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Kate: This is a calmer and more serene scene than the last two posts. Happy that no-one was killed; seems lucky, doesn’t it.No Cruising Please We’re Sick of You
By Michelle | June 30, 2010 | Filed Under Daily Photo 6 Comments
Snapped today on my mobile phone – this is one of the new ‘No Cruising’ signs that have gone up around the four avenues that run around Christchurch’s inner city. Christchurch is well known for ‘boy racers’ cruising en masse around the inner city streets. If you live within a 2 km radius of the 4 avenues you will have been kept awake at some point with the high powered engines and the doof doof doof of their stereos (and the screeching sound of their burnouts). I pity the moteliers that have had to try and make a living on Bealey Avenue – who wants to stay somewhere that noisy? So Christchurch is so fed up with the noise that cruising is now banned in the inner city. Car enthusiasts (that’s what they like to call themselves) are not impressed. Well I was not impressed at by being woken up at 4am by three of them doing over 120 km in a 50 k zone being followed by a patrol car (listen up little boys, you are killing yourselves and others – so grow up, you are not in the movies, this is not a dukes of hazard episode, you are pathetic).
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July 1st, 2010 at 1:09 am
Uhhhhhh – ahhhhh – love the BLUE lighting!
July 1st, 2010 at 7:15 am
I never seen those signs yet here in New York.
July 1st, 2010 at 9:21 am
Let’s just hope it works…
Strange / eerie glow on the sign there. The result of the image processor on your mobile phone or photoshop editing? Either way adds a nice touch.
July 1st, 2010 at 11:58 am
I’m so glad to see that somebody is finally doing something…well done, Chch! I live on a dead-end road with a 90-degree turn just past the house and still get the doof doof and the burnouts. I wonder what that says about NZ youth?
July 1st, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Bettyl, I feel your pain! I think what it says about NZ Youth and there are some of them that have no consideration for other people, and a total lack of empathy.
July 1st, 2010 at 1:53 pm
PJ, a bit of photo shopping – and the mobile phone.