# Police Charge 85-Year-Old for Street Racing **URL:** \ **Category:** Canada Nissan Automotive\ **Created:** [January 3, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038 "2008-01-03T13:06:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![goneinsixtyseconds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@goneinsixtyseconds](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/goneinsixtyseconds)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/1 "2008-01-03T13:06:37Z")
damn those 85-year old street racers! :drivin :drivin > **[CityNews](https://www.citynews.ca/news/news_18232.aspx/)** > > Local breaking news, traffic and weather, live updates and COVID-19 information. National news, business, lifestyle, politics. CityNews, Everywhere. > Police Charge 85-Year-Old Under Street Racing Legislation > Thursday January 3, 2008 > CityNews.ca Staff > > An 85-year-old man has become the oldest individual ever to be charged under the province’s new street racing law. > > Police allege the man was driving 161 km/h on Highway 407 Wednesday. The posted speed limit there is 100 km/h. > > “He said he was going to the bank and shopping,” noted OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley, who added that road conditions at the time were snowy and icy. > > Anyone caught driving more than 50km/h above the limit can be charged under street racing legislation enacted Sept. 20, 2007. Among the possible penalties: drivers can have their vehicle impounded for a week and/or be fined $2,000 or more. Officers also have the option to suspend a motorist’s licence for a week. > > Woolley contends the new laws are aimed at cracking down on all aggressive drivers, not just racers. > > “It got silly – we were getting crashes at high speeds and the defence was, ‘well, if they weren’t racing someone, then they weren’t racing,’ even though the consequences are the same,” he said. > > So far, approximately 2,300 drivers in Ontario have been charged under the street racing laws, 83.9 percent of them male. And though the average age of offenders is 30, police have also charged two 75-year-olds. ---
**Author:** ![RealityZ33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@RealityZ33](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RealityZ33)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/2 "2008-01-03T13:15:46Z")
^lmao! ---
**Author:** ![flatsil40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@flatsil40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/flatsil40)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/3 "2008-01-03T13:19:13Z")
what the \*\*\*\* LOL! OK OK now everyone who is street racing, its a race to see who can get to 140 km/h quicker, if you pass 150 you fail and its a automatic disqualification ya heard. at least if you are actually street racing now and your not going past 150 you can use it against them 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![XuperXero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ea5d25/32.png) [@XuperXero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/XuperXero)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/4 "2008-01-03T14:40:04Z")
^NICE! A loophole 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GTS-Tom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@GTS-Tom](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GTS-Tom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/5 "2008-01-03T14:56:53Z")
Ya heard this on the radio, I laughed…god damn street racers. ---
**Author:** ![dubv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@dubv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dubv)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/6 "2008-01-03T15:22:03Z")
:LOL \>\>\>OPP ---
**Author:** ![Demon\_S13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Demon\_S13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Demon_S13)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/7 "2008-01-03T16:03:28Z")
WTG Cam Woolley ---
**Author:** ![white\_fc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@white\_fc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/white_fc)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/8 "2008-01-03T16:06:35Z")
> [@how not to E-pimp it to pick up women](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-not-to-e-pimp-it-to-pick-up-women/2741/10): > > what the \*\*\*\* LOL! > OK OK now everyone who is street racing, its a race to see who can get to 140 km/h quicker, if you pass 150 you fail and its a automatic disqualification ya heard. at least if you are actually street racing now and your not going past 150 you can use it against them 🙂 lets be more dangerous…149.99km/h ---
**Author:** ![Zredlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f19dbf/32.png) [@Zredlady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zredlady)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/9 "2008-01-03T16:25:15Z")
i love it…the average age of offenders is 30…goes to show how wrong they were about judging/profiling young drivers street racing/being careless ---
**Author:** ![BMWWW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e5b9ba/32.png) [@BMWWW](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BMWWW)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/10 "2008-01-03T17:38:20Z")
160 on presumably snow tires, and in snow/icy conditions must have been quite the hair-raising experience! :R ---
**Author:** ![RABBIT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RABBIT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RABBIT)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/11 "2008-01-03T17:40:55Z")
wow pigs ftl ---
**Author:** ![RED\_LINE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/red_line/32/5656_2.png) [@RED\_LINE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RED_LINE)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/12 "2008-01-03T19:07:08Z")
There goes his cheapo insurance… No more, GREYPOWER…lmao :A ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/13 "2008-01-03T19:43:52Z")
funny how they say most speed freaks are people over 30!!! go \*\*\*\*ing figure… and we race right!! ---
**Author:** ![nitescream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@nitescream](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitescream)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/14 "2008-01-03T19:48:09Z")
sucks for that old man!! im glad that its documented that the avg age is 30 years old, can take a bit of heat off us young drivers!! ---
**Author:** ![white\_fc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@white\_fc](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/white_fc)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/15 "2008-01-03T23:20:39Z")
coming back from dropping dymo off at home i saw an GDB going what i would say, was about 160+ on the 401-\>404 north ramp. granted it wasn’t icy or anything, it was lastnight, but still the roads are a bit wet and cold, never know when ice can strike. and as blade always says “nothing can defeat black ice” ---
**Author:** ![flatsil40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@flatsil40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/flatsil40)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/16 "2008-01-04T00:49:28Z")
its funny how when you mess your car up you blame it on “black” ice, you know white ice wouldnt do that. LOL! was a joke i heard on comedy network about 15 min ago. anyways wtf is a GDB? i may just be stupid ---
**Author:** ![XuperXero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ea5d25/32.png) [@XuperXero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/XuperXero)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/17 "2008-01-04T02:42:55Z")
GDB = Impreza WRX STi chassis. 2004-2007. Not sure about 2008 Chassis. ---
**Author:** ![goneinsixtyseconds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@goneinsixtyseconds](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/goneinsixtyseconds)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/18 "2008-01-04T04:44:57Z")
follow up to this story: i was reading the metro article about this story this morning and it said the officer who stopped the man pulled up beside him on the 407, started honking her horn to get him to slow down … instead, HE SPED UP :S … maybe he thought she wanted to race and they were going on the third honk 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aceSpec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@aceSpec](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/aceSpec)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/19 "2008-01-04T06:03:47Z")
Wow…hahaha.pure jokes…lol > im glad that its documented that the avg age is 30 years old, can take a bit of heat off us young drivers!! Even though they said that, they’re still gonna target people like us. Why? because they can and want to. ---
**Author:** ![nopi240](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nopi240/32/5616_2.png) [@nopi240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nopi240)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/police-charge-85-year-old-for-street-racing/135038/20 "2008-01-04T06:54:12Z")
hahahah lol this is helarious!!!😃 grandpa street racer. its an obvious loophole though. i was cought doing 172 on 401 by an undercover before these laws took place and i wouldnt be surprised if they try to pin me with street racing although i was the lone “Van” at 4:00am on the freeway. hope Gramps here doesnt get charged for street racing so that i can argue based on precedent.