MTV inspired rant

So MTV’s “True Life: I’m a street racer” is currently on (originally aired in 2003) and this has brought some thoughts to my mind.

1. A cop is saying how most of the time the cars are modified with poor quality parts and how we shouldn’t want to be driving next to a vehicle that is modified in such a way. Geez, thanks for telling me what I should be worried about, but guess what? I’ll take my chances any day driving next to a lowered or otherwise modified vehicle any day than someone leaving a bar, party, or restaurant that had been drinking.

2. When asked if there was anything better they could be doing besides picking on street racers, the cop answered “no.” Sorry, but WHAT THE HELL? Are you telling me that street racing is the ONLY illegal activity going on in San Diego County? No murders, rapes, burglaries, car thefts, child molestation, drunk drivers, vandalism, people speeding in their SUVs while on their cell phones, drug trafficking, NOTHING? That street racing was the only thing causing deaths? Yeah, people die from street racing, but a whole lot more die of a whole lot more things.

Ugh, the whole thing just PISSES ME OFF. Here they show a bunch of fine officers ticketing people for blue colored turn signals and cold air intakes, thinking their freaking heroes while someone is actually probably in harm’s way because of a drunk driver. DAMN THOSE BLUE HEADLIGHTS, DAMN THEM! When will the carnage caused by blue headlights ever end?!?!

I guess a good thing to come of this is that Drag Net of San Diego was disbanded in 2007, and assigned to auto theft detail. How wonderful, after 6 years they finally put the officers on REAL crime.

But… WAIT A MINUTE. I am not done with Drag Net. This is what they were assigned to do all those years:

“The team would comb Web sites that advertise last-minute locations for the clandestine races. Team members would swoop in on the thousands of onlookers and participants at the nighttime gatherings in places such as Kearny Mesa and Otay Mesa.

They went undercover to surreptitiously film racers at the illegal events, recording faces and license plates – many from the fleeing fans and racers. An arrest warrant would be compiled, and the dragsters would be arrested at home.”

Isn’t this ENTRAPMENT? You can’t go into a bar, secretly film an obviously drunk person, film them driving home… and then arrest them at home. That isn’t allowed. In most places, cops aren’t allowed to make drunk driving stops within a such and such distance of a drinking establishment. But yet the government paid cops to go to freaking In-N-Out Burger, film the faces and plates of car enthusiasts hanging out, and then use that against them? Because believe me, they weren’t just at the races filming these people.  There is a reason and good logic behind removing one’s license plates while at car shows and legal tracks, and covering up the VIN on the dash

Good riddance Drag Net. Just think of the lives they could’ve saved by assigning those officers to looking for drunks.

Enough for now.