Hero or Villain? Kiwi bandit filling "boy racer" exhausts with expanding foam
BRRRAAAAP! It's music to the ears of a subset of car nuts. Noisy exhaust setups are hardly a new phenomenon, but the fashion for mufflers that intentionally buzz as much as possible is a more recent development in the pantheon of annoying things others do. Exasperation with the muffler rap has led a New Zealand vigilante to start terrorizing cars equipped with what he or she describes as "boy-racer exhausts" in a written manifesto sent to the Marlborough Express. Using the handle "Phantom Expander," the self-righteous vandal has taken to filling the tailpipes of offending cars with self-expanding foam. So far, the four-hour set time of the foam has been the saving grace for the Phantom's victims, most of whom have been able to clear the exhausts before the intended plug has dried. Vehicles with fully clogged exhausts will not start, and repairs could get expensive if other components are damaged.
For now, the foam bandit roams free, but it's only a matter of time before someone gets caught with a can of "Great Stuff" in their hand. Will it be the constabulary or a car owner that catches them? For the foamer's sake, it might be best to get nabbed by the police so that they can keep all of their teeth.
[Source: Stuff.co.nz]
Get a WordPress.com Blog
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Bill E 6:04PM (2/03/2009)
A true hero!!
Reply
notYou 7:13PM (2/03/2009)
BillE: "A true hero!"
Great, I've always wanted to kill one of those.
Jared 8:18PM (2/03/2009)
I dont care if I hate those buzzing honda exhaust too, But damnit. Being a car guy, I can't STAND it when someone vandilizes someone elses car. Even if it might just be an annoying Honda to you, the owner of said car might LOVe the car and might be working their ass off to pay for it. to go up and put expanding foam in their exhuast is selfish and just uncalled for.
I hate theifs and I hate vandals. And this is pure Vandalism. have some respect for other peoples property and what they work to get.
AZZO45b 9:48PM (2/03/2009)
Amen Jared!!! You've said it much nicer than I could have.
If I caught someone making a political statement on my(or anyone else's) car... UGH!!! Lets just say thank God that I don't own a gun or carry knives.
This lil' Kiwi b*tch should be arrested (just as any public nuisance)!!! :( :(
bornfromjets03 11:52PM (2/03/2009)
Ya it's like an unwritten law, never mess with a dude's car. It's a low blow.
McLovin 1:57AM (2/04/2009)
Hero. Now if we can just get her to stick a banana in the tailpipe of the Harley rider that passes by my house at 5AM on weekdays.
Fernando 8:24AM (2/04/2009)
The dude's car messed with him first. If the ricer boy didn't have an annoyingly (and probably illegally) loud muffler, there would be no need for the expanding foam.
I have no problem with spoilers or any other aesthetic feature on a car. I draw the line with noise pollution because now they are infringing on my right to keep my hearing.
Foam on, lil' Kiwi B*tch!!!
me 6:06PM (2/03/2009)
can they come to the u.s. and fill harley pipes?
Reply
Cole Mitguard 6:13PM (2/03/2009)
Haha, I hate the sound of a "boy racer" muffler, why you would want to attract any more attention to your stock 97 civic I just don't understand. And as for Harley owners, if I were this guy I wouldn't mind getting in a fight with your average boy racer... But out here and California at least you wanna stay away from those harleys, never know if that softail is gunna be a helps angel, and even if they aren't, they are most likely gunna be a little bigger that the boy racer
sn_of_randy 6:13PM (2/03/2009)
I AGREE! plug those damn harley pipes. hella freakin loud. you guys keep on complaining about fart cans...but what about the insanely loud harleys that can actually damage your hearing??
trevor2k 6:44PM (2/03/2009)
+1000.
There is a douchebag that lives a block behind me and leaves for work at 5:30am with full throttle and open pipes. Expanding foam, eh? Well, that's better than my HK45 I suppose.
me 7:04PM (2/03/2009)
If they want to ride motorcycles; great. I just don’t understand why they think it’s important for everyone else to hear them. Don’t they know 99.9% of everyone else thinks they’re a douche for making so much noise?
me 7:09PM (2/03/2009)
This goes for loud cars too. Enjoy your hobby, just rember; no one outside of your 3 friends cares or wants to hear it.
Rob Roland 7:51PM (2/03/2009)
Some motorcycle riders are under the impression that louder makes them more "visible" to motorists.
Neat idea, but it doesn't really work that way. When you hear a sound like that, especially depending on the pitch, you can't tell WHERE it's coming from - bass is not directional.
I'm a motorcycle rider and trust me, the factory exhaust on my Honda VFR800 is plenty loud, especially when the VTEC kicks in. My ex had a a CB900F that the previous owner had removed the baffles from the exhaust. Sure, it sounded kinda cool, but it gave you a headache within minutes riding it.
Harley pipes piss me off too. :)
the vegas style guy 8:00PM (2/03/2009)
That's the first thing I thought when I saw this!
Lol!
Jim 8:13AM (2/04/2009)
Along the same lines, this puts it all in perspective -
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
esteva03 2:29AM (2/04/2009)
what you guys might not have notice is that some harley drivers actually put earplugs on when riding!!!! bastards kno is annoying and loud and do what they can to not get annoyed themselves!!! i hate harleys, they are to crotch-rockets what a cadillac cts is to a lotus elise.
Rob 9:16AM (2/04/2009)
They need to catch this guy.... and send him to Milwaukee with a pallet of foam cans. I can't stand all these obnoxious Harleys.
Alvin 6:06PM (2/03/2009)
Although it is annoying to hear the occasional weed-wacker exhaust combined with the four-pot of a Civic, filling exhausts with expanding foam is just obnoxious and immature. I can't wait until a car owner finds the person doing that to their car and kicks their ass.
Reply
Seminole 6:37PM (2/03/2009)
+1
I don't care how annoying something is, you should never cause damage to someones property. I really dislike the fart can exhausts, but I hope they catch this prick and shove some expanding foam down his windpipe.