Illegal Racing Getting Out of Hand

Illegal Racing is getting more and more rampant in the streets around Malaysia, not only the streets of KL but everywhere else, from Ipoh to Penang to Johor. It’s really getting out of hand and I do wonder what the police force is doing about it?

I don’t care if they plan to kill themselves but endangering lifes of people around their ‘race tracks’? I’ve seen some accidents went terribly wrong and not only do these idiots get injured, even those that’s not involved were affected. Personally, my car had been ‘injured’ by one of this a$$h0le before too!

Sometimes, on my way home from events or parties at night, I do see these ‘racers’ congregating at pre-determined petrol stations around town. It’s easy to spot, there’s just so many of them! But why isn’t the police force do anything? Even by driving around, they could easily spot these guys waiting to start racing. If they want to say, “BUT These guys are just hanging out there and not racing….”, well, you could always charge them for illegal gathering right if there’s more than 3 people at the spot? Right?

Time and time again, we see road blocks being set-up around town to make alcohol checks, why not change the location of the road-blocks onto roads actually used by these illegal racers so that something could be done at them too? Once I’ve seen cars and bikes literally racing up and down the stretch of road near my home and I don’t see any cops in sight. But, further down the road, I see a bunch of cops in their uniform sitting by the mamak stall having a drinks. Well, why not use that time to go stop some potential accidents waiting to happen rather than sitting there drinking?

Here’s 3 simple steps for the cops…

1. Stop sitting on your butt and roam the street (in normal cars) to check on these racers, the road direction do give a very good indication which path they’ll be using to race. There are various favorite hot spots where these ‘racers’ always hang out and congregate so it’s quite easy to identify unless we’re talking about a bunch of police officers that are either too stupid to realize or too lazy to bother to do their homework.

2. Get your men in position by entering the area from another direction so these guys doesn’t know about it. Set up the block at the other direction too cause they are bound to send out ‘scouts’ to try and spot for ‘troubles’. I’ve seen quite a few time where they had road blocks here and bikes and cars just turn around and go the other way without any one stopping them.

3. DO YOUR WORK! Not only when there’s TV crew around only you do some action. I do feel that the cops tend to put their act together very well in front of the camera but you won’t see any more actions when there’s no cameras around.

I’m not complaining cause I don’t get to race around like them and all but it’s more of safety of the people around. If want to race, why not do it at the race track right? Maybe the Malaysian government could also look at creating a “race track” within the city by closing up stretches of road to allow them to race safely. Then there won’t be any complains of going to the race track is too far and all that stuff. No body want to see an accident happen where people are killed. Right? I don’t mind these people killing themselves (there’s too many idiots on the road anyway) but they shouldn’t endanger other people as well.

Video 1: Mat Rempits

Video 2: Car Racing

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