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South Carolina's New Street Takeover Law Doesn't Just Arrest You. It Can Take Your Car

Posted on 9/11/26 at 9:42 am
Posted by djmed
Member since Aug 2020
4443 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 9:42 am
they ain't f'ing around

South Carolina's New Street Takeover Law Doesn't Just Arrest You. It Can Take Your Car — Even If You Only Watched.

Eighty-plus arrests in one night sounds like the headline out of Greenville County, South Carolina. It isn't the number that should worry car owners. That number is 38 — the vehicles deputies impounded at a single intersection on September 5, and how little actually has to go wrong for South Carolina to keep one of them for good.

According to the Greenville County Sheriff's Office, deputies moved on the intersection of Locust Hill Road and Fairview Road around 11:30 p.m. on September 5 to break up what the agency described as a street takeover — an unauthorized gathering built around burnouts and blocked roadways. By the time the scene cleared, the sheriff's office reported more than 80 adults and multiple juveniles in custody, 38 vehicles impounded, and 10 firearms seized. Every adult was charged with aiding and abetting a street takeover, a charge that didn't exist in South Carolina before this spring. The investigation, the agency says, is ongoing, with additional charges possible.

That new charge is doing more work in this story than the arrest count is.
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Here's the detail that should get every enthusiast's attention: the law doesn't wait for a conviction before it takes the car. Under the statute, any vehicle used by a participant, organizer, or aider or abettor "shall be seized" by the responding agency on the spot. Owners get written notice within ten days and thirty days from that notice to reclaim the vehicle and pay towing and storage fees, and returning it before then is left to the seizing agency's discretion. Miss that window, whether or not a court ever finds you guilty of anything, and title to the car transfers permanently to the police department, which can use it or sell it and keep the proceeds. Losing the car isn't a sentence a judge hands down later. It's a clock that starts the moment deputies arrive.

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Posted by Novastar
Member since Jan 2023
1172 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 9:44 am to
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South Carolina's New Street Takeover Law Doesn't Just Arrest You. It Can Take Your Car — Even If You Only Watched.


About fricking time. This needs to be a nationwide law.
Posted by shel311
McKinney, Texas
Member since Aug 2004
113286 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 9:53 am to
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About fricking time. This needs to be a nationwide law.

The problem with this, is while this sounds great and F those people doing that shite but...

Give the government that kind of power and watch what happens, the same thing that has happened since the dawn of time...watch how quickly that gets expanded to allow the government to do whatever they want and take. other actually innocent people's shite without recourse. That will 1000000% happen.
Posted by Blizzard of Chizz
Member since Apr 2012
21871 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:01 am to
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Give the government that kind of power and watch what happens,


Ordinarily I’d agree, but in this case I’ll make an exception. These idiots do not give one single damn about the consequences or the impact on the community by blocking streets and doing this shite. Shut them down in one area they just pop up in another. It’s about time the fricking hammer was dropped with extreme prejudice on these idiots and ANYONE who shows up to watch and gives these dumb fricks an audience. Hell, make it a damn felony. I’m all for it.
Posted by TigersnJeeps
FL Panhandle
Member since Jan 2021
3023 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:05 am to
Sounds a lot like "asset forfeiture".....

Shouldn't be able to take it without a conviction...
Posted by trinidadtiger
Member since Jun 2017
21737 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:29 am to
Says the person who meekly follows the rules of his homeowners association........but thats different
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
18520 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:39 am to
KIA boyz finna' eat.
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
50133 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:10 am to
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Miss that window, whether or not a court ever finds you guilty of anything, and title to the car transfers permanently to the police department, which can use it or sell it and keep the proceeds. Losing the car isn't a sentence a judge hands down later. It's a clock that starts the moment deputies arrive.


What a GREAT idea - start making someone pay a price for all this idiocy
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
61052 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:35 am to
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The problem with this, is while this sounds great and F those people doing that shite but...

Give the government that kind of power and watch what happens, the same thing that has happened since the dawn of time...watch how quickly that gets expanded to allow the government to do whatever they want and take. other actually innocent people's shite without recourse. That will 1000000% happen.


Issues like this are a pendulum swinging back and forth between law enforcement too strong being oppressive and law enforcement being too light as to promote growing irresponsible behaviors. The pendulum needs to swing back toward stronger law enforcement for a bit to tamp this down before it can start swinging back the other way.
Posted by Crawdaddy
Slidell. The jewel of Louisiana
Member since Sep 2006
19469 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 12:20 pm to
Bank owns most of those Altimas anyhow No loss to the students
Posted by SOSFAN
Blythewood
Member since Jun 2018
16683 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 1:14 pm to
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Give the government that kind of power and watch what happens, the same thing 


The punishment of a crime has to be so bad that you don't even want to consider breaking the law. That is the only way to lower crime.
Posted by Wolfwireless
Member since Aug 2024
6897 posts
Posted on 9/11/26 at 1:23 pm to
Posted by shel311
McKinney, Texas
Member since Aug 2004
113286 posts
Posted on 9/12/26 at 8:04 pm to
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Says the person who meekly follows the rules of his homeowners association........but thats different
Imagine begging for your government to pass draconian laws against you.

Sheep
Posted by shel311
McKinney, Texas
Member since Aug 2004
113286 posts
Posted on 9/12/26 at 8:04 pm to
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The punishment of a crime has to be so bad that you don't even want to consider breaking the law. That is the only way to lower crime.
I agree, but did you read the OP?
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
28657 posts
Posted on 9/12/26 at 8:14 pm to
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Miss that window, whether or not a court ever finds you guilty of anything, and title to the car transfers permanently to the police department, which can use it or sell it and keep the proceeds. Losing the car isn't a sentence a judge hands down later. It's a clock that starts the moment deputies arrive.


Gots ta love those laws that lets them take yo property whether you guilty or not. That is what I calls one hell uva racket!!

But almost all government is clearly a RICO!!
Posted by FLTech
he/won
Member since Sep 2017
30166 posts
Posted on 9/12/26 at 8:17 pm to
They need to do this shite in Atlanta
Posted by RobbBobb
Member since Feb 2007
34619 posts
Posted on 9/13/26 at 4:01 am to
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Sounds a lot like "asset forfeiture".....

Shouldn't be able to take it without a conviction...

And how hard would it be to get one? These retards all have phones out videoing their lawlessness. And then posting it

Once you take away the social media aspect of it, they will get bored with it
Posted by captron
Occupied Sillycon Valley
Member since Jul 2018
611 posts
Posted on 9/13/26 at 4:19 am to

What about stolen vehicles ?
Posted by Bunk Moreland
Member since Dec 2010
71798 posts
Posted on 9/13/26 at 6:44 am to
SFP, Roger, and I have been warning that a lot of things like this will be turned against you. J6 and even Russiagate should have been teaching points to oppose state power. What is the difference between a "street takeover" and protest? Who makes that decision?
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
13571 posts
Posted on 9/13/26 at 8:04 am to
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or the impact


You mean “effect”.
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