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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 02:17 PM
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 02:26 PM
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Warning: We will find you.
We will crush you
We will fine you to the maximum.
We will have CLEAN AIR in the USA.


oh shaddop!
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 03:06 PM
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Yeah I saw one sitting on an onramp out here in Irvine/Tusin.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 03:21 PM
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eh i already get fined max possible for traffic violations. why the hell not for everything else too.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 05:31 PM
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I chained that smog sniffer to my REPU bumper and dragged that b!tch into a ditch.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by DriveFast7
I chained that smog sniffer to my REPU bumper and dragged that b!tch into a ditch.
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 08:02 PM
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anyone have a picture of the box?
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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 09:11 PM
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 12:00 AM
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i know in Houston because my cousin who has a sr'd 240 told me he just goes through them in neutral...i dont know if that works but ill give it a shot.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 01:31 AM
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its a van.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 01:49 AM
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been thinking about it and our air (norCal)isn't as polluted as your air, especially in the LA area. We might not see these up here.

http://www.planetizen.com/node/17517




They're most likely trying to catch the gross pulluters.

We still see some blue. The best you can do is avoid them.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 01:52 AM
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From what i learn its better to cruise (feet on gas) through the smog box then to do any deceleration, because deceleration cause the car to run rich.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 02:05 AM
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I saw one of these on the 405 onramp near Huntington Beach Blvd about a month ago. There was a white van and a couple of small white boxes on tripods set up near the side of the road. At first it looked like surveying equipment, but at second glance you could see what looked like a camera pointed at the rear license plate.

I've also heard the rumor that CHP might sit near these devices and pull over cars that look like they are illegally modified. In the story I heard, a yellow Z06 corvette was taken from the owner because it had some sort of forced induction and the cats were removed. Supposedly the owner was still making payments on the car even after it was destroyed.

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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 04:49 AM
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Oh ****, now WAN really WILL be buying FC's to junk them
oh snap!!! Theres a bunch of cheap FCs for sale in my area. I can make a killing out of this! I'll be doing mother earth a favor by junking all FCs!!!
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by scotty305
I saw one of these on the 405 onramp near Huntington Beach Blvd about a month ago. There was a white van and a couple of small white boxes on tripods set up near the side of the road. At first it looked like surveying equipment, but at second glance you could see what looked like a camera pointed at the rear license plate.

I've also heard the rumor that CHP might sit near these devices and pull over cars that look like they are illegally modified. In the story I heard, a yellow Z06 corvette was taken from the owner because it had some sort of forced induction and the cats were removed. Supposedly the owner was still making payments on the car even after it was destroyed.

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they cant just take a car like that. they had to have a reason to take the corvette and destroy it in fact it was destroyed. something like previous convictions for street racing or previous convictions for being a gross polluter.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 11:42 AM
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oh snap!!! Theres a bunch of cheap FCs for sale in my area. I can make a killing out of this! I'll be doing mother earth a favor by junking all FCs!!!
Leave my ******* parts cars alone!

Originally Posted by scotty305
I saw one of these on the 405 onramp near Huntington Beach Blvd about a month ago. There was a white van and a couple of small white boxes on tripods set up near the side of the road. At first it looked like surveying equipment, but at second glance you could see what looked like a camera pointed at the rear license plate.

I've also heard the rumor that CHP might sit near these devices and pull over cars that look like they are illegally modified. In the story I heard, a yellow Z06 corvette was taken from the owner because it had some sort of forced induction and the cats were removed. Supposedly the owner was still making payments on the car even after it was destroyed.

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I bet $100 this is what the alingment guy was talking about. But when he told me about it, he said his friend.

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they cant just take a car like that. they had to have a reason to take the corvette and destroy it in fact it was destroyed. something like previous convictions for street racing or previous convictions for being a gross polluter.

Word.

the only thing i can think of, is he was really caught street racing. and they threw in there about the whole non-cat/smog thing. It sounds so rediculous to crush a car for not having cats. i mean, newer cars burn thousands of times cleaner than smog exempt cars, even with out cats.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Brismo7
Word.

the only thing i can think of, is he was really caught street racing. and they threw in there about the whole non-cat/smog thing. It sounds so rediculous to crush a car for not having cats. i mean, newer cars burn thousands of times cleaner than smog exempt cars, even with out cats.
think about it this way. for no other reason they cant take a car from someone that has paid for it for the sole reason of the potential of being sued.

boost and no cats is not just cause. now if they had told him he needs to fix it and he chose not to thats one thing. but the first time around they cant do that
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 12:19 PM
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even with street racing you are given 3 chances. first time is massive fees and impound second time is the same and arrest IIRC and the third time is crushy crush.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 01:32 PM
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really? they give you 3 chances before(well i guess two chances and the third is crushy time) they crush your car?

haha, well, those dumb ***** deserve it then. i never knew that.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by 2cute
even with street racing you are given 3 chances. first time is massive fees and impound second time is the same and arrest IIRC and the third time is crushy crush.
Do you have proof of this? Every car I have seen crushed has been a result of stolen parts being on the car.
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Old Feb 29, 2008 | 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by BackyardSog
Do you have proof of this? Every car I have seen crushed has been a result of stolen parts being on the car.
if your refering to the 6 cars in cupertino then yes they were crushed for having stolen parts. im refering to a law passed in SD.

this kinda touches on what im refering to however this says the second time they impound click me

and the spectator ordinance in detail "The Spectator Ordinance makes it a misdemeanor to be knowingly present at illegal speed contests and exhibitions of speed, punishable with up to 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine." click me

the original task force and laws were passed under the name of "drag-net" but i really cant find any more detailed specifics since it was started so many years ago.

regardless it started down here in SD and then spread to other counties in CA.

as i read more it is confirmed that they cant just take and crush a car for "illegal parts" the cars that were crushed had STOLEN parts on them or had met the criteria under "drag-net" which entailed more than enough warnings about it
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Old Mar 1, 2008 | 02:17 AM
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never been caught up...and didn't know they did that ****...i knew and seen them to do it on the side streets
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Old Mar 1, 2008 | 02:29 AM
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oh snap!!! Theres a bunch of cheap POS FDs for free in my area. I can make a killing out of this! I'll be doing mother earth a favor by junking all these POS FDs!!!
FIXED more of the truth!!!
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Old Mar 1, 2008 | 12:51 PM
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Old Mar 1, 2008 | 12:54 PM
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dude look at those ears we know its you and that dude who dumped you!!!

Maybe you didnt pay the bitch with all that cash you got for scraping your FC.....

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