Many Bay Area cities are looking for ways to combat dangerous sideshows, and in Antioch, city leaders met on Tuesday to discuss a new sideshow enforcement ordinance.
It was the fourth time the issue had been before the council, and the mayor said he was tired of the delays. In one neighborhood in South Antioch , nearly every intersection has the tell-tale circular tire marks of a sideshow. 'All the dogs start barking, people are scared. You feel like something is about to hit your home,' said a man who lives near one of the intersections. He said individual cars will often arrive at 3 o'clock in the morning just to practice for about 5 minutes.
'That has been the most effective tool we have as a city to stop sideshows,' said Hernandez-Thorpe, 'when we're proactive with law enforcement in finding those who are organizing these and dismantling them there. That's when we've been most effective. So, to me, that was the most important part. Because the reality is, the spectator one--no one has used the spectator law. Pittsburg has one...they've never used it.
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