Boy Racer Bollocks

For starters, lets get away from the 'boy racer' crap. The whole 'boy racer' thing was about wannabes with Japanese penis extensions showing off.

They were a bunch of virgins who couldn't drive well enough to get into a sports driving club and didn't have the car/money to play with the real enthusiasts and collectors.

The above are the once that would be punished the most by car crushing and lets face it- most of us who have been woken up by a big bore exhaust and a wanky blowdown valve at 330 am would love to see car and occupants turned into spam in a can!

The problem has gone way beyond those fools and has more to do with the cellphone than the car. The problem is groups of lawless thugs and louts who use the power of text broadcasts to gather in groups too large to be readily policed when they inevitably go feral. Of course cars provide the mobility factor and entertain the morons with burnouts. THESE cars are disposable shitboxes and crunching them more likely would provide some kind of badge of honour amongst the knuckle-dragging fraternity.

So let's get away from cars and look to the REAL problem. Lawlessness, willful destruction of property, intimidation, trespass, offensive behavior, assault and so on. If you think these turds are poor misunderstood yoof who just need somewhere to play (at our expense) you have not had 300+ go feral outside your property as many I know have.

Now these offenses need no new laws to deal with them. What the police need are new tools and the direction to use them.

The good, old-fashioned water cannon is most effective in breaking up a mob. Rioting is no fun when you are drenched. Especially in a Christchurch winter and more so when OC has been injected into the water jet.

I can personally vouch for the effectiveness of 'tear gas' having been on the end of a good dose of it in training, however, I am uncomfortable about using it in residential areas where innocent can be affected.

There are several new tools available for crowd dispersal, one is sonic, this one uses a laser and the other uses microwaves to cause pain.

To use these, we will need a fast-reation unit and, of course, an armed support team to keep the little darlings away from the hardware.

Most of the little arseholes would have watched 'Jackass', so should know what a bean-bag baton round will do to you!