Christchurch boy racers shown on German TV

YOU CANT STOP US AND NEVER WILL!

As a German who lived in Ch'Ch for a year, I must say that the boy racers definitely were annoying. I lived on Latimer Sq and every night I heard them roaring past...and so many locals I spoke to were annoyed to a point where they were thinking of damaging the cars whenever they saw one in a parking lot.

Being back in Germany, it still puzzles me why noone takes action. I mean, it' not hard, is it? Enact a law that sets a noise-limit and enforce that law. That's the way it is done over here and it works. I live in central Hamburg where it is much more crowded than on Latimer Sq but no cars are interrupting my sleep at night.

As former Motel owners in Bealey Avenue and sold our business last Feb 2008 as our lives were destroyed by Boyracers in Christcurch central and we lost thousands & thousands of dollars doing so. We could not handle one more guest coming to our reception to tell us they got no SLEEP. We have moved to Australia and have been here for the past 9 months and are starting to get our lives back together. We are a family of 6 and 5 of us are tax payers but of course for the right country now AUSTRALIA where they have a harder attitude towards boy racers. And now get a nights sleep which we did not get for over 3 years living in Christchurch Central. We must say that we are very sad for our close friends in Christchurch that we have left behind nowing that they are still fighting this issue and have lost MONEY, SLEEP & GUEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We went to every meeting in Christchurch to fight the boy racers and every meeting was the same NOTHING DONE JUST WORDS NO ACTION. IT IS TIME SOMETHING WAS DONE !!!!!!! STOP THE CHILDREN WITH NOISEY FAST CARS CONTROLING SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CITY!!!!! BRING BACK SAFETY TO THE KIWIS AND ALL OUR FRIENDS THAT TRAVEL TO OUR COUNTRY FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD!!!!!!. We will always love New Zealand but it is to late for us we will never come back, Australia is our home.

Goverment loans is a bad idea, how is a forced loan from tax payers money to pay off unpaid fines going to fix the problem, we already have a large Government account deficit, this is rediculous!!

IRD should instead be given the power to take the money all parties not paying Ministry of Justine fines directly from employee wages. If the person is a bum or on a benefit then community service should be enforced. This would avoid all the stupid court costs incurred at present surrounding recovering unpaid fines.

I am on that programme, all of you older generation bagging boy racers is getting old. Most of these "boy racers" have a good job therefore they have a nice car etc, the only reason the go to jail is for driving offences. The government could do something eg: A piece of land to park at with a burnout pad etc. It definately makes it alot easier for the police to make their quota by driving around picking on young people. Obviously there is a few out there that can easily make it look bad, but in general chch has nothing to do and what better way to have fun driving around in a nice car meeting new people while having a cheap night, definately cheaper than going into town i think.

All this talk of providing a place for these morons to lay rubber.....what the hell is Ruapuna Raceway for??? If you can afford to cough up for fancy mag wheels and a rock concert sized sound system then you can afford to pay the fees to burn rubber at Ruapuna.

It's a shame, as Christchurch is generally a great place to live *BUT* the Central City area has really degraded over the past few years. By day it's a mostly bemused tourists trekking the ever-diminishing selection of shops while a few dodgy locals hang around outside. On weekend nights the place turns into a war zone as the bored young people trek in from the suburbs to get wasted and start trouble with each other or the police.

Boy racers and their passengers claiming to be victimized by police is a bit rich when a lot of them deliberately get their kicks from winding people up. If you're actually trying to go somewhere, it's just not worth the shortcut through the Central City on a weekend night for the hassle of idiots trying to race you at every set of lights, their tipsy, muffin-top girlfriends yelling random abuse, or having bottles chucked at your car by people on the street.

On the right hand side of the web page that you are directed too lists the media. You simply click that and they open up. It is in German because it is for a German Audience.

As an ex ChCh family living in the USA, we have come to see Christchurch in a new light. The daily NZ newspaper makes for bleak reading. Not a day goes by without reading of robberies, murders thefts and of course the boy racer problems. Many of the youth are completely directionless when it comes to their lives, and they are concerned only with themselves and not other members of the community. I bet these racers aren't doing burnouts or roaring up and down in their own streets.

Over here if you break the law, they will take your car and slap you in jail to cover the fines. Believe me it makes for a good deterrent.

Canterbury Tourism is now blaming the German TV crew and say that one documentary wont tarnish the image of the so called Garden City?? This is stupid and shocking.

Guys take a walk throuh CHC in the evening - weekend preferably - and tell me what you see. Look in the allyways, underground carparks, footpaths etc. I am sure you will change the name to the City of Drunkards. (I have never seen this sort of thing anywhere in the world not even in developing countries)!