworks later... I am hopefully the winner.
In answer to the OP, generally doing it yourself won't work. As tempting as it is to chuck something across the road into them leaving them nowhere to go other than someone's back garden, it is also a bad idea. I would just report them to the council/police and see what happens.
jhonn said:
If you can't track him down to speak to him personally then report him to the police, repeatedly - hopefully with enough complaints from you and your neighbours they'll send a patrol car to be in your neighbourhood at the appropriate time to 'feel his collar'.
If they won't do anything get your local paper involved, write to your MP, etc - get the neighbours to do the same.
Contact the Police. Explain that he is driving in a manner likely to result in an accident. Explain that they need to intervene otherwise you and your neighbours will be forced to take action yourselves. Provide registration, description of car and driver and the time that he drives down your road. Do this in writing / email so you have a record,If they won't do anything get your local paper involved, write to your MP, etc - get the neighbours to do the same.
Don't be fobbed off.
This was happening down the road I live on, but it's a 'cut through' road a more or less dead straight, cue it being the local race track - or so it sounds anyway.
One sunny afternoon a neighbor decided to kick a wheelie bin out in front of a speeding car. Needless to say the car slammed on the anchors but collided with the wheelie bin, que a few shouts and 'what if that was a child'
I'm sure it made that person think.
One sunny afternoon a neighbor decided to kick a wheelie bin out in front of a speeding car. Needless to say the car slammed on the anchors but collided with the wheelie bin, que a few shouts and 'what if that was a child'
I'm sure it made that person think.
stuartmmcfc said:
Jimmy Recard said:
dibbers006 said:
've always wondered this... who actually eats, and therefore has to hand, frozen sausages?
Does one have to buy them specially for this purpose?
I used to freeze sausages when I was a student (normal student weird eating patterns and brain bent on saving pennies)Does one have to buy them specially for this purpose?
I intend to unfreeze, cook and eat them at some point.
No lawns were harmed in the writing of this post.
My lawn's a mess.
Coincidence?
Cheers, Jim
BrettMRC said:
Offer to give him a run out in the 911, he will then understand what he should be aiming for in his future - and that no one is impressed with his Corsa ;-)
If he is a budding PHer he will think ' I reckon I could take this old codger next time out'. Most young blokes drive like idiots and then grow up, I know I did.As I walked home from the pub at the weekend, I witnessed a very unusual sight. A convoy of 4 modified cars driven by young men, there was a Civic, a Fiesta, a Polo and something else, not sure what.
All had the traditional hallmarks of modification, large, noisy exhausts, lowered suspension and different wheels.
Except, they drove along at little more than walking pace through the stretch of road which passes a parade of shops and a couple of pubs, meaning I was close to them. When they got to the bit closer to my road, and the residential area alongside the main road, that is when they all decided to floor it and race away as quickly as they could?
I've often been able to hear them doing this from my house, but until the weekend I hadnt ever seen them doing it in quite such an unusual fashion as this. Why wait till the residential area to put your foot down, why not wait another couple of minutes until you're out of town altogether and the speed limit goes from 30 to 50 and there aren't any more houses?
All had the traditional hallmarks of modification, large, noisy exhausts, lowered suspension and different wheels.
Except, they drove along at little more than walking pace through the stretch of road which passes a parade of shops and a couple of pubs, meaning I was close to them. When they got to the bit closer to my road, and the residential area alongside the main road, that is when they all decided to floor it and race away as quickly as they could?
I've often been able to hear them doing this from my house, but until the weekend I hadnt ever seen them doing it in quite such an unusual fashion as this. Why wait till the residential area to put your foot down, why not wait another couple of minutes until you're out of town altogether and the speed limit goes from 30 to 50 and there aren't any more houses?
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