Prime Time Tonight - Boy Racers

Seth Brundle

It may interest many on here that Prime Time tonight (25 Jan) on RTE is going to feature Boy Racers.
RTE1 9:30pm!

kluivert

Here we go again...

I liked the bit they done months ago about young drivers, drinking and driving, road safety etc

Seth Brundle

Im just after looking in the modded cars forum and Ken O'Shea of RTE said here that it was due to be on the 24th - I reckon he is wrong but I will confirm.

lightening

kbannon wrote:

Im just after looking in the modded cars forum

Purely for research of course.

caesar

kbannon wrote:

Im just after looking in the modded cars forum and Ken O'Shea of RTE said here that it was due to be on the 24th - I reckon he is wrong but I will confirm.

It's on tonight, I saw an advertisement for it last night on RTE.

KTRIC

I heard they got a delivery of a big bucket of tar and some very wide brushes just for this episode of Prime Time.

Blitzkrieger

pfff, tbh

DarkJager

"C'mon n we go cruisin with some daycent choons in our Johnny go faster cars"

Gerry

Hopefully Charlie Bird will get to say his piece, what a hero.

ando

lightening wrote:

Purely for research of course.

whats that suppose to mean

Seanie M

Another episode to stir anger in the general public, highlighting the sh1ts out there that ruin some peoples lives with their poor atitudes, loud engines, and poor road etiquette, and yet offer nothing to counter it. Excellent.

Biro

Gerry wrote:

Hopefully Charlie Bird will get to say his piece, what a hero.

LOL!

lightening

ando wrote:

whats that suppose to mean

Oops.. no offence meant! (nice car)

5500

I wonder if its the original show that was aired a few months back which in fairness did try to show that everyone with a modified car wasnt a reckless fool.

BUT i recently heard of some rte heads looking for info on illegal street racing ect ect and as far as i know they had there cameras out last month in monaghan filming something so it could well be about that

mike65

Yay! I'm looking fowards to this but will have to tape it (watching Five Days on BBC1 atm).

Mike.

FX Meister

Gerry wrote:

Hopefully Charlie Bird will get to say his piece, what a hero.

Why, is he a boy racer or something?

skibum

FX Meister wrote:

Why, is he a boy racer or something?

dingding

And breaking the irish speed record at 200mph with people standing on is not irresponsible. ?????

johnnyrotten

Jesus there are some irresponsible PR!CK$ out there

Mr Magnolia

johnnyrotten wrote:

Jesus there are some irresponsible PR!CK$ out there

Yes, but there has to be education - from secondary school level,
there's no mandatory education at the minute which is ridiculous IMO.

johnnyrotten

Sparks400 wrote:

Yes, but there has to be education - from secondary school level,
there's no mandatory education at the minute which is ridiculous IMO.

Education is one thing but these ar$seholes screwing around on public roads is just them being ar$eholes. Education won't help these muppets.

Mr Magnolia

johnnyrotten wrote:

Education won't help these muppets.

I agree, I was speaking generally.

Those fools should have there licence revoked

PauloMN

johnnyrotten wrote:

Education is one thing but these ar$seholes screwing around on public roads is just them being ar$eholes. Education won't help these muppets.

Educating them to speak English would be a start. I'd serious difficulty trying to decipher what they were on about some times (and I went to college up in Dundalk, so I did, hi ).

Wasn't any major eye openers for me other than the people with traffic cones on their heads standing in the middle of tossers doing donuts. What is all that about? Might be terrible to say, but I'm not really that bothered if someone stupid enough to do something like that gets hurt.

How the cops can't nip this sort of thing in the bud is beyond me. How difficult is it to run a covert operation to catch these guys and impound/crush cars rather than turning up in the battered old blue-lighted 1.4 Focus FFS?

PauloMN

PauloMN wrote:

How the cops can't nip this sort of thing in the bud is beyond me. How difficult is it to run a covert operation to catch these guys and impound/crush cars rather than turning up in the battered old blue-lighted 1.4 Focus FFS?

I think you are underestimating the scale of this activity.

PauloMN

ronoc wrote:

I think you are underestimating the scale of this activity.

How so?

If a camera crew can go up one night and tape shed loads of these scumbags (with the reg plates showing) doing donuts in a car park, why can't the Gardaí do the same?

Block the car park, let people out one by one and impound the culprits motors. Would stop them pretty sharpish.

No, what to they do? Walk about with the torch checking tax. Nice one. :rolleyes:

Rudolph Claus

Absolute joke it is. They show scumbag joyriders in a programme about decent people that work for their cars. There like comparing joyriders to people that meet up and look at each others cars. Theres no harm in a cruise, although dopes hanging out of windows is a bit retarded.

Whats so difficult for people to understand and see that theres no harm in a few people that are into cars meeting up in a spot and doing some doghnouths or whatever. You cant compare this to people that get killed on the roads of any age bracket. Its a load of propaghanda and its getting seriously boring.

What had a scumbag fooker trying to outrun the guards ina stolen car got to do with the topic that Rte were trying to report on????? Its disgusting that a national tv station can blatantly compare a normal young lad thats just interested in cars and doing no harm to a dirty junkie waster stealing peoples cars.

Just goes to show that Rte still havent got a clue. Pity there not so quick to do a feature on car crime and all the cars being stolen and also report on the lack of facilities like that course in Donegal that young lads can meet up and mess a bit in a private course. But, that would be positive reporting and not sensational enough to report on and get ratings.

PauloMN

PauloMN wrote:

How so?

If a camera crew can go up one night and tape shed loads of these scumbags (with the reg plates showing) doing donuts in a car park, why can't the Gardaí do the same?

At a guess I'd say resources.

PauloMN wrote:

Block the car park, let people out one by one and impound the culprits motors. Would stop them pretty sharpish.

They can't. Most times its private property. In most cases they can't even ask them to move on without a complaint from the property owner.

What are they going to impound them for in any case? the only time Ive heard of that happening is if the driver is incapacitated or isn't insured.

JHMEG

Suspect the program was done for sensationalism. Hugely flawed.

Big difference between skobies in stolen cars at the Inichicore flats and young lads with tarted up whatevers in car parks -- they showed both on the program and didn't distinguish.

I have to admit I tho that I thought the drifting around roundabouts was kinda cool.

Seth Brundle

Someone who thinks its fine to drive dangerously in a Tesco car park will drive dangerously on a public road.
As for some of them disassociating cruises from speeders - give me a break!

mike65

You have to wonder about how seriously the Gards take this, the Bellview Port road is classic, its a known hot-spot and its the worlds easier road to close but they don't bother.

KK county council should just put down those wide ramps every 4-500 metres
that would go a long way to fixing the problem.

Mike.

PauloMN

Resources. The same old excuse again and again. They had enough resources to send the boys out with torches though. :rolleyes:

I'll admit legislation is a problem though. If someone with 65 driving convictions is out and about, there's certainly a problem. That prick should be looking at 15 years given that he didn't learn from the first 10 convictions.

prospect

It thought it was very fair.
It showed some people just hanging around, which is fine. But it focused on the scum who went on trying to act the fool on the road.
They also emphasised the difference between an enthusiast and a "boy racer"

Although it didn't offer any real solutions.

As said earlier, could some undercover guards not video the law breakers, and record the reg plates. Then block off the area, and confiscate the guilty parties cars and crush them.

Same for the fat cat tearing around in a high powered exec car, take it away and crush it.

mike65

mike65 wrote:

You have to wonder about how seriously the Gards take this, the Bellview Port road is classic, its a known hot-spot and its the worlds easier road to close but they don't bother.

Just moving the problem elsewhere then. They can't speed bump the whole country.

PauloMN

So what do you suggest ronoc? Leave them be, let them kill one of their own (not really an issue in my book), or an innocent bystander (real big problem in my book).

DeBeere

ronoc wrote:

Just moving the problem elsewhere then. They can't speed bump the whole country.

Can you imagine, that would be horrible!

Haven't watched it yet but have it recorded, sounds entertaining.

PauloMN

PauloMN wrote:

So what do you suggest ronoc? Leave them be, let them kill one of their own (not really an issue in my book), or an innocent bystander (real big problem in my book).

More skid pans or tracks for them to mess about on would be a good start. Take it off the streets. Which would at least leave those with no interest in behaving safely on the roads no excuse.

Guy:Incognito

ronoc wrote:

More skid pans or tracks for them to mess about on would be a good start. Take it off the streets. Which would at least leave those with no interest in behaving safely on the roads no excuse.

Buying law breakers things isnt an acceptable solution to problems. If I want something should I go out and annoy enough gards/politicians etc till they buy it for me?

They do this with travellers and I dont agree with it, escalating this "solution" is unaccepable in my book.


Plus they'll soon get bored or decide they dont want to travel to tracks and get more fun out of doing it on nice big open roads.

PauloMN

ronoc wrote:

More skid pans or tracks for them to mess about on would be a good start. Take it off the streets. Which would at least leave those with no interest in behaving safely on the roads no excuse.

There's no excuse anyway. Besides the gob****es doing the real dangerous stuff will continue to use the roads and car parks, and will continue to have people hanging out of the cars etc., and will continue to enjoy the chases from the Gardaí.

Stekelly

Stekelly wrote:

Buying law breakers things isnt an acceptable solution to problems. If I want something should I go out and annoy enough gards/politicians etc till they buy it for me?

They do this with travellers and I dont agree with it, escalating this "solution" is unaccepable in my book.


Plus they'll soon get bored or decide they dont want to travel to tracks and get more fun out of doing it on nice big open roads.

Give me a break. There is a pathetic amount of motor sport facilities in this country. This is a huge area of interest for thousands of people in this country.

5500

I thought it was good in the fact it showed what actually does happen nightly in every county in the country BUT as JHMEG said it didnt differentiate between an ethusiast/boy racer/joyriding scumbag and just pushes further the mentality to joe public that if theres alloys or an exhaust on your car you engage in what was shown.

unkel

Nothing new or revealing in the program, was there?

dingding wrote:

And breaking the irish speed record at 200mph with people standing on is not irresponsible. ?????

I agree. Bringing your wan on to comment was hypocritical and counterproductive. Apart from that, she didn't really have anything useful to say

Wishbone Ash

unkel wrote:

Bringing your wan on to comment was hypocritical and counterproductive

But, by Christ, she was gorgeous in her day. We used to drool over her at school in the 70s. (She hasn't aged well!)

BrandonBlock

Anyone know is this repeated at all, I missed it.. ??

Blitzkrieger

ronoc wrote:

They can't speed bump the whole country.

They already have.


No wait...........



..........those are pot holes.......

JHMEG

BrandonBlock wrote:

Anyone know is this repeated at all, I missed it.. ??

If you don't mind installing Real Player bloatware on your PC you can watch Prime Time in poor quality on RTE's website.

furtzy

Usual brain dead knobs in their sh*t heap cars trying to be cool.

Good to see the Guards stopping them but they should adopt a zero-tolerance approach i.e do them for every little traffic offence like illegal number plates, tax, NCT's etc. Hassle them at every opportunity until they get the message. They'll soon get sick of the constant fines and court apperances

HashSlinging

I didnt see prime time last night but im not sure a zero tolerance approach will get this problem sorted, programs like this seem to have the opposite effect as far as im concerned. I'd rather see my television licence money going to promote youth culture (what music, modified cars is all about) rather than trying to point a finger at a problem. It all sounds very familiar and very like gaybo on the radio years ago saying that every youth in the country under 21 was on E or to drugged out of their little minds to have an opinion/interest.

HashSlinging

HashSlinging wrote:

It all sounds very familiar and very like gaybo on the radio years ago saying that every youth in the country under 21 was on E or to drugged out of their little minds to have an opinion/interest.

Spot on.

It has all the hall marks of a moral panic

dubstub

I thought parts of the show were good and parts were just woeful. The worst was Ms. 70-year-old ex-rally driver explaining how the car could flip over at any moment during donuts and how a simple stone in the road could throw a car off track. This was then followed by a shot of her screaming down a country road at 200 mph with spectators everywhere... Then there was that guy from the AA - what was he on about? What is the link between driving like a lunatic, putting lives at risk and Pulp Ficton? Or iPods for that matter?

prospect

eireal wrote:

BUT as JHMEG said it didnt differentiate between an ethusiast/boy racer/joyriding scumbag and just pushes further the mentality to joe public that if theres alloys or an exhaust on your car you engage in what was shown.

What??

Did you fall asleep?

They very clearly distinguished the difference between a genuine modder and the scumbag. The Psychiatrist Guy, Conor AA Guy both spoke about the distinction and they continually interviewed the Modified Mag Guy.

Wishbone Ash

prospect wrote:

The Psychiatrist Guy

Psychologist?