A "Fast and Furious” style car meet is facing calls for a ban after residents complained that streets are being turned into a racetrack. The Big Birkenshaw Takeover, organised by the Lanarkshire Outlawz group, has brought hundreds of car enthusiasts to an unlicensed event at a retail park just yards from a housing estate.
Previous events in Birkenshaw and elsewhere have seen cars racing time trials along public roads and burning rubber as they do “ donuts ” on the street - just like the antics on the Fast and Furious movie series, starring Vin Diesel and Ryan Reynolds.
The local B&M store was forced to hire a security team and spend thousands of pounds on emergency fencing to keep cars out of its car park ahead of one of the big events on Saturday night, which attracted hundreds of people.
