Antisocial stupid dangerous behaviour

By far the majority of people in our neighbourhood are decent, polite courteous folk. However, there are one or two that aren't.

We have blue motorbike lad, who thinks its ok to see how fast his bike can go, and to wheelie it, down our street. Not often, but often enough.

Then there's some idiot with his modified car (by modified, I mean fuse removed from ABS controller so that his brakes can just lock up like the old cars). We fairly regularly hear his engine screaming for mercy, followed by his tyres screaming for mercy.

The thing that bothers me is that there are loads of kids in our neighbourhood, and those that are big enough often play out in the streets. I'm worried that one day one (or more) is going to get wiped out by these idiots who are too stupid to know the difference between being on a track, and having had many hours specialist training and with safety teams on standby, and being a basic skills motorist on a residential street with kids playing out.

How do people tackle this sort of thing? Do you just keep your kids out of the way until the idiots wrap themselves round a lamp post, or is there something else that can be done?

 

Get an old hair dryer and stand outside your house.Point it at the offending knuckle draggers every time they drive past,they sound so dim they're bound to believe you've got a speed camera.

 

No one should have to put up with that sort of driving in a residential area.

Best thing would be to get a note of the registrations and send them, not to the police, but to one of the major insurance companies, with a note of their driving behavior and ask them to inform all the other insurance companies. I'm sure they would. They don't want to cover idiots like that so when they go to renew, they'll find they can't get cover.

We had mr green motorbiker reving it up around the local town. He looks really miserable now that his only form of transport is the wheelchair his mrs pushes him around in. Bit difficult to ride a motorbike with only one leg.

 

Video it and take it to the police, a family friend did this and the yob actually got charged with dangerous driving.

Rusty

 

But what happens if he doesn't have insurance anyway. A lot of young drivers don't. Eventually he will get caught if so but it would take some time.

 

I suspect at least one of them is legit. The car one. Its harder to use a car illegally than a bike, simply because cars have to have front and rear number plates so ANPR can collect their details easier.

 

I know, evil wife was hit by a young girl without insurance & guess who had to fork out for another car for her.

It is getting harder to not have insurance, details are checked automatically when you apply for road tax, but it needs tightening up even further.

 

The car may be insured, but if it's been modified e.g. by removing the fuse from the ABS and the insurance company hasn't been informed the insurance may be invalidated.

 

Yes, because some people take out insurance just prior to renewing their road tax, then cancel it.

Or some people transfer their insurance from one of their two cars to another just prior to re-taxing, so they only 'have' to insure one car. They then keep their uninsured vehicle on their driveway (but still continue to use it) as it's now illegal to have an uninsured vehicle parked in the highway.

And then they boast about their money saving exploits at the pub at the weekend.

 

I know this kind of a thing is a problem, and its not just kids that are likely to get killed.
I very nearly had a head on with one such prat last weekend.
It was only because I braked hard that I got away with it.

Its just one of those things that us living in the towns urban areas have to get used to, I bet every housing estate has its sprinkling of dodgy boy racers.
Always have been.

But my pet hate is the DSS scrounger who buys old wrecks, bodges them up, and parks them on rounder-bouts, playing fields, or any spare bit of pavement with a for sale sign.

 

Stick a sign over the top saying "Free Scrap metal"

 

Even worse are the really noisy dirt bikes that have something either added or taken away from the exhaust to make them sound really loud. I see no point in it at all.

Thankfully our local police have given residents a mobile number to call to report this.

I do wonder why young men do all of this though. I don't think it's to impress the ladies. Although I was quite impressed when a guy in his early 20's let me cross the road while I was on a traffic island. Although he ruined the moment by doing a "wheely" as he rode past me

 

I don't think its to impress the girls either, I think its some hormone driven showing off to the other males.

Got the registration of a young pratt today. Pimped up honda civic, big sticker saying "Skunk" in the back window,holding back in a traffic queue so he could accelerate to 60 for a few seconds in the middle of chard, whilst on his mobile.

Will pass that on to my insurance company, they can check my details so they know i'm legit and its not just a grudge report.

 

Perhaps we should all have to have a notice on the backs of our vehicles, "Hows my driving", followed by the number of our insurance company.

 

I want one that says "Do you want to see what damage my towbar will do to the front of your car, or are you going to back off?"