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A second man is facing court action after allegedly confronting boy racers in his street.
Police are investigating an assault complaint against Tauranga father of three Mike Anderson after he allegedly hauled a boy racer out of a car that had been doing skids on his road.
The 40-year-old's case follows that of Ed Murray, who is vowing to fight serious charges stemming from an incident in which he allegedly drove into a boy racer car doing burnouts in a carpark near his house.
Murray, 52, appeared in Tauranga District Court yesterday charged with reckless driving, assault with a blunt instrument, and threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm after he allegedly hit the car with his four-wheel-drive on June 17.
The Welcome Bay father of five told the Herald he would fight the charges all the way to a jury trial if necessary, and had no regrets about driving into 18-year-old Daniel Machin's car.
"I'd do it again tomorrow," he said. "I'm sick of them. They're like a plague."
He said boy racers had crashed through his front fence, smashed into a tree, and narrowly missed knocking his 8-year-old daughter off her bike before the incident.
"I've got no love for those pricks."
His sentiment was matched by Mr Anderson, who was coming out of his driveway with his family when they spotted two boy racer cars driving side by side and doing skids on a neighbour's grass.
Mr Anderson's wife was driving because his licence had been suspended for speeding, but when he told her to chase them, she was reluctant, so he got behind the wheel.
He followed the cars, forcing one off the road, and then dragged the teenage driver out through the window as he tried to put the car into gear to flee.
"I would not hesitate to do it again," Mr Anderson said.
"My neighbours have kids who walk down there. My own kids play down there on their bikes. We've just had a gutsful really."
The incident happened on a Sunday morning about three weeks ago and Mr Anderson's wife called police, as did one of the boy racers.
When officers arrived, Mr Anderson told them he was a suspended driver and is now awaiting a summons to appear in court on related charges.
He has also been told police are investigating a complaint of assault against him from the car's teenage driver.
Mr Anderson said he had learned his lesson about speeding and had made a mistake driving while suspended, but he took matters into his own hands because police had failed to act against boy racers when he and his wife had called them in the past.
He said boy racers had been plaguing their street ever since they moved in 18 months ago, and the neighbourhood had formed a support group to try to deal with the problem.
