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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 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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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 on 9/11/26 at 9:44 am to djmed
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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 on 9/11/26 at 9:53 am to Novastar
quote:The problem with this, is while this sounds great and F those people doing that shite but...
About fricking time. This needs to be a nationwide law.
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 on 9/11/26 at 10:01 am to shel311
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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 on 9/11/26 at 10:05 am to djmed
Sounds a lot like "asset forfeiture".....
Shouldn't be able to take it without a conviction...
Shouldn't be able to take it without a conviction...
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:29 am to shel311
Says the person who meekly follows the rules of his homeowners association........but thats different 
Posted on 9/11/26 at 10:39 am to djmed
KIA boyz finna' eat.
Posted on 9/11/26 at 11:10 am to djmed
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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 on 9/11/26 at 11:35 am to shel311
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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 on 9/11/26 at 12:20 pm to djmed
Bank owns most of those Altimas anyhow No loss to the students
Posted on 9/11/26 at 1:14 pm to shel311
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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.
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