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‘Fast & Furious’-style terror hits Bay Area: ‘Sideshow’ drivers block roads, pull guns, do donuts
NY Post ^ | 07/13/2023 | Michael Kaplan

Posted on 07/13/2023 5:31:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

If the looting of retailers, hard drugs run rampant and a homeless population growing quicker than the regular one were not enough to make the Bay Area city of Oakland unlivable, add the challenge of so-called “sideshows.”

Counter to the the carnival-inspired name sideshows have proven to be a menace to law-abiding citizens. Despite trying, the Oakland Police Department, which endured budget cuts, has not stopped the high-speed hoedowns.

These days, sideshows are street spectacles that involve participants suddenly shutting down four-way intersections and even major bridges, and using the expanses of asphalt to put on displays of cars, often with blacked-out windows, doing extreme donuts. Sideshows — which began benignly, in the early 1980s, with car aficionados gathering to peacefully show off their beloved rides next to a carnival in the Foothill neighborhood of Oakland — evolved into impromptu, dangerous and menacing meet-ups.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; banglist; bayarea; california; crime; dystopia; fast; furious; sideshow
I didn't even have to look....
1 posted on 07/13/2023 5:31:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oakland............’nuff said...........


2 posted on 07/13/2023 5:33:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Caltrops


3 posted on 07/13/2023 5:34:30 AM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anarchy in cities run by the Jackass party.


4 posted on 07/13/2023 5:35:36 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Global Warming crowd strangely silent


5 posted on 07/13/2023 5:35:53 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Coming soon to a city near you


6 posted on 07/13/2023 5:38:59 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What? Wild partiers like back when the cowboys would show up in town after the big cattle drive….yeahhaaaaww! pew pew pew!


7 posted on 07/13/2023 5:41:56 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s why Black Bike Week was canceled.


8 posted on 07/13/2023 5:42:58 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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What? Wild partiers like back when the cowboys would show up in town after the big cattle drive….yeahhaaaaww! pew pew pew!

Especially when they rustled cattle through The Vatican.

9 posted on 07/13/2023 5:44:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome

I wish I were a welder. Those things are pricey.


10 posted on 07/13/2023 6:11:28 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Y’all keep voting shitlib democrat.


11 posted on 07/13/2023 6:28:21 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: dfwgator

Kinky!


12 posted on 07/13/2023 6:32:32 AM PDT by Jeff Vader ( )
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To: BozoTexino
I wish I were a welder. Those things are pricey.

No-weld caltrops

You can also braze things together.

13 posted on 07/13/2023 6:35:49 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Ping Pong balls and sheetrock screws require no technical ability


14 posted on 07/13/2023 6:40:13 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: nuconvert

“Coming soon to a city near you”

Not in this part of Florida.

Our Sheriff would have those youths in jail before they made the second lap.

We do still have problems with boys shooting signs on the hard road leaving town.


15 posted on 07/13/2023 6:45:53 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think we all know it’s considered racist if we say anything.

How many problems are there in society, in which people are afraid to say anything, because of fear of the leftists saying we are racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, etc???


16 posted on 07/13/2023 7:40:18 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Saw pictures of this happening in South Africa, 5-7 years ago.

Which way did the fad travel?

Do people damage their own cars for this, or steal them?


17 posted on 07/13/2023 9:40:08 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: dfwgator

Actually cowboys weren’t allowed to carry guns on cattle drives. Too much of a liability.


18 posted on 07/14/2023 1:13:10 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hoedowns? Oh, they must be hillbillies.


19 posted on 07/14/2023 1:43:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind
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