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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Oakland............’nuff said...........
Caltrops
Anarchy in cities run by the Jackass party.
Global Warming crowd strangely silent
Coming soon to a city near you
What? Wild partiers like back when the cowboys would show up in town after the big cattle drive….yeahhaaaaww! pew pew pew!
It’s why Black Bike Week was canceled.
Especially when they rustled cattle through The Vatican.
I wish I were a welder. Those things are pricey.
Y’all keep voting shitlib democrat.
Kinky!
You can also braze things together.
Ping Pong balls and sheetrock screws require no technical ability
“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.
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???
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?
Actually cowboys weren’t allowed to carry guns on cattle drives. Too much of a liability.
Hoedowns? Oh, they must be hillbillies.
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