shanehandley
03-03-03, 09:33 PM
This following letter was in our local newspaper, is this an insult or what! surely the police wud prefer us to spend money on our cars other than drugs etc and mugin old ppl! wot do ya rekon.
ROADSTERS BLIGHT SEAFRONT
It was quite a pleasant Sunday evening so I decided to take a stroll along Torquay seafront.
There was hardly a soul about. But then the peace was shattered. The sound of a car, its exhaust bellowing as if it was full of holes and music (I use the word loosely) pounding from its stereo, sped past.
Then another followed. Followed by another and another.
The "boy racers" were in town.
And it seemed that the prom was an ideal meeting place - and race track - for them.
As I turned round at the Pavilion to head back to the Recreation Ground and home a long line of souped-up noisy cars raced from one end of the seafront and back again.
I have never been to Brands Hatch - but this was the nearest thing to it.
It seems the racers - they're the ones that spend thousands of pounds doing up the likes of clapped-out Vauxhall Novas and also take great delight in driving through the town centre, windows blackened out, music pounding and baseballs caps on back to front - are a regular nuisance on the seafront these days.
Mark Buck, manager of the Marina Restaurant overlooking the harbour, said: "It is the same every night here.
"They park in the lay-by opposite the theatre. Then they just go backwards and forwards along the seafront.
"They cause us no real problems but it is a bit of a nuisance especially when our customers leave in the evenings.
"They rev up their engines and their stereos are going."
Guests at the Torbay Hotel, just across the road, have been losing some of their beauty sleep because of the roadsters.
A worker at the hotel said: "We do not get real problems with them but we do get some complaints from guests about the noise at night."
Police are not aware of the problem and have had no complaints.
A spokesman said: "It is the first we have heard about it."
He revealed there were some problems with the racers last year. They were using the Beacon Quay car park as a rendezvous.
And there were also problems at the Broadsands car park in Paignton last year after complaints from residents.
But officers acted and the problems were resolved.
Perhaps, they need to take similar action on Torquay seafront.
ROADSTERS BLIGHT SEAFRONT
It was quite a pleasant Sunday evening so I decided to take a stroll along Torquay seafront.
There was hardly a soul about. But then the peace was shattered. The sound of a car, its exhaust bellowing as if it was full of holes and music (I use the word loosely) pounding from its stereo, sped past.
Then another followed. Followed by another and another.
The "boy racers" were in town.
And it seemed that the prom was an ideal meeting place - and race track - for them.
As I turned round at the Pavilion to head back to the Recreation Ground and home a long line of souped-up noisy cars raced from one end of the seafront and back again.
I have never been to Brands Hatch - but this was the nearest thing to it.
It seems the racers - they're the ones that spend thousands of pounds doing up the likes of clapped-out Vauxhall Novas and also take great delight in driving through the town centre, windows blackened out, music pounding and baseballs caps on back to front - are a regular nuisance on the seafront these days.
Mark Buck, manager of the Marina Restaurant overlooking the harbour, said: "It is the same every night here.
"They park in the lay-by opposite the theatre. Then they just go backwards and forwards along the seafront.
"They cause us no real problems but it is a bit of a nuisance especially when our customers leave in the evenings.
"They rev up their engines and their stereos are going."
Guests at the Torbay Hotel, just across the road, have been losing some of their beauty sleep because of the roadsters.
A worker at the hotel said: "We do not get real problems with them but we do get some complaints from guests about the noise at night."
Police are not aware of the problem and have had no complaints.
A spokesman said: "It is the first we have heard about it."
He revealed there were some problems with the racers last year. They were using the Beacon Quay car park as a rendezvous.
And there were also problems at the Broadsands car park in Paignton last year after complaints from residents.
But officers acted and the problems were resolved.
Perhaps, they need to take similar action on Torquay seafront.