New York Post - If the looting of retailers, rampant hard drugs, and a homeless population growing more quickly 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 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.
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.
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.
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The rest of this story, with video clips of the shit these morons
are doing in broad daylight can be found here:
"mucks"?
ReplyDeleteI think mooks is the preferred.
Note the quote "It's a cultural thing."
ReplyDeleteYes, I imagine Norwegian neighborhoods in particular have been hard-hit....