Originally Posted by '96BonnevilleL67

That'* with the Street Racing deaths numbers pumped way up, just in case it'* gone up since 2001 (I would assume so - people blame the spike in Street Racing deaths between 2000 and 2001 on the F&F release). Anyways, drunk drivers kill about 16,000 people a year - about 39% of all traffic deaths and they get how many strikes before anything serious happens to them? They never get their cars smashed at all.

I'm not condoning street racing, or even condemning the practice of smashing street racer'* cars, but I think it'* plainly obvious that our punishments are inconsistent with the effect the crime has on society. This is just my opinion, but I think we would save more lives and be more effective if the punishments were exactly reversed. Get caught drunk driving, we smash your car - first offense. Get caught racing, go to court, pay a big fine, a street racer plate would be seen as a badge of honor, but what if you forced them to have a street racer plate, and that meant they had to have steelies and a winter tire...you get the idea.

Originally Posted by ddalder

You may recall that I support the same measures for impaired drivers. Please don't confuse your stats. 16,000:500 deaths/year doesn't mean street racing isn't dangerous (or is safer). It simply means it results in fewer deaths. If you want to convince me that it is safer, show me the numbers. How many people drive impaired every year? Show me a comparison of this number to how many people take part in street racing. Calculate your number of deaths/1000 and prove me wrong! I don't think you can. There is much more to this than quoting numbers of total deaths.