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Mark
""Damian Kevitt, a local resident and founder of Streets Are For Everyone (SAFE), said the Hollywood film series "glorifies an illegal activity" and as a result Angelino Heights had become "a tourist destination for illegal street racing.""
Local residents have every right to reject these activities and order the city mayor to put an end to it.
There are many race tracks and open deserts around the LA area, film makers and others can go there and enjoy themselves, but to endanger the lives of the locals for making $$ and fame is totally unacceptable.
KariHaruka
I can't believe that they are making a 10th F&F film... These stopped being good after F&F Tokyo Drift.
Harry_Gatto
Stopped? They never started being good.
Harry_Gatto
Are they really so naïve in believing that that will make a difference?
bass4funk
Well, that’s a totally personal subjective opinion, if it were that bad, these movies wouldn’t be breaking the box office, so there are a lot of people on the planet that loves these movies and if I’m the producer of these movies seeing that huge cash cow come in, why would I stop making them? As Long as the demand is there I would be stupid not to capitalize on its success. As for Tokyo Drift that film had nothing to really do with the other franchise, so you can kinda tick that one off.
shogun36
I guess they never saw part 9.
They aren't racing in the streets anymore.
They're making space ships out of old cars and spare parts and flying into the stratosphere.
Laguna
Cover the street with bots dots and speed bumps. While a tad annoying for local drivers, it would make loutish behavior impossible.
Speed
Put a couple of patrol cars on that strip and make them do their jobs.
wallace
I thought LA roads were full of potholes and crumbling infrastructure.
Mocheake
If you go over to the Namiki and Sachiura areas in Yokohama, not far from Nokendai station near where there's a Costco now, that was one of the spots where drifting and street racing was huge in the early- to mid-90s. There used to be dozens, sometimes hundreds of people out there on Saturday nights to watch the races and crashes. A few extra guardrails placed strategically along with extra patrols nipped that in the bud.
Yrral
They confiscate cars in Harris County,and sell them ,if you are drag racing,some of these fool have their children inside these cars ,need a Porsche Google Paul Pelosi Porsche
Yrral
Speed, it be thousands of spectators
Antiquesaving
Actually in what is referred to as the golden days of Hollywood most things were filmed on studio backlots but that became to expensive as street filming was a far cheaper option.
GBR48
Why not lobby the state authorities to employ a group of a armed, uniformed individuals to patrol the streets of LA and arrest people who break the law? That would do the trick.
ian
Will speedbumps help? I'm not entirely sure.
But someone getting fed up and flagging the racers with bullets probably will
Tom San
If you want to see some real street racing, check out the scene at the US-Mexico border, right next to the wall.
I think last year's pot was $16,000.
A lot of really awesome cars, of course.
starpunk
I remember the less than one season 'I Married Dora' TV series during the autumn of 1987 where during the first episode this divorced or widowed father marries his immigrant housemaid so she can stay legally in the US. There was a disclaimer at the beginning stating that it was a sham, saying 'Do not do this at home'.
Just like this scenario.
Dumb dumb-dumb dumb DUMB!!!!!