Concern over nuisance boy racers

4:10pm Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in News By Andrea Collitt

POLICE have threatened to seize cars belonging to nuisance boy racers gathering at a Colchester business park.
Residents have complained of vehicles gathering at the Cowdray Centre with loud music playing and engines revving late into the evening.
Officers from the Colchester Town Neighbourhood Policing Team have warned the trouble makers of a law that allows them to seize a motor vehicle causing alarm, distress or annoyance.
They have also had to step up late-night patrols.
Residents in Cowdray Avenue, which backs onto the site, said the problem has keeping them awake at night.
See tomorrow's Gazette for the full story

Comments(10)

DelA says...
7:29pm Tue 23 Oct 12

How many of these owners have informed their insurance companies when they have modified their cars, even a different exhaust.

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Joker50 says...
8:32am Wed 24 Oct 12

Why do young people always hang around being a nuisance, why can't the take up needle work or something.

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Allan Whitehead says...
9:47am Wed 24 Oct 12

Surely those who cause this nuisance, must realise that one day they may become elderly themselves, and could be placed in the same position as those they are annoying now. I suppose those of us who are in our twilight years never ever caused a nuisance to anyone when we were in our youth. We did not have motor vehicle they were truly a luxury in those days. Some youths managed to have motor bikes and no doubt we may have annoyed some neighbours some of the time.

However, if we were amongst those who were considered to be causing problems for neighbours, then the police who attended knew our names, parents, and where we lived. Our respect of the police would actually mean we disappeared to another area for a while, and if they were called upon a second time for a similar problem, that was the end of the nuisance problem until the next generation. It was a time when parents also believed controlling their off springs by discipline, and we respected our parents.
I do not agree with anyone being a nuisance and causing upset to his or her elders, however, we must remember in our day employment was plentiful,
In addition, most people went to work. Therefore, today’s youngsters need something to occupy their minds and use up their energy.

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wellnow says...
10:09am Wed 24 Oct 12

task your new police commissioner when the winner is announced.

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Allan Whitehead says...
10:20am Wed 24 Oct 12

wellnow wrote:
task your new police commissioner when the winner is announced.
Sorry "wellnow",
Whoever wins this particular post?
Will just be another cog in a great big financial salary circle.

What can a new Besom do only accept the financial position that our police find themselves?

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zt00013 says...
10:32am Wed 24 Oct 12

I find it strange that the current narrative is so anti-youth, it appears to have some among the older generation scared of young people. Their mere presence as a group of friends now necessitates ringing the police and causing endless trouble and mis-trust. People younger than 18 cannot go to bars and pubs naturally their left to wonder around, this doesn't mean they all have knives and guns, ready to viciously assault the nearest person. People need to get a grip, provide some sort of alternative for young people or accept they are going to hang about with their friends on the street and stop fearing them, they cause no harm and are not a gang as the Daily Fail would have you think.

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irememberwhen says...
2:57pm Wed 24 Oct 12

Give them random drug tests

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DelA says...
6:16pm Wed 24 Oct 12

zt00013 wrote:
I find it strange that the current narrative is so anti-youth, it appears to have some among the older generation scared of young people. Their mere presence as a group of friends now necessitates ringing the police and causing endless trouble and mis-trust. People younger than 18 cannot go to bars and pubs naturally their left to wonder around, this doesn't mean they all have knives and guns, ready to viciously assault the nearest person. People need to get a grip, provide some sort of alternative for young people or accept they are going to hang about with their friends on the street and stop fearing them, they cause no harm and are not a gang as the Daily Fail would have you think.
You are quite right, but we went to coffee bars and drank coffee, ate meat pies and played music from a juke box.I spent hours and a fortune in mine.Where are these places now?? All you get now are Macs or take-aways , no where to sit to talk etc.
We could do with a late opening cafe in Clacton

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EssexBoy1956 says...
9:35pm Wed 24 Oct 12

They should take up cycling instead.

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André says...
9:59am Fri 26 Oct 12

'Boy' racers... don't make me laugh, most of them are in their 20's and 30's. Coked up, antisocial, driving around the town circuit over and over causing polution and often throwing things from their cars at passers by or beeping at peope walking along the pavement to try and jump whilst screaming abuse. The police need to clamp down on it, bring in drug testing for drivers like they have in other countries. If you are caught drink driving or drug driving the car should be siezed and crushed.

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