West Cliff/Beach walk

Demonstrations for children, of violent police dog attacks. A celebration of cars. Thanks cp for reminding me of what a sick and depraved culture we live in.

That is a Camaro, and not a Corvette, that is being used for the LAPD racer.
Yes, there wasn't a good sense of direction with this story. It's sort of interesting to show the contrasts in culture that arise just within different sections of the city, partly due to many visitors, but you could also look at UC students vs. upper Westside homeowners vs. Santa Cruz Hills people vs Pogonip/San Lorenzo park bushes residents vs. working class in Watsonville vs. retirees.
I'd have to actually interview the enthusiasts to see why cars are their hobby, and why some other aspects of culture such as the 50s nostalgia music etc. come along with it. In high school in another state, there was a group of guys who were 4x4 hobbyists, and they really went about it in a destructive way, going out carving through creeks offroad, and all at once, adopting gunracks, chew, and even some confederate flags as their style. A friend who grew up with an auto business owner dad got into tuning and racing cars, but he had a strong reversal with that and now essentially is one of the biggest anti-auto advocates/critical mass participants that I know.
Anyway, another thing I found was that some racing cars are switching to ethanol fuels from gas and methanol. This detective had mentioned they used ethanol. That's pretty important, because you can visualize quite a lot of fuel being used at a race, and ethanol is at least carbon neutral. http://www.sportscarmarket.com/articles/archives/745 As far as that goes, George Monbiot says that airplane flight is quite destructive with greenhouse gases.

I remember when I was going to Elementary school here in Santa Cruz, there were days when the police would come and show off how effective the K-9s are. Maybe that was training us real young to not fuck with the police?