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Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS
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I've been in contact with individuals who want to take their experience to the media. We are trying to compile all first-hand incidents regarding the situation and people's experiences of being an automotive enthusiast. Our goal is to present the facts and also to present the potential positive impacts on the community that we have. We want the public to know that we're not gangbangers, we're just regular people united by a passion for automobiles. Whether it makes a difference or not, it's worth a try. Election season is coming up and city officials want the best PR as possible.
This is what you can do to help out: - If you have gotten a VI recently, post about your experience with the police officers. Were they polite/nice or assholes? Were they knowledgeable of the law (MVA)? What was the conversation about?
- Post about your experience of being an automotive enthusiast. Having a passion for cars, has it changed your life for the better (or for the worse)? Is this a (relatively) safe community for teens?
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gonna say: before everybody just goes running to the media, please, please verse yourselves with the in's and out's of the MVA, and what potential rules you/your friends are in contravention of - specifically section 7
Motor Vehicle Act Regulations
at the end of the day, the law states that your exhaust cannot be "widened or opened", or modified to increase volume, that your camber/caster/toe can not be modified to the point where it can be visually noted as having been modified, the list goes on. if you do not fall into any of these categories, then by all means, you have a case and an argument on your hands. otherwise, please just shut up and let the people who actually have a case take it further. last thing we need right now is to be viewed as a community that bitches and moans when we're the ones not following the MVA, and the VPD have (vendetta or not) decided to pursue that to the full extent. my car is modified, and if the police are targeting modified cars to the letter of the law, I'm not going to keep tooting along pretending I'm in the category of people who are simply getting picked on for zero apparent reason
otherwise, power to you BIC_BAWS, I hope you guys can shut this thing down - complete bullshit that it even had to get this far, and I hope the instigator(s) of all this have learnt to just sit the fuck down and take the consequences of their own actions and decisions