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Roughly one thousand illegal motorbike racers were arrested and more than a thousand modified motorbikes were seized in a crackdown by the Region 2 Police this month. Chonburi had the most arrests and seizures of a total of eight different provinces.

 

The Region 2 Police Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Surajit Chingnawan told TPN media, “We have arrested 1,108 motorbike racers and seized 1,802 motorbikes from eight provinces which are Chanthaburi, Chachoengsao, Chonburi, Trat, Nakhon Nayok, Prachinburi, Rayong and Sakaeo. We had the most arrests and seizures from Chonburi.”

 

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22 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

“We have arrested 1,108 motorbike racers and seized 1,802 motorbikes

 

Interesting.

 

Maybe some of these motorbike races can ride two bikes at the same time.  

Maybe only one of the bikes shown bears any resemblance to those routinely ridden blatantly, noisily and dangerously in arrogant demonstrations of desperate appeals for attention 500 meters from the local Police Station. The uniform standard of "cool" requires an absence of at least 75% of plastic cowlings, an exhaust system devoid of baffles or  better still a resonator megaphone attachment, no light fittings that are functional if they are actually still present, best done with no helmet, footwear, and of course the current obligatory multiple pointless multiple  blips on the throttle between gear changes having convinced a moronic assistance  pillion passenger to place his dumbass as far back as possible on the seat to achieve a momentary deluded version of a power wheel stand !

It is sad and IMO pathetic to witness so regularly when recalling same same but different behaviours I took part in when I was a teen ! lmao

But at least we kept it quiet on back roads .  

No mention of any fines for riders/parents, or payments made to return the motorcycles to their owners. Hitting offenders in their pockets and permanently removing their means to race are the only options if nowhere is provided for them to race legally.

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Roughly one thousand illegal motorbike racers were arrested and more than a thousand modified motorbikes were seized in a crackdown by the Region 2 Police this month. Chonburi had the most arrests and seizures of a total of eight different provinces

Just in Chonburi... this must be a national pastime?

10/10 for the police about time !!