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Posted by: LiamNWN May 14 2009, 08:57 AM

NEWBURY'S so-called “Boy Racers” claimed this week that they are being “harassed” by police and asked for it to stop.
Hitting back at residents’ cricticisims of their behaviour and their driving on local roads, a large group of male and female teenagers invited Newburytoday to come and spend some time with them at Newbury Retail Park on Friday night so they could explain their frustrations.
One teenager, 17-year-old Tyler Bridgeman, said the car park offered his social circle the only place to meet away from their homes and the watchful eyes of their parents, and had given him the opportunity to make new friends.

Read the full story here: http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=10016

What do you think about this story?

Posted by: Andy May 14 2009, 09:11 AM

As it's their peers, they need to work on educating the trouble makers.

Then in time trust will be built up and maybe they can continue to meet in the car parks. A little self policing will go a long way

Posted by: Simon May 14 2009, 09:35 AM

I have been on the side of the boy racers so far, but last night I popped up to Mcdonalds drive through and there were loads parked in the car park. At first I thought fair play to them, they looked to be having fun but then the idiots started wheel spinning, pulling handbrake turns and performing donuts in the car park, causing mayhem and smoke.

Admittedly, it wasn't all of them and was just a few, but its that few that case the police to "harass" them. So the blame lies with the idiots of the group and not the police

Posted by: Bill1 May 14 2009, 09:41 AM

Why dont the 90% of good ones disassociate with the troublesome ones?

I know this may cause a short term risk for the well behaved ones, but once the unwelcome people are removed either because they feel alienated or because they are arrested for any crime perpetrated the others can get on with their socialising in peace.

Posted by: dannyboy May 14 2009, 07:18 PM

well, where else are they going to go now that Parkway has been put out of bounds....

Posted by: Gumbo May 15 2009, 08:21 AM

How about racing up and down outside their own houses (more likely to be parent's houses) ?

Posted by: Good Boy Racer May 15 2009, 10:06 AM

Oh no Gumbo, we cant do that. Our parents would kill us!

Posted by: barney3 Jun 16 2009, 06:01 PM

The boy racers do not have any repect for themselves so you are wasting your time talking about repect they should show for other road users or house holders.
They would not know what you mean.

Posted by: wispa Jun 28 2009, 07:02 PM

i used 2 do all of this stuff im now 20 and grown out of it abit, but a little while ago i was thinkin of why dont i just find an unused stretch of land like at greeham airbase and put them all in there i was thinkin of doing a club eg 'south central cruisers' and call it 'newbury cruise' like reading n all the other places have, that way there all in 1 place and they can do anything they want, if they crash.. tuff hopefully they will learn by there mistakes! it would be fun 4 them and get it all out of there system, you could work with the traffic cops keeping it all under control outside the area etc.. and wot goes on inside the zone stays inside no harm done. i have neva followd this up as i have no idea were 2 start

what do u lot think?

Posted by: Darren Jun 28 2009, 07:31 PM

Why not get together and pay for a track day somewhere rather than expect it to be provide for you?

Posted by: wispa Jun 28 2009, 07:36 PM

because for 1 thers a gestimate of around 100-200 people a week go round newbury, not every1 get along with each other thats why they have the small groups but the 2 spaces were every1 goes because thers not enough room 4 every1 in just macas or just tescos, and also that would only be 1 day, im talking night time mainly and it would be pretty much every night, you could also make money out of it by doin the race days on weekends pay for drag racing against each other, closest place they can do that i think is santa pod which is only on big events wich costs alot of money 2 do and teens are always skint

Posted by: Jobet Jun 28 2009, 11:36 PM

As Greenham Common is open to the public and they can walk nearly everywhere there I reckon you would soon get the same agro flung at you as happens at Tescos etc., If the boy racers had a stretch of space there they would soon break the rules and be roaring about all over the place.The beauty of Greenham Common does not need to be spoiled by stupid youths trying to be big or the noise this sort of thing would bring.

Posted by: Good Boy Racer Jun 29 2009, 08:59 AM

They all go to the new Sainsbury's car park now, thats the new hot spot, so you wont be seeing them anywhere else like Mc Donalds for example.

Posted by: Gumbo Jun 29 2009, 09:21 AM

Wow how exciting for these people a new car park to play in. It really doesn't get much better than that!

Posted by: Good Boy Racer Jun 29 2009, 09:33 AM

Nope it really doesn't.

Posted by: Blake Jun 29 2009, 11:22 AM

What disappoints me is the negative environmental aspect also of these characters.

We are suffering the most serious environmental and fuel crisis in our history and their antics are only exacerbating it.

Surely it would be far better to encourage them to take up a more environmentaly friendly pursuit such as conservation or cycle racing.

Posted by: Good Boy Racer Jun 29 2009, 11:57 AM

Okay, get them to buy and race an Eco friendly or an eletrical car?

Posted by: Road User Jun 29 2009, 12:15 PM

This is exactly why boy reacers aren't wanted in these public car parks.

If what you are doing is so frowned upon by your parents why would the public want you doing it in places they might need to go.

I would rather you were at McDonalds then racing past my house though.

Posted by: wispa Jun 29 2009, 09:16 PM

i didnt say greenham common, theres old air strips and conreted areas up there which is what i was refering 2, but that was only an example shuda gone 2 specsavers..
point is people, they all want 2 do it and they will do it cuz they keep geting told not 2 wich give them the rush 2 do it more, just the way it is, if u work WITH them u will get somewhere.. basic point im tryin 2 get accros is that this is guna happen no mata wot so insted of geting rid of the problem move it out of the way from every1 else.. if u were 2 ask all the people that hang out in these places there opinion on this topic of having a specific place out of the way i garantee pretty much every 1 of them would agree

Posted by: Andy Jun 29 2009, 11:23 PM

Wispa - Do you think you could possible write in English, as reading this is pretty painful. Try using the spellchecker (the ABC tickbox on the top right when composing) if you find it difficult to do yourself.

Posted by: GMR Jun 29 2009, 11:34 PM

I think to be fair there are a lot of people on here who do have problems communicating their thoughts into the written word. I agree with you about spellcheckers, however, that doesn’t help when there are many different ways to say a word and even spell it.

Posted by: Iommi Jun 30 2009, 12:15 AM

Which is when a Thesaurus can come in handy. My spelling is atrocious, as is my grammar, but I will endeavour to write as well as I can. I would also say though, that some of us have less of an excuse than others.

Posted by: GMR Jun 30 2009, 12:17 AM

I don't think that is the only problems you've got

Posted by: AmieB Jun 30 2009, 08:32 AM

Oh no, not this spelling crap again. So boring......... Sometimes im rushing when i write and make mistakes, other times I just cant be bothered to recheck my post. Does it matter that much?

You have more time on your hands if you go around checking peoples spelling

Posted by: Darren Jun 30 2009, 08:41 AM

AmieB

Have you read the post in question?

It's not a simple spelling mistake. The whole post is very poorly written with minimal punctuation, embarrassingly bad grammar and full of 'txt spk'. It is very difficult to read and understand in one go. I took 4 attempts before giving up.

OK, my written and oral English isn't perfect but that post was appalling.

Posted by: AmieB Jun 30 2009, 08:50 AM

Yes i read the original post and understood it ok.
I just dont see why it always comes up on this forum (previously your views) and matters to people so much.

Posted by: scott Jun 30 2009, 09:06 AM

Back to topic, I live near to tesco's and all i could hear last night was screeching tyres, engines revving, handbrake turns and rev limiters. If it happens again tonight, i will be getting out of bed and putting a stop to it.

On a side note, has anyone parked on the far side of tesco car park recently and seen the state of the "road" burnout marks, skids etc etc. I complained when in tesco a few weeks back, and the "security guard" wasn't interested.

Posted by: GMR Jun 30 2009, 09:43 AM

To be honest we all make mistakes; my problem is I don't always check them properly. But we shouldn't be judging the way one writes, but what they say.

Posted by: ossy Jun 30 2009, 10:02 AM

Wispa you seem to have a misunderstanding of Greenham Common, there certainly is land at Greenham Common you could use but, all the land associated with Greenham is owned by someone, either the trust or by the company's operating up there. So if you want to go there by all means apply to rent or buy one of these areas?

That's the trouble with you boy racers you see an empty bit of concrete and think it's your right to drive on it. The only conceivable way that you can drive around in circles with smoking tyres until your heart is content is to buy the land to do it on....good luck with that one.

Until then I suspect you will stick to the public road so the police can carry on harrasing you.

Posted by: Strafin Jun 30 2009, 10:11 AM

AimeeB, Se eu escrevo aqui inteiramente no português, a seguir ninguém está indo realmente compreendê-lo tão bem. Não é sobre a soletração que é sobre a compreensão. Os erros de soletração menores podem ser perdoados, mas alguma do que está sendo escrita é quase estrangeira.

Posted by: Andy Jun 30 2009, 10:27 AM

Well said....I wasn't critisising the spelling, just the manner in which it was wriiten ie using text speak, which almost needs translation in itself and coupled with the possible spelling mistakes (as I am not sure are deliberate or natural) made it hard to read with any fluency, especially as it was quite long.

Posted by: Iommi Jun 30 2009, 11:56 AM

Imagine how hard it is for me to understand, as thick and unintelligent as I am!

Posted by: AmieB Jun 30 2009, 12:38 PM

Bem eu consegui ler o que ele escreveu. Não quero tornar este um debate. Obrigado

Amie not Aimee

Posted by: JeffG Jun 30 2009, 12:40 PM

Shouldn't that be 'obrigada'? (Sorry - couldn't resist )

Posted by: Strafin Jun 30 2009, 01:08 PM

I didn't think spelling was important...

Posted by: AmieB Jun 30 2009, 01:19 PM

You got me

Posted by: Strafin Jun 30 2009, 02:09 PM

Bless ya!

Posted by: Bill1 Jun 30 2009, 05:16 PM

See! There you go again having a dig at Iommi for no reason whatsoever.

Pretty sad really!

Posted by: wispa Jul 2 2009, 09:43 PM

sorry its just easier and quicker, thought you would understand it as not complety short hand writing..

Posted by: wispa Jul 2 2009, 10:02 PM

i just want to point out that i dont do the boy racer thing anymore i grew out of it last year, and i never complained about police, they only stopped me once out of my hole time driving so far and that was because i had a brake light out.. but im now in full on working life paying bills geting a house etc i have better things to think about, i just have alot of mates that still do it, i want to help them. greenham park was just an example as its a massive space, as far as i no alot is unused maby wrong?
where can i find out about renting some land?

Posted by: Strafin Jul 2 2009, 10:05 PM

I thought NGP was a very good idea, Ridgeway store a lot of cars up there and rent a lot of room, maybe they could sponsor some sort of cruise, by lettin you on their land?