{"id":26943,"date":"2018-07-23T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=26943"},"modified":"2018-07-23T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T11:29:39","slug":"horns-blasted-along-busy-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/horns-blasted-along-busy-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Horns Blasted Along Busy Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos erupted during rush hour on Wednesday 18 July along Walsall Road,<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/great-barr\">Great Barr<\/a>\u00a0<\/span> when a convoy of luxury super car drivers brought the city junction to a standstill\u00a0 with some people risking their lives by hanging out of a Range Rover.<\/p>\n<p>A video that has been viewed more than 20,000 times on Facebook, shows brash Rolls-Royce, Mercedes and Range Rover drivers beeping their horns all along the Walsall Road and at the Tower Hill junction.<\/p>\n<p>During the continuous blasting of horns, a trio can be seen hanging from a blacked-out Range Rover Evoque, with one offender attempting to stop traffic with his hand so the car could pass through.<\/p>\n<p>In another image, a passenger can be seen perched on the side of a moving blue Mercedes convertible.<\/p>\n<p>The video has angered local residents, with many branding the latest actions as disrespectful.<\/p>\n<p>A resident who lives on Walsall Road, who didn\u2019t want to be named, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve seen constant issues with anti-social behaviour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Councillor for Perry Barr, Jon Hunt added: \u201cIt really is shocking. It\u2019s time the car-cruising injunction was enforced. First the bikers then this &#8211; all at the same junction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;We received reports of people in cars causing nuisance on Newton Road in stationary traffic shortly after 5.00pm last night (19 July).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As no criminal offences were disclosed, officers didn\u2019t attend.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26944\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-2-421x420.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-2.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-3-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-3-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-3-527x420.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0_BADSHAH-TROUBLE-3.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos erupted during rush hour on Wednesday 18 July along Walsall Road,\u00a0Great Barr\u00a0 when a convoy of luxury super car drivers brought the city junction to a standstill\u00a0 with some people risking their lives by hanging out of a Range Rover. A video that has been viewed more than 20,000 times on Facebook, shows brash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[1276,1274,1275],"class_list":["post-26943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-great-barr","tag-horns-blasted","tag-walsall-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}