A 49-year-old man is facing several charges, including the dangerous operation of a vehicle, after revving his car’s engine outside Winnipeg police headquarters.
According to a news release, the incident happened around 1:10 a.m. Saturday morning. Police said a “suspicious” Chrysler 300 was on Garry Street, when the driver started revving the engine “obnoxiously.”
When officers approached the car, it quickly drove off. Police said the driver was operating the vehicle erratically; running red lights, weaving through traffic, and hitting speeds around 90 km/h in the downtown core.
Multiple police units, including the Tactical Support Team and the Canine Unit helped stop the vehicle near St. Michael Road and Pulberry Street.
ITT: people only reading the misleading headline
Asshole was arrested for reckless driving, and might have gotten away with it if he hadn’t goaded the cops by waking them up with his micropenis replacement.
The editor really deserves a good chunk of the blame for that obviously misleading headline.
Absolutely. They knew what they were doing.
And it worked just as they intended.
Revving an engine at 1am is just asshole behavior. Good that the person got charged.
Honestly pointlessly revving an engine at any time should be illegal. There is no reason for that excessive noise. Many of these exhausts are loud enough to damage hearing (which should be illegal to begin with).
Seems like an obvious “disturbing the peace” infraction that could escalate if the person doesn’t stop when asked to by the police.
Not to mention, there are probably city bylaws in place around extended idling (pollution laws).
Not sure that the charge lines up perfectly with the behaviour though.
I would love to see laws or bylaws written and enforced to limit exhausts. Breathing their pollution is bad enough, people shouldn’t have to tolerate being exposed to noises loud enough to be considered hazardous on a worksite in their public spaces.
More strict enforcement of catching people doing burn outs and donuts in parking lots would also help. Many walk away with just warnings while a ticket or impoundment could be more effective
It’s a way for the vehicle owner to broadcast to the world that they have a small dick.
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I makes me want to buy sugar cubes.
That and honking horns. We need laws lime this here in India.
Really? If people in India stopped honking horns, how on earth would you know when to jump out if the way? The entire traffic flow in parts of India is based around always being able to hear what types of vehicles are where.
Turn signals.
In India, even the tuktuk drivers think they’re driving BMWs.
Riiight. The cop station is in downtown Winnipeg with exactly zero condo/apartments nearby.
So really, how annoying can it be? Oh right. Cops heard it so it must be REALLY BAD.
Pfft.
When officers approached the car, it quickly drove off. Police said the driver was operating the vehicle erratically; running red lights, weaving through traffic, and hitting speeds around 90 km/h in the downtown core.
Multiple police units, including the Tactical Support Team and the Canine Unit helped stop the vehicle near St. Michael Road and Pulberry Street.
The driver was arrested and officers discovered he had a quantity of methamphetamine in his possession.
You can think it’s an asshole behaviour without thinking it’s appropriate to charge someone with a crime.
If I noise complaint a protest, should everyone e arrested?
Yeah did you read any of it?
He ran red lights, drive erratic, went up to 90kph in down town, ON TOP of behaving like an asshole
He’s commenting on noise alone
The noise alone isn’t what he got arrested for.
Acknowledged.
That isn’t the point of the comment we are focused on.
Then what ARE you focussing on? You cherry pick two points, Boise and arrest, comment on that you shouldn’t be arrested for noise… He wasn’t arrested for noise, that is cherry picked.
Then when I say this, you say that you were focussed on something else…
What are you, fox news?
Ain’t my comment.
Sounds like the original commenter was focused on noise.
Edit that he thinks noise alone is so offensive it’s arrestable.
I’m responding specifically to the comment where the commenters SPECIFIC beef was revving an engine at 1am.
In most modern nations, communities get to determine what is and is not allowed and what the punishment should be, through their local laws.
I don’t see a single thing wrong with throwing a public nuisance in jail for the night for doing something that has absolutely no purpose except to bother the community. You wanted to get the community’s attention? You got it buddy.
My concerns are the legal apparatus that can not distinguish between nuisance and protest.
I think protests against the genocide in Gaza are appropriate l, and I wouldn’t want people rounded up for being a nuisance.
I think the BLM protests were appropriate, and I wouldn’t want people rounded up for being a nuisance.
I think the protests around truth and reconciliation are appropriate, and I wouldn’t want those people rounded up for being a nuisance.
Basically, I’m just saying the knife cuts BOTH WAYS. Any laws that can shuffle people out of your sight for being something so poorly defined as a “nuisance” opens the gate for it to be applied against protests which are BY DESIGN disruptive to some degree.
No, signs and saying words are not the same as revving an engine, and you won’t find a jury who disagrees.
The Jury is completely irrelevant because it’s after the fact. What matters is what the police can use as justification.
I’m saying that the bar needs to be raised for what the police can cuff you for. I am not in favour of “arrest them all and let the jury decide” approach to policing.
That’s why the police have to be able to present reasonable articulable suspicion that a specific law was being violated. Personally I would love to be arrested for peaceful protest. I have kids’ college to pay for and obvious civil rights violations are a quick settlement.
I wish that were the case, because it would provide financial incentive for police restraint.
If the hundreds of university kids who were arrested for Gaza protests hit the lottery, I’d be thrilled.
The cop station is NOT in a residential community. It’s in downtown Winnipeg with exactly zero residences nearby.
Unless they had it towed outside the environment, it exists within a jurisdiction.
A wise man once told me: One crime at a time.
The clickbait is strong with this one.
It reads like the guy intentionally got one star so he could see if he could lose the cops??
Whatever, Winnipeg stuff.
I thought cops stopped giving tickets for any traffic violations
The driver was arrested and officers discovered he had a quantity of methamphetamine in his possession.
Oooohhhhh.
Mopar or no car. Title is total clickbait but glad he got arrested for speeding and running red lights.
Jfc. Fucking cops got their feewings hurt by a reving engine.
ACA(weak-assed)B
ACAB, but also, fuck people who rev their engines.
Also fuck people who do 90 in-city, run reds, or weave through traffic.
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Police said the driver was operating the vehicle erratically; running red lights, weaving through traffic, and hitting speeds around 90 km/h in the downtown core.
It might have been the noise nuisance at 1am that started this, but it was the dangerous driving that led to the arrest.
I’ve no love for the police as an institution, but surely someone being obnoxiously loud when people are trying to sleep and then endangering others with their driving is not a hero either
If the police aren’t to be responsible to remove dangerous drivers from the road who should be? Everyone is quick is call all cops bad but no one really has a solution to replace them.
Thats flat out wrong.
They don’t want to replace them entirely. But just maybe move funding to services to help those having mental health issues rather than paying to train cops to shoot the first time they’re scared then send them in to deal either erratic people having mental health issues will lead to better outcomes for everyone.
When cities can’t afford services to help people, because policing is taking up a massive portion of their budget, then it’s a broken system that needs correction.
They don’t want to replace them entirely. But just maybe move funding to services
That’s the “defund the police” people, who are typically very differently from the “ACAB” people.
When officers approached the car, it quickly drove off. Police said the driver was operating the vehicle erratically; running red lights, weaving through traffic, and hitting speeds around 90 km/h in the downtown core.
The driver was arrested and officers discovered he had a quantity of methamphetamine in his possession.
The investigation also revealed the same vehicle was involved in an erratic driving incident on Pembina Highway a day prior.
Yeah, sounds like a real upstanding citizen.
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Probably more downpuking…
You may boo me now.
Nope. Behaviour like this is inherently anti-social. I’m personally for creating a stronger community and this works against that.
