Videos show burning car, fireworks in illegal Bay Area sideshows over weekend

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Monday, August 14, 2023
Videos show burning car, fireworks in illegal Bay Area sideshows
There were two illegal sideshows in the East Bay over the weekend with videos showing a car on fire and another with fireworks.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- There were two illegal sideshows in the Bay Area over the weekend.

One sideshow was in Oakland and another in Vallejo in the East Bay.

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People are seen getting dangerously close to spinning cars, some even lighting fireworks.

In another sideshow, it ended with a car fire.

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Three people are hurt and one car was removed from the water following a sideshow in Contra Costa County Saturday.

There were no reports of injuries.

This comes after Santa Rosa police in the North Bay announced a new plan to stop sideshow takeovers in neighborhoods by suing organizers for pollution.

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