Law enforcement in Oakland, California has posted a video to social media highlighting several vehicles seized at an illegal sideshow. The video includes three examples of the Chevy Camaro, all of which hail from either the fifth or sixth generation. Oakland PD warns that anyone caught participating in a sideshow will have their vehicle towed and seized with a 30-day hold.
“Violent, disruptive, and illegal behavior will not be tolerated,” Oakland PD writes on X. “Officers will take enforcement action by issuing citations, making arrests, and towing vehicles.”
The video is essentially a slideshow of impounded vehicles. In addition to several examples of the Chevy Camaro, it also shows several BMWs and a few more innocuous vehicles, such as a Honda Accord sedan and an Acura MDX crossover. The video ends by stating that law enforcement towed 80 vehicles, wrote 50 citations, and made one arrest during a single illegal sideshow in May.
For readers who may be unaware, a sideshow is a gathering of cars and people, typically on a public street, where cars perform donuts and burnouts in front of a crowd. It’s not uncommon for drivers to lose control and strike onlookers, and violence can break out as well. GM Authority has covered multiple sideshow viral videos, including a video where a car is set on fire and another where a crowd tramples a convertible.
In both of those videos, a Chevy Camaro is the target. Car thieves will reportedly steal Chevy Camaros and take them to a sideshow to perform donuts, only to destroy the car once they’re done. Camaro theft rose sharply earlier this year in Los Angeles, with thieves apparently using cloned ignition keys to take control of the vehicles.
Check out the Oakland police video right here:
If you take part in illegal sideshows, your vehicle could end up like this: towed and seized with a 30-day hold.
Violent, disruptive, and illegal behavior will not be tolerated. Officers will take enforcement action by issuing citations, making arrests, and towing vehicles. pic.twitter.com/dZzGUzwKb2
— Oakland Police Dept. (@oaklandpoliceca) June 30, 2024
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Comments
The mentality of many Gen X thru Z. We want to have fun & destroy things with no repercussions.
Mob mentality.
Reminds me of the boomer mentality in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, heck, we still got old hippies causing lawlessness and trouble.
Oakland cops can’t even manage the out of control crime in the city much less sideshows . What a joke
Why a 30 day hold. Law should have had owner forfeit the car. Have the PD auction them off after 30 days and put the bucks into the general account for the city.
These are stolen cars. The rightful owners should have the ability to claim them.
Obviously if stolen, the owner gets it back if it is still on one piece. Although the owner may want it totaled instead and get the insurance payout. Or maybe gets to use the thief as a personal slave for a year as payback. I’m fairly liberal minded, but I view car theft the same as the 1800’s viewed horse thiefs. Hangem.
Hopefully some of the arrests that they are making are for auto theft. Have no idea whether Oakland would prosecute or not, even though the police seem anxious to charge.
Unfortunately, police do their job only to see liberal prosecutors in Oakland give out minimum penalties.
30 day hold then auction if the major fines or proof like all abiding citizens need to prove to retrieve any vehicles.
Then yank their license for minimum 10
years, on top of state ordered
classes that cost the equivalent of Cali DUI classes. Why do these groups of degenerates get their hand held and asses wiped while the rest of us pay up, go to jail, lose car, maybe jobs, and we were speeding one too many times, too many points and your screwed. Yet we keep paying.
Are they fragile and need to be babied? Are they underage, thieves, gangsters, poor?
So what if they are. It doesn’t matter. Pay up, slave up or both.