Crackdown on street racing in Chanthaburi - 248 vehicles seized and exhausts steamrollered

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: Street racers turn pale

 

Daily News reported from Muang district police station in Chanthaburi on Thailand's eastern seaboard.

 

Pol Maj-Gen Phadungsak Raksasuk presided over a press conference related to a crackdown on street racers from 1st to 20th November.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Seventeen cars and 231 motorcycles were seized.

 

470 items such as illegal exhausts were destroyed by steam roller. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The police said that they were going after owners, people who adapt bikes, detailers, producers as well as promoters and admin of sites that advertise street racing. 

 

Even those attending such events as spectators would be punished. 

 

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[JoePai]

Waste of time - the bikes also need destroying 

[ezzra]

Waste of time, crush and steam roll couple of cars flat and the message will be understood...

[Deli]

W-anchors at work. Give the people their fun and freedom.

[OJAS]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

470 items such as illegal exhausts were destroyed by steam roller. 

I suppose that we can but dream of the day when similar treatment is meted out to multi-megawatt sound systems seized from pickups.

 

[pattjock]

5 hours ago, JoePai said:

Waste of time - the bikes also need destroying 

Agree 100% . Also everyone importing and selling these illegal exhaust systems should be prosecuted. The lax system of checking vehicles before paying registration and tax could also checked.

[PETERTHEEATER]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

470 items such as illegal exhausts were destroyed by steam roller.

Disgusting. Probably used cheap dirty coal from far Cathay to fuel the boiler....????

[PETERTHEEATER]

The good news is that the recovered stainless steel scrap was sold to provide food for needy police families.

[Aussieroaming]

Illegal to install the exhausts but seemingly legal to sell them to the public.

 

I hear these tossers every night ripping up and down the road outside our condo and the problem had definitely gotten worse in my area over the last 5 years, which I put down to the evolution of fast food delivery companies. 

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

The police said that they were going after owners, people who adapt bikes, detailers, producers as well as promoters and admin of sites that advertise street racing

Good luck with that..