To be sick to death of noisy cars

[Dappy777]

WHY don't the police do anything about this? I'm f-ing sick of it😡. Every year the problem gets worse. I'm sitting here unable to concentrate because some idiot is racing around in a souped up car.

I don't know what they do, but their cars screech when they accelerate and then make a banging/exploding sound when they slow down – like someone has let off fireworks. They wake me up at night, and they disturb me when I'm trying to read or watch TV. It's really affecting my life. No one expects the police to catch every single one, but if they'd just fine a few, word would get around. These horrible, ignorant, vile, selfish little bas*ards are basically bullies. They know they upset people, and like all bullies their behaviour will just escalate until someone stops them.

Yes! Also a Labour voter who hates antisocial behaviour.

I am a bit lost. How does driving an anti social car produce income? As a parent, I know these cars cost money rather than make money.

I'm fiercely left wing and sick of scummy antisocial neighbours. There's nothing I can do though. I can't raise my head above the parapet and start a little community group as the scum will target me and I'll get a brick through my window.

car modifications?

Not clearly all forms of offending but many are done to earn money somewhere

This sort of stuff is easily dismissed as low level nuisance but it absolutely isn’t depending on where you live.

I don’t know why they can’t prosecute / shut down any mechanics / garages who modify cars and confiscate them from anyone who does it to their own car. More needs to be done about these selfish morons .

If I have gas work done then it has to be by someone qualified so why not on a car?

Oh and bang goes your qualification if you illegally modify a vehicle

Absolutely. Noise and anti-social behaviour ruins lives. I have known two different people driven to suicide attempts by noisy neighbours, and I had a work colleague who ended up on anti-depressants and sleeping pills because of the vicious, ignorant, noisy scumbag who moved in next door. It is the poorest people who suffer the most.

See, read and get angry

While it relates to number plates its indicative of a series of passive governments who cant be bothered to get the basics right and allowed crime to flourish

https://www.pacts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Ghost-Plate-Inquiry-1.pdf

Woken up twice last night by the screeching, banging, exploding sound of modified cars. Sitting here now, at 10:50pm, with noise cancelling headphones on because some vile, selfish idiot is driving around the village in a car that sounds like an airplane coming in to land. I will have to close all the windows tonight and sleep with earbuds in my ears and even then I shall still be woken up.

I'm not unreasonable. I know young men like cars. If they work hard and save their money and buy a nice car, great, good luck to them. Enjoy. But it isn't fair to wake someone up at night or disturb them when they try to read or watch TV.

Have you rung the Police - I would use 999 as they are still there and probably drunk

I think you have to be careful about using 999 for things like that because most boy racers aren't drunk and it's one thing to be driving behind someone who is swerving all over the road or you've witnessed someone drinking all night in the pub and then they've got in a car because then you've got grounds to call 999, hearing a car isn't proof that anyone is drunk and it don't think it would go down well making a 999 call for a noise nuisance! I've been in Dappys position and you are not told to use 999 to report it, you are told to use 101.

I've been in that position at our last house and at times it could go on night after night. The police said to keep ringing on the 101 to report it but it'd put me through to a central call centre 26 miles away and that's if I could get through! The local police wouldn't come out at night and do anything to stop it!

On a Friday & Saturday there was one particular prick who went through a phase for months of driving around the district banging his exhaust pipe til 5am! They kept asking me to get his reg number, but by the time the little filth had sped past the house and I'd got to the window from my bed I had no chance. I actually said to the coppers, have I got to stand on the street in the dark to wait for him at night to get the reg number because you won't come and lie in wait for him? I was so annoyed because they'd regularly have the speed vans out in the day trying to get people doing 35 in a 30 but they wouldn't come out at night when the roads are free for all.

These young lads in cars now are mostly nowhere near mature enough to be behind the wheel! There's a reason these ridiculous modifications are illegal and one reason is because it's distracting for them driving when they are blasting themselves with noise! They are driving around like dickheads at great risk to themselves and everybody else. A few months back, a car full of these idiots raced up the hill and through a village near me, flew around a bend in the village on the wrong side of the road and hit another car! Luckily the guy in the other car wasn't seriously hurt but one of the lads in the offending car was killed and there was an outpouring of grief for him locally but toxic turds can still at times be heard racing up that hill. The kid that died got in a car knowing his mate doing the driving was over the limit on alcohol too, it's only a miracle more passengers in that car didn't die and that the people they hit didn't die.

And I get extremely frustrated with parents who just let their sons go out to play in cars at night! How do they go to bed at night and not worry! How can they sleep when they know that they run the high risk of getting that knock on the door! If I had an adolescent son with a car, I'd seize his keys at night and if he gets in anybody else's car whilst they race like an idiot, he won't get his keys back. Parents have a duty to try and stop it happening! A son of mine wouldn't be having a bang bang pipe and stupid modifications on his car either, like others have said how many of these cars have got valid insurance when they are putting stupid undeclared mods on them.

Or under the influence of nitrous oxide

I bought a house on a main-ish road so I expected some car noise however, we are on a 20mph stretch and the sheer amount of cars that whizz up here at at least 50 in their really noisy cars like you described is insane! Not mentioning the one person that goes up and down the road at various times with their hand on the horn the whole frikkin way. My 11 year old gets woken up a lot which isn't ideal but the baby is yet to go in her room and that, I can imagine, is going to be a nightmare for a while as some of them wake her up in our room which is round the back.

Why dont we treat acting like a twat in a car as a child protection issue - after all thats one of the many things it is.

Off to the kiddy fiddlers wing at Strangeways followed by a few decades of registering with the Police and not being allowed in the front seat let alone drive any vehicle