Not so smart. Options

[JMoushon]

I write this with the best intentions, only time will tell if it is taken in the way it is meant to be. A lot of people post kill stories. Particularly Spy. If you read his last kill, he waxed eloquently of his pursuit and conquer of a certain Honda hatch. In California or Texas or something. This is both entertaining and smart. Smart in that it gives nothing away, and could be perceived as fiction. We may know better, we may not, but the point is that Spy maintains a modicum of plausible deniability, as do the rest of us who read it. On the other hand, let me talk about idiocy. Idiocy is:

When you post kills that took place at or near popular and consistent gathering spots.

When you describe the other person's car, and who they were with (other cars).

When you disclose exact location and time.

Worst: When you randomly post challenges involving time and place OTHER than a legal race venue.

I am personally guilty of posting a kill or two, though it does take a pretty pathetic car to be killed by the fwd. I understand this, so don't try to throw my words at me.

I recently had a conversation with a member of local law enforcement, a person who is a die-hard car enthusiast and fellow racer. And a cop. IF ANYONE BELIEVES FOR ONE SECOND THAT THE COPS DO NOT BROWSE THIS BOARD, YOU ARE WRONG. SAME FOR CII. Do not schedule races here. It sounds like a BS conspiracy theory, but think of the sheer # of cars now street racing, compared to a few years ago, and think of how the city and county view our habits/hobbies/addictions.

I posted this in an effort to keep people out of trouble, and the officer that brought this to me did so in order to keep me out of the same trouble. Please consider what I wrote, and if you feel some compulsive need to talk shit and include locations (SWKR) , don't over-disclose.

[natedogg]

people have hung out at the river longer than i've been alive....the cops got the idea of what goes on down there, their not stupid...but when there is a race, eeverybody drives over the bridge to an undisclosed spot, which would then be in peoria county, instead of pekin....i think that might be one reason why they really dont care that much.....and sometimes they stop down and talk about cars with us....

Did you even bother to read the 1st post of this thread?

I wouldn't be surprised to see some Peoria unmarkeds waiting on the other side of the Pekin bridge now to follow and nail.

Let me tell you a little story about something that happened about 2 years ago. We had an enormous get-together at the old Sears parking lot in downtown Peoria (I can name this place because no one gathers there anymore). Bigger than anything I've ever seen at the at any other location of gathering. People from Peoria, B/N, C/U, and Springfield showed up. Word must have gotten around pretty good. The internet'll do that. After so many cars showed up we headed out to an "undisclosed location" in Peoria. Well apparently it wasn't so undisclosed. About halfway there some of us (the well communicated) got word that an unmarked had made its way into our 'pack'. It was impossible to let everyone know what was up so those that got word just kept on going past the "undisclosed location". Those that continued on to it ran into a road block right by the "undisclosed location" (by pure chance I'm sure) and almost all of them got tickets for exhaust, window tinting, wreckless driving, etc. Hmm...I wonder how the cops found out about our get-together and "undisclosed location"?

Moral of the story. If you want to race on the street, that's fine. Like the first post of this thread said, Just don't announce it on the internet! Use private measures such as PM, email, phone calls, or word of mouth. Its that simple. If you must post it on the boards to keep up some kind of image or whatever, make it completely anonymous and only disclose locations through the previously mentioned mediums.