Cruising

Dionysus · #1 06-30-2003, 11:50 AM

Cruising

Is it legal in your area?

If it is: Do you actually like to participate in it or do you just like to watch it?

Where are some popular spots?

Note:Cruising can mean different things in different areas.

Rio_Kohitsuji · #2 06-30-2003, 12:30 PM

Hmm..when -I- think of cruising I'm thinking of basically driving slow/revving your engine/etc really slowly around a certain area to show off.

It's goes both ways on the legality of it. The cops around here are kinda cool about it, as long as you're not waking anyone up they won't really say anything to you.

Places, places, hmm....probably around the Riverfront Park, it has a drag strip right next to it, so it's pretty popular around here. However, it's populated with really nice homes and old people, so the cops do get called in quite a lot.

edited to add: I like to be the person -inside- the car, not just watching everyone else's. My bf has a sweet Eclipse that's at the moment getting ground effects and a custom pait job, so I plan on taking it down there.

librasoul22 · #3 06-30-2003, 12:53 PM

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Originally posted by Dionysus
Note:Cruising can mean different things in different areas.

True. Cause I know cruising to mean going to bars or other pickup spots with the intent to hook up.

PM_Mama00 · #4 06-30-2003, 01:19 PM

Ahhh cruising... the official past time of high schoolers in the Downriver area. Seriously there is nothing cheap around here to do, so when you're in high school, cruising is the thing to do. I used to hang out in Bishop Park, where everyone around here cruises through. Apparently the police do have a problem with it. While turning around in a Burger King parking lot, I got pulled over for "looping". I didn't just get to pay the ticket, I had to go to court. There were like 2 or 3 days that people got sent to, and the day that I had it was crazy in there! Seriously standing room only! There had to be about 50 or so people in there that got tickets for the same thing. I ended up having to pay $50 and put on non-reportive probation for a year. I think it's so dumb that it's illegal. No one is hurting anyone, and it's not like we were disturbing the public.

I don't do it anymore, but when me and my friend have nothing to do, we'll go up and down the strip a few times. It looks like it's still pretty big with the high schoolers.

ThetaGirl1997 · #5 06-30-2003, 02:22 PM

Cruising was a big thing when I was in high school. I grew up in a small town where there was really nothing to do after 10:00. I think they put a ban on cruising shortly after I graduated.

I don't think it happens much where I am now, but I live in a large city where there's almost always something going on. At any rate, it's not really something would be into anymore.

AGDPrincess70 · #6 06-30-2003, 03:03 PM

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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
Ahhh cruising... the official past time of high schoolers in the Downriver area. Seriously there is nothing cheap around here to do, so when you're in high school, cruising is the thing to do. I used to hang out in Bishop Park, where everyone around here cruises through. Apparently the police do have a problem with it. While turning around in a Burger King parking lot, I got pulled over for "looping". I didn't just get to pay the ticket, I had to go to court. There were like 2 or 3 days that people got sent to, and the day that I had it was crazy in there! Seriously standing room only! There had to be about 50 or so people in there that got tickets for the same thing. I ended up having to pay $50 and put on non-reportive probation for a year. I think it's so dumb that it's illegal. No one is hurting anyone, and it's not like we were disturbing the public.

I don't do it anymore, but when me and my friend have nothing to do, we'll go up and down the strip a few times. It looks like it's still pretty big with the high schoolers.

Oh God! My friends and I used to cruise "the strip" all the time! Have you noticed that downtown Wyandotte has turned into a scene from "the Fast and the Furious?" lol I think it's hilarious too see all those 16 year old guys with their souped-up Ford Focuses trying to act like badasses. Don't they realize that it's not impressive, just really funny?

LuaBlanca · #7 06-30-2003, 10:37 PM

There's a strip of beach in a neighboring town that everyone "cruises." There's a hurricane dike to prevent the city from flooding during a hurricane and people park on the sidewalk and sit on the dike. Or they park in a parking lot down the way and walk from one end to the other along this low cement wall. The dike is at one end, and there's an old Fort at the other, complete with old cannons and stuff.
Then there's the "Ave" which I assume is kind of like "the strip" in other places...except that it's really raunchy- complete with cheap commercial sex and all. Greasy portuguese bars complete with greasy portuguese men everywhere. Yuck.

OUlioness01 · #8 06-30-2003, 10:38 PM

at school you can usually see the townies cruising down court street on friday and saturday nights while the collge kids are at parties or at the bars. i had never seen anyone cruise until i got to OU.

Rio_Kohitsuji · #9 06-30-2003, 10:50 PM

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Originally posted by OUlioness01
at school you can usually see the townies cruising down court street on friday and saturday nights while the collge kids are at parties or at the bars. i had never seen anyone cruise until i got to OU.

Welcome to southeastern Ohio!

There's nothing else to do except to watch rednecks and white trash.

Ps: have you seen the pink "pimped-out" neon yet?

AXO_MOM_3 · #10 06-30-2003, 11:54 PM

I used to cruise all the time in high school! Makes me smile thinking about it! We have one pretty long strip in town, and it is still pretty popular! I avoid the area on the weekends after dark!

DeltAlum · #11 07-01-2003, 01:26 AM

I see a fair number of Ohio posters on this thread. We used to cruise a lot in Columbus in the 60's. Unhappily, most of the drive-ins (the restaurant variety, not the movie theatres) have been closed.

Unless you had a fake ID, and went to the Ohio State bars, it was a huge part of the teenage social scene.

There is a Sonic drive in reasonably close to us now, and a lot of old car enthusiasts "cruise" it on the weekends. Kinda fun to watch.

deltaphi94 · #12 07-01-2003, 02:02 AM

It doesn't just happen in southern Ohio. I went to school in northeast Ohio, and one of my sisters - who grew up fairly close to our campus- met her now husband cruising when she was in high school.
I've never been, myself, but I know my brothers went cruising all the time in the 80's. It's possible that one or two of them met their (now ex) wives that way...

PM_Mama00 · #13 07-01-2003, 10:03 AM

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Originally posted by AGDPrincess70
Oh God! My friends and I used to cruise "the strip" all the time! Have you noticed that downtown Wyandotte has turned into a scene from "the Fast and the Furious?" lol I think it's hilarious too see all those 16 year old guys with their souped-up Ford Focuses trying to act like badasses. Don't they realize that it's not impressive, just really funny?

Lol or the souped-up SHITTY cars! I live near Palco Electronics in Southgate and I always see the same brown hoopty car with gold rims. I'm sure you've seen it cuz it's EVERYWHERE!

Haha... I'm sure you know Jay Garza... yeah I used to hang out with him and Tom Zieg!

MoonStar17 · #14 07-01-2003, 10:11 AM

LOL cruising in miami can mean many things

if you are under 21, and you are "cruising" in coconut grove...(a place that is mainly bars and lil shops and 21 type places) then your cruising is called "looser laps!" LOL

example speech: (sitting at wet willies watching the cars go by)
"Hey look at all those little kids doing looser laps"

LOL they just drive around and around the bars looking "cool"

HILLARIOUS!!

the other place in miami where people "cruise" is in South Beach
usually Ocean Drive or Washington
OceanDrive is where all the art deco hotels are versaci's house etc. ...for the most part cruising on OceanDrive is allowed, but at certain times (usually Friday Saturday nights) there is a lil light on a yield sign looking thing that blinks with a yellow light when it is NOT allowed

people cruise on washington more to see what good clubs are around,

young lil kids do looser laps here too

Miami is more fun when you are 21

Dionysus · #15 07-01-2003, 10:38 AM

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Originally posted by MoonStar17
LOL cruising in miami can mean many things

if you are under 21, and you are "cruising" in coconut grove...(a place that is mainly bars and lil shops and 21 type places) then your cruising is called "looser laps!" LOL

example speech: (sitting at wet willies watching the cars go by)
"Hey look at all those little kids doing looser laps"

LOL they just drive around and around the bars looking "cool"

HILLARIOUS!!

CTFU! That is some funny shhhh!