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I do not know if their brain damage starts when they sit behind the wheel the first time, or if they are born as idiots. And I do not know if the problem is so huge in NZ, and especially here in Christchurch, because you can get your driver's license already at the age of 15. What I do know is that the name boy racers they are given by the police and the media is far too nice for those young men and women who terrorize complete neighbourhoods with their nightly races and car burn-outs, and not only while they are boys. Their dangerous driving goes on when they are adults. You will hear them drive up and down hills at high speed in low gears, or around corners with spinning wheels, and they think this sounds cool, as in fact it sounds like a grandmother not finding the correct gear. If you wonder why some carparks on the Summit Road look like potato fields after the harvest - this is one of the big achievements of those ***wits. The carparks were formerly tar-sealed but as those hoons used them for burn-outs and doing donuts the city saw no other way than to take the seal off from the middle, and now the huge majority of users have to wander through the dirt. But this has not stopped the brainless racers to race along the Summit Road at night, burn out cars and make them roll down the hills. In the gullies below the Gondola car wrecks can be spotted on a regular base. The hoons also terrorize neighbourhoods at the outskirts of the city, especially on the weekends. And they seem to love Bealey Avenue for night races. The police are trying to tighten up the game but there is still a lot to do, as the laws in NZ are ridiculous in this respect. They have just started to control cars with noisy exhausts, but there are still only a handful of control centres in the whole country. So just pay even more attention late at night, and never accept a race with an idiot beside you at the traffic lights. Either ignore them or if you feel threatened or watch dangerous driving, note the number plate and call the police.

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