{"id":69061,"date":"2017-07-03T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=69061"},"modified":"2017-07-04T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T07:53:20","slug":"video-illegal-drifting-spinning-turning-stomachs-not-heads-say-complainants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/03\/video-illegal-drifting-spinning-turning-stomachs-not-heads-say-complainants\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Illegal drifting, spinning, turning stomachs, not heads say complainants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrons and employees of the shop regularly spin and drift in the street during office hours.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring businesses has had enough of this, but says the SAPS and traffic department has done nothing to combat the illegal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage taken by complainants clearly show how the drivers of the revved up cars, spin the vehicles recklessly close to the electric substation supplying power to the whole area.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZoAvGFNnDPc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is affecting not only our businesses, but poses a threat to the safety of law abiding motorists and pedestrians,\u201d one complainant told\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Complainants say that the culprits are associated with German Auto, and not Lesley Performance Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses in Milli Street says that the arrogant disregard of road rules by a high performance auto shop in the street, is driving them up the walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":69062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","post_format-post-format-video"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}