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Hello and hey there...it's me again Mohd Shaffi Bin Mahadi (A124280)..

Blogging in now and ready to discuss the fifth question which is which group of people do you think that involved with illegal street racing.This question is quite easily I think because with your logical thinking immediately you will recognise the youngsters as the majority of person that involved with this kind of activity.This is because they full with the spirit to try everything that they encountered. The youngsters in this context refer to the people around the age of 17 to 23 years old. Izyan is correct when she said that kids from 14 years old of age are among this bunch of daredevils but i will like to keep this discussion to the scope where illegal street racers are the extreme people that totally involved in this activity. I don't think that 14 years old kids are massively involved in this activity and I do agree with Khairy when he said that the age will not come to 25 years due to the factors that he had explained in his post which is they will eventually realizes that what they are doing right now is just a waste.

As I have said youngsters are the one that involved massively in this activity because hey love to try and I bet all of my readers do understand what i'm trying to say. As the ‘freshy’ in everything of course we would like to try the thing that some people perceives as exciting and unfortunately illegal street racing is on the list. Factors such as reduce of the density of seriousness from the media and peer pressure are the things that contributed to the arisen of this problem as have discussed in my last post. When youngsters are exposed to this kind of exposure they are easily influenced by it and it brings us to the problem that we are facing right now.

For the car type of racers, it is the same. They love the thrill when they are in the speed and the situation where adrenalines are injected into their body. For them, the excitement is beyond everything but the consequences are over their head at that time. What matter is they have the pleasure of it. But normally youngsters that their own car are the one that have the tendency to involved in illegal modification that links them to illegal racing. Of course, when you have a fast car you will try to show off and illegal street racing derives from it.

So, illegal street racing is monopolized by the youngsters but there are some cases where the older people are involved in this activity. So, as an advice to the people that want to try this thing to just forget about it. The risk is too high to be carry rather than the excitement.

Before I forget Happy Independence Day and Happy Fasting to all readers..

Adios, till my next post....

hello there..its me again..mohamad khairy izwan (A123138)

well..happy fasting month for those who are muslims...

hm..even though it is first day of fasting..i don't have time to just sit around.well for the fifth question..which group of people do you think involve with illegal street racing. i do agree with izyan opinion that illegal motorcycle racing involve teenagers around 14 years old but i don't think they will reach age of 25 years old. the maximum age of those who are involved in my opinion is around 23 years old. that's because i think by the time they reach 24 years old..they will start to thinking that this act is just a waste of time and money..so they will start to move on leave those things behind.
as for cars..i don't think those who are involved is as young as 17. its because no matter how rich their parents are, they won't let their children to drive such a powerful car like nissan skyline or evolution lancer and if they allow their children to drive an ordinary car such as wira, waja and so on, i don't think they will let their children to do a modification to their cars. in my opinion those who are involved with illegal car racing always involve working people especially those who owns a workshop. sometimes it also involves ipt students because they live far away from their parents and sometimes they will ask money with an excuse to buy a books, paying fees, but at the end all of the money will go to their cars.

well, i think that's all for now..
till we meet again...
adios amigos
chow............

People! People! People!

Happy Independent's Day!

It's holiday people! But I'm stuck here answering our fifth question, what a day!

There are many complains involved people who join illegal street racing, but do you know who are they? What type of people? Young or old? and why?

For me, in illegal street racing for motorcycle, it involved teenagers around 14 to 25 years old. They involved themselves in illegal street racing because of many things such as family problem and being attracted by friends. Sometimes, family itself who just let their children lurking around and do their own stuff. In places like at a village, parent give permission to their children especially boys enjoy themselves and that's give them somekind of freedom to involved in illegal street racing. Being attracted by bad friends also dangerous. Teenagers thinks they understand them better than their parents and start to involved in illegal street racing.

As for cars, it involved people around 17 years old, up to matured people. That's because they got licences (I think!). It's also because they got money to modified their cars much better rather than motorcycle and there are many shops selling stuff for cars such as seats, powerful engine and the list go on and on... Being attracted by movies such as "To Fast To Furious" and "Kl Drift" gives somekind of inspiration towards people to involved in illegal street racing especially cars and motorcycle. And also this country highways also a good spot to 'drift' and express themselves or forget their problems.

Even teenagers themselves hate illegal street racing such as in http://www.malaysiakini.com/rentakini/60998. So, do not get yourself involved in illegal street racing if you can...

yan_byakuya

Nur Izyan Fakhruddin

A124981

treated or counter?

Cool isn't it?

What about this?

Hello! There has been a long time I di not wrote anything in this blog...I'm back!!!

What are the measures that had been taken by the authority to counter the problem?

I do agree with the guys opinion about countering illegal street racing in our country, but as always I have my own opinion about this topic. "It's the authority job to handle the cases. not us!" you maybe heard those line almost everyday, right? As I said before, people do not care what happen to there surrounding unless that bad thing happen to them.

There is many measures already taken by the authority to counter illegal steet racing problem, but few of them ever work. What happen? Is their actions not effective enough? It's not the authority, it's the people involved in illegal street racing itself at fault here...

Having "speed trap" at almost every roads and highways is one of the measures taken by the authority. There is reported cases involved illegal street racing especially in highways. Eventhough measures taken such as fine and warning and being lock up, there still many street racer 'haunting' our country roads.

Another measures taken by the authority is what we called 'road-block'. There is many places that being the 'hot-spot' to become illegal street racing home base. There is always police there, that's for sure. Sometimes the illegal street racer can get away with it and sometimes they can't. That's because the police is smarter than them. Their vehicle much cooler than illegal street racer vehicle.

Simply put, wherever there is illegal street racing happen, there is the authority to counter them.

yan_byakuya

Nur Izyan Fakhruddin

A124981

There is an action, but is it effective??? Hmm.. Let's think about it!

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Wan Fadli Hazilan Wan Rosmidi (A122863)

Alooohaa..... Meeting me again...

One-Fudley is back...

Hello guys... long time no see... Seems like there are a lot of things need to be discuss as we keep on thinking about our interesting topic which is “Illegal Street racing”. As we can see, there are plenty of comments that have been made by our colleague regarding this issue. The thing that catches my eye and makes me wanna go further into our discussion is the issue of the measures taken by authority to “combat” this problem as being said by Khairi in his post. When looking into this issue, there are one question pops up in my mind. Guess what??? Hmm... Are they effective or not???

Now, let’s get into my point of view. Legalising street racing is not the solution. The government recently proposed turning street racing into a tourist attraction. They believe that the Mat Rempit (street racers) who partakes in such activities is natural performers, and that the stunts they perform can be a tourist magnet. Besides that, they even suggested that certain roads be closed off at specified times to allow these street racers to indulge in their passion. They reason that if roads can be closed in order to hold a Pasar Malam, it would be alright to close them for street racing as well.

They also think that it wouldn't do any good to hold such activities in remote Sepang or Batu Tiga, because the distance would discourage spectators from gathering. If we think deeply their suggestions are certainly worth considering. However, there is a difference between closing roads to hold a Pasar Malam and closing roads for street racing. They are completely different activities and must therefore be managed in different ways.

Other than that, there are also people who approaches street racing with the idea that it is a recreational activity for youngsters. The idea that street racing is fine so long as it is held at an appropriate time and place certainly seems to offer an opportunity for a better solution than the hard-line tactics currently employed by the police. However, there are some points that need to be considered. If the matter is not handled properly, it could send the wrong message and cause street racers to think that everything they do is sanctioned.

The noise caused by illegal street racing affects the peace of the neighbourhood and disturbs the lives of residents. This is the reason why citizens dislike street racing. Before deciding which roads to close to accommodate these street racers, the authorities ought to take into consideration the effect it might have on nearby residential areas, the activities of business establishments, and traffic conditions in the area. This means that they should make sure that the location they finally pick is a secluded one, and it's the reason why they wanted to open the race course to street races. Firstly, its' far away from any residential areas; secondly, it's safe.

From my opinion the responsible parties should consider working together with these disciplined racers to organise and manage weekend street races under safe conditions. This will reduce the number of accidents and help ensure that innocents are not affected. However, other racers might not be able to hold to the higher standards and disciplines required for road racing. They might only be in it for the adrenaline rush, and lack the discipline or the expertise to make it in amateur racing. They should work together with the parties involve to set up short, mid and long term plans for promoting and regulating recreational racing activities.

Organisers of such events must adhere to safety standards. It would be best if an insurance company were willing to offer coverage for the event. Accident prevention and response measures, as well as responsibility for any that happen, must be determined. In addition, steps must be taken stop and prevent illegal betting from subverting such activities.

To add more, government should work together with organisations experienced with racing events to come up with professional regulations for street racing. They must come up with a racing activity that is safe, has a shallow learning curve, and to the taste of the young street racers. Simply closing a few roads won't solve anything. They should work together with the Sepang race course and the Formula One organisers.

Hmm... Confusing, confusing, confusing... Such a complicated things right??? We do understand the need for speed, but untill when this deasease will disapear in our world??? Only God knows that...

Alright guys, such a long discussion, I think that's all for now... See you when I see you in the next session... Feel free to comment...

Adiosta!!!

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sToP kIlLiNg YoUrSeLf...

Hola and hye everbody....("P)

It`s me, Mohd Shaffi Bin Mahadi(A124280)...We almost come to the end of our discussion and this post, as Khairy have posted his comment..It's about the measures taken by authority to counter this problem...We are discussing about what is actually that the authority have done to annihilate this problem once and for all and whether it is effective or not....

As Khairy have mentioned about the actions taken by authority such as setting up a road block and patrolling at the roads. It is important for the authority to observe for this activity. It to ensure that they know that they are been watching. Besides that, the government also had legislate a law that allow the authorities to detain and charge not only to those people who are who were involved in the racing but also those who watch the race. This measurement is to avoid people getting involved in such kind of activity. If we let the people that went to watch illegal street racing just like that it will be as we are releasing the source of provocation to the construction of this activity. Simply says, less people interested in it the lesser people who are going to join it.

The measurement looks like there is enough actions taken but is it effective.We got the people to observe, to seize and plus the law that supported us but where is the loopholes? There is a loopholes since the problem is still there just like Khairy said. From my opinion, I believe that the execution is not enough. Eventhough if we have all policemen to watch the road all the time, it will not do anything if all of them are fall asleep all the time. The analogy is to highlight that full commitment is one of the aspect that is essential to ensure this thing to work out.

Besides that I do thing that the law is not heavier enough to counter this problem. If we made it more stricter, it will force them to step back. For example, if we enacted a law that that provides an imprisonment to almost 20 years for those people that involved illegal street racing, I bet they will think a thousand times if they want to get involve in this activity.

Okay then,that's it for now and wait for my next post......("P)

action taken to combat....effective????

Ola….its me again,

mohamad khairy izwan bin mohamad zamani (A123138)

well, since not much for me to do this weekend, so I decided to write on this blog. Well previously I’ve talked about the effects of the illegal street racing towards the public that we all know is a very hazardous. Hm..for now I’m going to write on what the authorities had done to oppose this illegal act. I bet everyone knows that lot of measures had been taken by the authorities to counter the problem. One of the actions taken is by setting up a road block and also patrolling at the roads that was identified as a venue for the race. Not only that, the government also took a drastic measure by legislating a law that allow the authorities especially police to detain and charge not only the those who were involved in the racing but also those who watch the race at the side of the street. Furthermore the government had also legislate an existing law regarding safety on road by penalize those who were arrested on charge of committing an illegal racing with heavier punishment. Well, so far, we had seen that the government had taken lot of action to deal with this problem but the question is that does these actions effective? Well, frankly speaking I don’t think that the measures taken by the authorities are effective and why did I say that? Well, the answer lies in front of our own eyes. The problem is still there. No matter how many road-blocks and patrols take place we still can see a racing take place. These illegal racers seem do not care even though they realize that they will face a heavy punishment if they got caught. Why does this happen even though lot of actions taken by the authorities? There’s only one answer to this question and that is these measures taken by the authorities to combat this problem are not effective and a new and more effective solution need to be think of. Well..i’ve been writing a lot here and it seems I need to go now. Till we meet again guys…chow sin chee….