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Boy racers are on the warpath as they battle tough new laws to crackdown on their behaviour.
The police minister says she won't bow down to cowardly and bullying behaviour from boy racers after a Christchurch security guard was attacked on Wednesday night in a Christchurch boy racer hotspot.
Judith Collins has vowed to fight what she calls the criminal element after boy racers threw bottles and attacked a female security guards car on the outskirts of Christchurch.
Three windows were smashed and the victim was left fearing for her life in an attack that has caused shockwaves.
Collins says it's, "actually really cowardly, bullying and clearly criminal".
It is behaviour that some now claim is in direct response to new boy racer laws announced this week, aimed at shutting down illegal street racing.
"Seeing the new laws, making them angry. That's how they're going to take it down basically, and I reckon they will go further than that," says street racer Learne Gainsford.
Talk like this holds no sway with the minister dubbed 'Crusher Collins' .
"Well they certainly wouldn't have been behaving like that when their cars are sitting in a cube in the front lawn," says Collins.
But one 'mum racer' says the new laws won't work.
"Who's going to pay for the cars after they're crushed, cause I wouldn't pay for mine," says Jenny Gainsford, the 'mum racer'.
The female victim is too wary of retaliation to speak publicly but in a statement through her employer she says that she can't understand why the mob were so angry as she had done nothing to upset them.
She says she feared for her life and safety and thought she may have to take drastic action and run over them in order to escape - a thought which terrifies her even now.
The victim of the attack says when she rounded a bend she was confronted by a mass of headlights. She says she will never forget the face of the main offender who stood in the middle of the road brandishing what looked like a wheel brace and gesturing at her.
Christchurch police say that will not stop them from upholding the law as it stands now and that there will be a strong police presence on the streets as usual this weekend.
