[P-51]

Quote:The vehicles, which were stopped in separate incidences in 2004 and 2005, were substantially modified for street racing.

This is the type of thing that scares the crap out of me. My car is modified for trackdays, not street racing. But I'd love to see how they could guess the difference.

But... I'm reasonably satisfied that this bill isn't a big problem. At least I know that they can't pull me over and throw me in jail for getting a ricer flyby in my track whore.

Still kinda worries me... Say I'm driving on the street, and whatever, there's a terrible accident, maybe not even my fault. Cop takes one look at my car, HE assumes I must have been racing somebody, who "must have fled the scene".

The whole thing goes to court, cop testifies against me, he wins as usual.

For the defenders of this law, I think what scares us more than the law, is just that we have all been witness to police abusing their powers, writing tickets for laws that don't exist anyway (remember Simon?), and we also know what happens when we go to court and it's just us against "the man."

The real stupid thing about all this... as the one cop from Ottawa pointed out, street racing really isn't causing many deaths. Not compared to other things like drinking and driving.

And yet, of the two police officers I know personally, both of them admit to catching people drinking and driving, but not having hurt anybody, let them off after some sober up time in a coffee shop.

There aught to be a law against THAT!!!