Re: Street outlaws tonight
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Much better season this season than the previous. More focus on actual racing. But if I have to hear one more time on how "Big Cheese" spent the last two years & his life saving building his car I am going to puke. We get it. We all spend a ton of money on our cars but how many time do we have to hear him say that?
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Re: Street outlaws tonight
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07/01/14 04:01 PM
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Much better season this season than the previous. More focus on actual racing. But if I have to hear one more time on how "Big Cheese" spent the last two years & his life saving building his car I am going to puke. We get it. We all spend a ton of money on our cars but how many time do we have to hear him say that?
I don't understand why anyone would spend their life savings on a race car either. What a stupid financial decision unless it helps grow his new business somehow.
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Re: Street outlaws tonight
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07/01/14 05:02 PM
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Like I said last season, still not street cars
I like how they took the bug out on a trailer and then cops are coming after them. This after he drove it on the street last season the same way as it is now
AND, like has been said over and over.........they don't claim they are street cars. Only street RACED cars. I don't think you are trying to pass anything off as street legal when it has fender exit exhausts.
Monte
You can always put sidepipes on it like Todd M. does.LOL.
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Re: Street outlaws tonight
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07/03/14 01:26 PM
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"Illegal" Street Racing Show Shuts Down Highway With Police Help Posted: Jul 02, 2014 5:35PM CDT Dana Hertneky, News 9
A show about illegal street racing in Oklahoma is raising some serious red flags, this after the show's producers close a major US Highway. And News 9 has learned a local police department was helping them.
State Highway 81 in Union City was shut down for about 10 hours Saturday night while the crew taped the show. Burn out marks and a black oily substance still remained on the highway Wednesday.
The Discovery Channel show Street Outlaws is said to be about illegal racing on the streets of Oklahoma City, but in reality they were shooting about 20 miles outside OKC in Union City.
When News 9 photojournalist Cody McDonell showed up with a camera Saturday night he was told he had to leave. A guy wearing a T-shirt flashed a badge and identified himself as a "police officer in Oklahoma".
"It is a permitted area. It is closed," he said.
And even though News 9 was on a public street, a Union City police officer stepped in and threatened to throw our photojournalist in jail.
"If you don't want to leave I will put you under arrest," he said.
Officers on the scene said since this was permitted area we were not allowed to be there. On Wednesday Union City Police Chief Robert Ague said we were creating a hazard. Share this Story TweetFacebookEmail
"Creates a hazard for the motoring public and whenever you have vehicles sitting off on the side of the road it creates a traffic hazard," he said.
OSU Associate Professor and First Amendment expert Dr. Joey Senat says, in either case, we were well within our rights as a news organization to be there.
Those who live in the area say the racing on the highway has become a common occurrence.
"There for a while it was every week for a couple weeks," said Jenny Shieber.
Shieber says she has no serious issues with the closing of the highway. But the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) says they received complaints from drivers on Saturday night.
A permit says the show's producers paid $25 to block off the highway beginning at 6 p.m. Ague says they did not notify the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) or OHP.
"Anytime you would shut down a US Highway that was designated a commercial motor vehicle oversized road route without prior approval, we really frown on that," said Lt. Betsy Randolph with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Randolph says this case brings up a host of concerns.
"If the roadway is going to be shut down we really would rather it not be for illegal purposes as in illegal street racing," said Randolph.
In addition, Randolph says they don't believe there was the proper traffic notices or alternative routes set up. And there's also the issue of the mess left behind.
"The burden on cleaning up the highway on this sort of event goes back to the taxpayers," said Randolph.
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Re: Street outlaws tonight
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07/03/14 04:42 PM
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Sure would like to see a Mopar powered Mopar in the mix.
What's your set-up. Is it still the 502? Procharged is about all i can find through a quick search online.
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Re: Street outlaws tonight
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07/04/14 12:31 AM
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"Illegal" Street Racing Show Shuts Down Highway With Police Help Posted: Jul 02, 2014 5:35PM CDT Dana Hertneky, News 9
A show about illegal street racing in Oklahoma is raising some serious red flags, this after the show's producers close a major US Highway. And News 9 has learned a local police department was helping them.
State Highway 81 in Union City was shut down for about 10 hours Saturday night while the crew taped the show. Burn out marks and a black oily substance still remained on the highway Wednesday.
The Discovery Channel show Street Outlaws is said to be about illegal racing on the streets of Oklahoma City, but in reality they were shooting about 20 miles outside OKC in Union City.
When News 9 photojournalist Cody McDonell showed up with a camera Saturday night he was told he had to leave. A guy wearing a T-shirt flashed a badge and identified himself as a "police officer in Oklahoma".
"It is a permitted area. It is closed," he said.
And even though News 9 was on a public street, a Union City police officer stepped in and threatened to throw our photojournalist in jail.
"If you don't want to leave I will put you under arrest," he said.
Officers on the scene said since this was permitted area we were not allowed to be there. On Wednesday Union City Police Chief Robert Ague said we were creating a hazard. Share this Story TweetFacebookEmail
"Creates a hazard for the motoring public and whenever you have vehicles sitting off on the side of the road it creates a traffic hazard," he said.
OSU Associate Professor and First Amendment expert Dr. Joey Senat says, in either case, we were well within our rights as a news organization to be there.
Those who live in the area say the racing on the highway has become a common occurrence.
"There for a while it was every week for a couple weeks," said Jenny Shieber.
Shieber says she has no serious issues with the closing of the highway. But the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) says they received complaints from drivers on Saturday night.
A permit says the show's producers paid $25 to block off the highway beginning at 6 p.m. Ague says they did not notify the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) or OHP.
"Anytime you would shut down a US Highway that was designated a commercial motor vehicle oversized road route without prior approval, we really frown on that," said Lt. Betsy Randolph with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Randolph says this case brings up a host of concerns.
"If the roadway is going to be shut down we really would rather it not be for illegal purposes as in illegal street racing," said Randolph.
In addition, Randolph says they don't believe there was the proper traffic notices or alternative routes set up. And there's also the issue of the mess left behind.
"The burden on cleaning up the highway on this sort of event goes back to the taxpayers," said Randolph.
This doesn't sound very much different than any other scripted set like Hollywood would do for some movie they are shooting with the exception it appears that the producers of this show did not extend the courtesy to the locals to provide adequate notice of the area being shut down for X amount of time or provide information for alternative routing and notify "all" of the proper authorities of their intentions??
As for the clean up.....it would be nice if the show producers would clean up after themselves so as to not hair lip everyone and not appear to be disrespectful to public property (the road). It would certainly look better to the community around this shut down site if they did..... They really should work with the authorities if they want to continue the show because all the local government has to do is say NO and they are out of business. Then they'll have to find a way to sneak all the test hits and street races in without "really" getting in trouble....
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Re: Street outlaws tonight
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07/04/14 03:30 PM
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Sure would like to see a Mopar powered Mopar in the mix.
What's your set-up. Is it still the 502? Procharged is about all i can find through a quick search online.
It is a new combo, all aluminum 528ci wedge. Gonna run this combo this season. A Hemi is already in the works with a F3 for next year.
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Re: Street outlaws tonight
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07/05/14 02:27 PM
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"Illegal" Street Racing Show Shuts Down Highway With Police Help Posted: Jul 02, 2014 5:35PM CDT Dana Hertneky, News 9
A show about illegal street racing in Oklahoma is raising some serious red flags, this after the show's producers close a major US Highway. And News 9 has learned a local police department was helping them.
State Highway 81 in Union City was shut down for about 10 hours Saturday night while the crew taped the show. Burn out marks and a black oily substance still remained on the highway Wednesday.
The Discovery Channel show Street Outlaws is said to be about illegal racing on the streets of Oklahoma City, but in reality they were shooting about 20 miles outside OKC in Union City.
When News 9 photojournalist Cody McDonell showed up with a camera Saturday night he was told he had to leave. A guy wearing a T-shirt flashed a badge and identified himself as a "police officer in Oklahoma".
"It is a permitted area. It is closed," he said.
And even though News 9 was on a public street, a Union City police officer stepped in and threatened to throw our photojournalist in jail.
"If you don't want to leave I will put you under arrest," he said.
Officers on the scene said since this was permitted area we were not allowed to be there. On Wednesday Union City Police Chief Robert Ague said we were creating a hazard. Share this Story TweetFacebookEmail
"Creates a hazard for the motoring public and whenever you have vehicles sitting off on the side of the road it creates a traffic hazard," he said.
OSU Associate Professor and First Amendment expert Dr. Joey Senat says, in either case, we were well within our rights as a news organization to be there.
Those who live in the area say the racing on the highway has become a common occurrence.
"There for a while it was every week for a couple weeks," said Jenny Shieber.
Shieber says she has no serious issues with the closing of the highway. But the Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) says they received complaints from drivers on Saturday night.
A permit says the show's producers paid $25 to block off the highway beginning at 6 p.m. Ague says they did not notify the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) or OHP.
"Anytime you would shut down a US Highway that was designated a commercial motor vehicle oversized road route without prior approval, we really frown on that," said Lt. Betsy Randolph with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Randolph says this case brings up a host of concerns.
"If the roadway is going to be shut down we really would rather it not be for illegal purposes as in illegal street racing," said Randolph.
In addition, Randolph says they don't believe there was the proper traffic notices or alternative routes set up. And there's also the issue of the mess left behind.
"The burden on cleaning up the highway on this sort of event goes back to the taxpayers," said Randolph.
So a small town talking head, who got her start in mainstream media chasing ambulances for a radio station, has moved her way up the food chain, and wanted to get a juicy 90 second clip of cars doing a burnout on the street. When the producers denied her, she turned all her journalistic spite towards them in an obvious attempt to discredit the show. WOW! Yellow journalism at it's finest. The biggest farce in reality television is the evening news these days...
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