Female (driver and passenger) participants in street takeover die in crash..compton

[Demovictory9]

[aeromanKC]

1. ZERO Thoughts and Prayers

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. I feel badly for the innocent driver.

Not the instigators.

[superpatriotman]

15. He's lucky he wasn't dragged from his car

And given some mob justice from the gawkers involved in this 'takeover' (or whatever name we use to justify this idiotic behavior.)

[IcyPeas]

3. play stupid games.....

[Bluepinky]

4. What's a street takeover? Doesn't sound legal.

[Sympthsical]

7. It's not

The reporters here are calling them street takeovers but they're also called sideshows.

People block off a big intersection and then do donuts and drift around. It is one of the dumbest things you will ever witness. Not only the drivers, but the people standing around who can be very easily hit and killed if a driver loses control.

It's Darwinism in its purest form.

San Francisco and other areas around the Bay have been having issues with this in the past few years.

A recent local story about them.

https://abc7news.com/bay-area-sideshow-illegal-crackdown-antioch-mayor-lamar-thrope-police/11902359/

[Bluepinky]

9. Thanks! Sounds pretty stupid.

[localroger]

17. It's becoming a problem in New Orleans too.

People are coming from out of town to participate.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. It's in most every big city

There are "clubs" that are national that feature stuff like this.

There was a long LBN thread last month about it - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142913269

During the pandemic, many of the "popular" streets were empty and they got into doing it more and more and now with people going back into offices, it's become untenable.

The below was last fall happened and downtown here in Philly, literally right in front of City Hall.

[Initech]

22. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

[BlackSkimmer]

8. There was a thread about this happening in Compton last week.

I’ll have to look for the link.

Only a matter of time till someone got killed. Fools.

[Jose Garcia]

12. This kind of thing could give Compton a bad reputation

[BlackSkimmer]

14. Lol.

Ya think?

[Demovictory9]

20. Its happens more in inland empire

[chowder66]

13. This happens all the time here in Los Angeles.

Google "street takeover deaths".

Typically they ramp up, die down then ramp up again over the course of the year.

[chowder66]

10. It isn't legal and it's when cars take over an intersection

doing donuts and tricks with a crowd of people watching. The onlookers block the roads with their cars so police can't get easy access and they pop up usually at night.

By the time the cops get notified the crowd and cars disperse to another intersection somewhere.

I was thinking they should install road bollards but I think that would probably cause too many problems during regular traffic hours.

[Demovictory9]

18. Example on video below

[in2herbs]

5. What is the purpose to a street takeover? nt

[chowder66]

11. There is zero purpose. It is bored kids that have no consideration for others.

[EX500rider]

16. To do illegal donuts & burnouts & drift with a crowd watching

[Demovictory9]

19. Young mostly male risk taking

[Skittles]

23. a chance for people to let out their inner moron

it goes beyond youth......these are stupid, selfish assholes

[Sugarcoated]

6. I didn't know this had a name

Street takeovers have been happening in NW Philly, probably all parts of the city. Seems the idiots are testing it out just past Philly limits into the township where I live. Happens in the wee hours, I can often hear what sounds like drag racing. A couple weeks ago someone posted video, an intersection was taken over by souped up cars and ATVs going round in circles

[Ron Green]

24. Gas is still cheap, and paved streets are way too wide.

Otherwise this stuff wouldn’t be happening.

[JI7]

27. We always paid far less than other countries do

Even now it's more expensive but not so expensive that most people's lifestyles are changing.

[Raine]

25. Idiocy on parade. 🙄 nt

[JI7]

26. Thankfully nobody innocent died in this. No sympathy at all for those that did die

they could have killed that innocent man. And too often innocent people are killed.

[Abolishinist]

28. We had one of these (only the latest) in San Diego

over the weekend. No humans were injured, but someone's dog jumped out of the window of their apartment due to the noise and died.

ALL of the participants need to do, at a MINIMUM, a LOT of community service for what they've done. Worthless freakin' morons.

[Demovictory9]

29. they are happening everywhere now