View Full Version : This Is How Dangerous It Is In Oakland, CA
THEDARKKNIGHT
11-30-1999, 12:00 AM
i cant believe people aren't running them over. i wouldn't even hesistate. id start aiming for them all. backing up for more!
NorCalN00b
06-12-2006, 04:04 PM
http://www.filecabi.net/video/oakland256.html
My old man works in Oakland and I worry sick about him every single day :-(
junebughunter
06-13-2006, 12:30 PM
Why is this happening? I'm not quite sure why these people are trashing the cars. What would happen if a PD car or a CHP drove through?
What is happening to the people after they get pulled out of their cars so people can trash them?
It makes me sick, and there wasn't an officer on the scene at a single one of those.
SB 405
06-13-2006, 12:46 PM
I don't think it would be smart/safe for any cop to go rushing into something like that w/o some major back-up before hand. That could be why you don't see any police around until they circle the wagons
WannaBeaChippie
06-17-2006, 11:08 AM
I live in Oakland...Ive seen these personally...its a stupid thing the do called a sideshow. They usually do it in the middle of an intersection, if you arent a minority with a RAIDERS sticker on your car....they will stomp your roof out. Up here in the Bay Area what they are doing is known as the Hyphy movement. Guys with dreds and big t-shirts. No Education, trying to make a statement about East Oakland...they call it..GOING DUMB...and that just exactly what it is...DUMB. I grew up in Ohio--to me..all this is strange, but its not suprising.
Flying Pig
06-17-2006, 05:01 PM
The day is going to come when they target an off duty officer with his family in the car......
Sounds like not much has changed over the years in Oakland.
SB 405
06-17-2006, 06:24 PM
After watching that video I'm thinking....what happens when those goofballs jump on the hood of the wrong car and the driver decides to introduce the group to his A-K?
After watching that video I'm thinking....what happens when those goofballs jump on the hood of the wrong car and the driver decides to introduce the group to his A-K?
That's called "street justice". :badgrin: The kind of justice where constitutional rights, liberal judges, 'cruel and unusual punishment', Miranda warnings and all the other hodge-podge doesn't come into play.
SB 405
06-18-2006, 08:33 AM
Yeah Mac,good ol street justice....Kind of like the store clerk who plays eye for an eye with the bad guy pulling a 211 and then pulls his own wepon from below the register to take care of business.;)
G-Man
06-18-2006, 09:05 AM
if that were my car, i think i could articulate fear, intent and ability...
HwyChaser
06-18-2006, 02:41 PM
if that were my car, i think i could articulate fear, intent and ability...
I guarantee I would. I would be wondering if I?m the next Reginal Denny. If my family was with me, they would find out real fast that they picked the wrong car.
junebughunter
06-19-2006, 01:23 PM
What's scary about this is. Let's say anyone who has a gun decided to pull it out. There has to be a couple dozen people there already "strapped". It's a lose-lose situation. The best way out of that is to floor it and hope you don't in trouble get in trouble for running over everyone
retchp
06-19-2006, 03:39 PM
Very good point. I would just gun it and not give a s*&t if I ran over anyone. Who knows, I might just get an award for reducing the welfare rolls.
yeah...
my thoughts were simply..."Finally...the only reason large SUV's could be useful..."
Can you say "shift on the fly 4WD???"
brewdog21
06-24-2006, 11:03 AM
The worst and most distrubing thing about this is that if anyone were in the victim's position and took any action, they would get the hell sued out of them
Tiredmotor
06-24-2006, 11:37 AM
"The worst and most distrubing thing about this is that if anyone were in the victim's position and took any action, they would get the hell sued out of them "
Blame that on some scummy attorney. If they're were not any lawyers willing to take frivilous suits....we wouldn't have frivilous suits.
SB 405
06-24-2006, 11:39 AM
"The worst and most distrubing thing about this is that if anyone were in the victim's position and took any action, they would get the hell sued out of them "
Blame that on some scummy attorney. If they're were not any lawyers willing to take frivilous suits....we wouldn't have frivilous suits.
True,but at least I'd be alive.
Dipmo
06-24-2006, 11:48 AM
"The worst and most distrubing thing about this is that if anyone were in the victim's position and took any action, they would get the hell sued out of them "
Blame that on some scummy attorney. If they're were not any lawyers willing to take frivilous suits....we wouldn't have frivilous suits.
True,but at least I'd be alive.
Maybe you'd be alive. I'd be willing to bet that if a person tried to leave the scene and injured one of those innocent souls in the process they might find themselves on the wrong side of any number of firearms.
Now if they would jut ban handguns in Oakland as they did in SF, the criminals would all turn in their weapons and getting shot while trying to get away from that mob would no longer be a worry.:rolleyes:
Two old sayings come to mind here:
The worst and most distrubing thing about this is that if anyone were in the victim's position and took any action, they would get the hell sued out of them
"Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six."
Now if they would jut ban handguns in Oakland as they did in SF, the criminals would all turn in their weapons and getting shot while trying to get away from that mob would no longer be a worry.
"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
Dipmo
06-24-2006, 01:13 PM
Two old sayings come to mind here:
The worst and most distrubing thing about this is that if anyone were in the victim's position and took any action, they would get the hell sued out of them
"Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six."
Now if they would jut ban handguns in Oakland as they did in SF, the criminals would all turn in their weapons and getting shot while trying to get away from that mob would no longer be a worry.
"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
And here I thought the sarcasm was dripping off of my comment about banning handguns...
I like the saying though, very fitting.
And here I thought the sarcasm was dripping off of my comment...
It was, and I got it.....but it had to be said nonetheless. :smile:
22348(b)
06-25-2006, 12:59 AM
"The worst and most distrubing thing about this is that if anyone were in the victim's position and took any action, they would get the hell sued out of them "
Blame that on some scummy attorney. If they're were not any lawyers willing to take frivilous suits....we wouldn't have frivilous suits.
When is somebody in government going to write up a bill to disbar lawyers that bring frivolous lawsuits to Civil Court???
SB 405
06-25-2006, 02:30 PM
"The worst and most distrubing thing about this is that if anyone were in the victim's position and took any action, they would get the hell sued out of them "
Blame that on some scummy attorney. If they're were not any lawyers willing to take frivilous suits....we wouldn't have frivilous suits.
True,but at least I'd be alive.
Maybe you'd be alive. I'd be willing to bet that if a person tried to leave the scene and injured one of those innocent souls in the process they might find themselves on the wrong side of any number of firearms.
Now if they would jut ban handguns in Oakland as they did in SF, the criminals would all turn in their weapons and getting shot while trying to get away from that mob would no longer be a worry.:rolleyes:
Innocent souls??...In that video?
Nonsequitur
06-25-2006, 10:30 PM
i cant believe people aren't running them over. i wouldn't even hesistate. id start aiming for them all. backing up for more! Better be in the Explorer and not the Z28 since you would high center on one of the Oaklanders... :shock: :biggrin:
jason281973
07-21-2006, 06:28 PM
I live in Oakland, too. Albeit far from the east end, most people in the bay area know not to cruise in the numbered streets or Market or MLK in Oakland on a weekend night. That being said, my friends who are OPD tell me that they are just outnumbered and those that do work 'side show' get paid overtime. OPD is doing a huge recruiting effort right now with signs all over the city saying 'Justice Pays'. They're right, too...OPD gets paid very well, but they have to deal with that stuff in the video quite frequently.
WannaBeaChippie
07-21-2006, 06:33 PM
I live in Oakland, too. Albeit far from the east end, most people in the bay area know not to cruise in the numbered streets or Market or MLK in Oakland on a weekend night. That being said, my friends who are OPD tell me that they are just outnumbered and those that do work 'side show' get paid overtime. OPD is doing a huge recruiting effort right now with signs all over the city saying 'Justice Pays'. They're right, too...OPD gets paid very well, but they have to deal with that stuff in the video quite frequently.They pay OPD overtime to watch sideshows...I've never heard that before. I live in Oakland too, the side shows are a trip.
Sportbiker
08-14-2006, 10:57 PM
from what i can see....the reason why no one just floors it is either they are getting pissed, getting out to defend their cars and getting ran-sacked...or they are boxed in from the side show cars and cant get out...you see a couple floor it but stop short of hitting another car...
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