Cruising Is Stupid
The police face a couple of unrelated issues on Washington Ave. Drunk people leaving clubs and taking disputes into the street. But another is dealing with cruisers that drive up and down the street being…stupid.
I’ve seen numerous people hanging out of windows, standing in an open sunroof and motorcyclists revving their engines. While the police are busy cracking down on the blocks west of 9th the cruisers are out east of 9th.
I’m not an expert in law enforcement but having tourists walking from their hotels to dinner witnessing such lawlessness just blocks away from the occupied zone can’t leave a positive impression.
– Steve Patterson
I do this on my bike. Should I be arrested?
After a eurocup game Portuguese cruising in Hamilton Ontario far surpasses this poor display.
The issue is race and fear of gun violence. Until America changes gun policy, more money will be wasted at the local level on dumb ideas like walling off Washington Avenue.
“Until America changes gun policy…”. You mean like Chicago? Boy, is that one great gun-grabbing experiment! (I’m sure you’re suggesting gun-bans far and wide.)
I agree.
Cruising may be “stupid”, but it’s not illegal, nor should it be. It’s a form of recreation, just like golf, riding Harleys or cycling – people who do it, enjoy it; people who don’t, can get irritated and / or “just don’t get it”. Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t mean you have a right to tell other people they can’t do it!
I hope that standing up in sunroofs and hanging out of car windows is illegal.
That part is, but “cruising” is the repetitive driving back-and-forth. I’m guessing, that if they’re on foot, crowding the sidewalks, it’s “good”, but if they’re in their cars, crowding the streets, it’s “bad”? The real problem is the idiots, being too loud, or worse, not the congestion.
we did it in i high school in arizona, it was fun then. i couldn’t imagine doing it now, but i’m usually in bed by 10pm. it has been made illegal in some places, but i’m not sure if that is worth the alderman’s time.
i don’t think anybody cares that they’re driving back and forth. obviously, the issue is the ignorant, disruptive behavior (yelling, honking, stopping traffic to hit on women, etc.). yes, noise is legal to an extent, but most places have noise ordinances. unfortunately they’re nearly impossible to enforce.
We have a noise ordinance. Like most ordinances in DT, it is unenforced.
Cruising has always popped up as a problem, supressed, and a few years later it pops up again, S. Lindbergh in the 1980’s, kid was killed in a street brawl in the early 80’s (so we can stop dragging race into, those were all white kids) the Landing in the late 1990s early 2000’s when several people were injured when someone could not control a spin out, and today we have this. Basically testosterone, angst and gasoline make a bad mix. I have seen it here in the states and English kids with scooters terrorizing pedestrians in North London. There is no cure, you just need to break it up and hope no one gets hurt till they grow out of it, if they never grow out of itthey buy Harleys and swarm small towns when they are 50 😉
I would agree Wilson…but for the fact that unlike the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s….guns are way too easy to secure and way to easy to use to show “manhood”. And please for you others, don’t be preaching gun rights, and yada, yada. They are, it is, they have and will continue to use them.
On another note, we would never have thought of cruising downtown when we were pups. So in a warped sense…welcome to success! (it still is stupid, and glad I grew out of it).
Cruising, as defined as going by a certain point multiple times in one set period of time without a good reason (ie you’re a pizza delivery man) is in fact illegal in some places. South Lindbergh is one such example.
We as teens used to cruise creve coeur park. Lots of loud music and fun. Either outlaw all teenagers or make the driving age 21.