LETTER: Enough with the ‘antisocial’ and disrespectful stunt driving
Published 7:30 pm Thursday, March 5, 2026
Editor,
Enough with the antisocial behaviour. Loud engine revving with modified exhaust to increase noise, screeching tires (noise pollution) disrupting the peace of communities and their residents at any time of day or night, doing doughnuts at the reclusive cul-de-sac or on the street by a high-oversteer driving manouevre where a car spins in tight circles, causing the rear (or front) wheels to lose traction, often creating thick smoke from friction resulting as a safety risk to excited dumb and loud onlookers for the spectacle or for those of us who simply have no other option than walk by.
Found out later this morning the reckless and stunt driving caused damage to property (photo attached), as this young male driver did this morning around 4 a.m. in the cul-de-sac by Queen Elizabeth Meadows Park, losing control of his muscle car and waking me up.
There should simply be no tolerance and acceptance of that disrespectful behaviour towards the locals in a residential neighbourhood, yet this is a reality which persists since at least 1997 in that cul-de-sac, a mere few meters from our home we wish we could enjoy peacefully.
Thankfully the police showed up half an hour after I reported it, followed by three more police cars to deal with a raucous crowd, then a tow truck, and two fire trucks from the Surrey Fire Department. All this for an immature fool that was allowed to drive a muscle car obviously too challenging for his intellect to drive.
D. Blanchette, Surrey