50 arrested in weekly crackdown on Bangkok road racing

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50 arrested in weekly crackdown on Bangkok road racing

By The Nation

 

Police arrested 50 motorcyclists for allegedly modifying their bikes for road racing in a weekly crackdown on Bangkok streets on Friday night.

 

This week, the crackdown focused on roads in the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police Division 3.

 

Pol Maj Gen Nithithorn Jintakanon, commander of the Traffic Police Division of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said 48 of the arrested are men and 12 of the 50 arrested are under 18. Seven of the arrested also tested positive to drug use.

 

Police manning road checkpoints seized 81 motorcycles found to have been illegally modified.

Nithithorn said police also seized 22 exhaust pipes that could emit noises louder than legal limit from 11 motorcycle repair shops during the check at shops in the jurisdiction area of the Metropolitan Police Division 3.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/around_thailand/30359659

 

 

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[Just1Voice]

Ok, here's a suggestion.  Confiscate the bikes.  Drain the gas out.  Lay them out side by side on a stretch of road, or large parking lot, and have them run over by a 10 ton road roller, totally smashing them.  And make the boys line up and watch.  

Do that 3-4 times, and I can pretty much guarantee that road racing will come to a halt.  

 

Alternative:  Pave a "road" somewhere out of the city, charge admission, provide medical crews, and let them race their little butts off. 

[mok199]

And yet it continues..

[wotsdermatter]

7 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Confiscate the bikes.  Drain the gas out.  Lay them out side by side on a stretch of road, or large parking lot, and have them run over by a 10 ton road roller, totally smashing them. 

A couple of months ago in the Philippines, a lot of very expensive vehicles, including cars and motorbikes that had been seized from drug importers, etc., received that very treatment.  This has happened a few times under the current regime.  No followup report outlining the success to provide drug suppliers from plying their commercial enterprises.

 

'nuf sed

[Ulic]

Confiscate the bikes, auction them off once the mufflers/racing wheels have been changed. Open up the race tracks to the public for racing on a regular basis. Provide safety equipment education. Not sure any of this will work but things can't get any worse. 

[Redline]

22 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Ok, here's a suggestion.  Confiscate the bikes.  Drain the gas out.  Lay them out side by side on a stretch of road, or large parking lot, and have them run over by a 10 ton road roller, totally smashing them.  And make the boys line up and watch.  

Do that 3-4 times, and I can pretty much guarantee that road racing will come to a halt.  

 

Alternative:  Pave a "road" somewhere out of the city, charge admission, provide medical crews, and let them race their little butts off. 

Make them clean up the crushed bikes, sell the scrap

[Henrik Andersen]

2 hours ago, Ulic said:

Confiscate the bikes, auction them off once the mufflers/racing wheels have been changed. Open up the race tracks to the public for racing on a regular basis. Provide safety equipment education. Not sure any of this will work but things can't get any worse. 

1. they still racing on streets to the track 

2. Why government need to provide safety equipment education 

3. Yes nothing will work because Thai people don't care 

4. Things can't get any worse, very wrong it will get more and more bad because they killing them self and others in the traffic 

[Humpy]

This is also a problem up here in the NE. Local police chiefs do nothing to stop this anti social behavior .

All it needs is for the local chief of police to get each village headman to tell the villagers, in his morning broadcast, that owners of motorcycles with modified exhausts will have their bikes confiscated if they do not fit lawful silencers by the end of the month..  Ooops, sorry, forgot, last year a village headman was murdered when he went to complain about the noise of a family's son's motorcycle. TIT !!