WATCH | This local viral spinning video might be cool, but it highlights reckless endangerment

• Spinning is one of the more popular motorsport events in South Africa.

• While many support it, it can open the door for events that are not lawful.

• Arrive Alive notes that drivers performing illegal stunts could be guilty of reckless endangerment.

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Over the last few years, spinning as a motorsport code has taken a massive flight in South Africa. Given the low costs associated with running an informal event of this nature, it's not surprising that enthusiasts are flocking in their droves to form part of this code.

Sadly, while this is exciting, it does have the potential of bringing an element of unlawfulness into the equation. This is true, especially when videos of spinners performing stunts in unsanctioned spaces are posted online. There is little to no control, and onlookers are often mere meters away from severe injury or death.

Most recently, a video of a spinner putting up a show on private property surfaced online. While it can be argued that the 'performer' is doing this privately, bystanders are watching on. And separating them from the action is a vibracrete wall. As seen in the video, the spinner comes to within inches of objects on the property and the wall while someone is hanging out of the car and another in the passenger seat.Cape Town spinner Shandre Green is the driver in the video below. Wheels24's editor Janine Van der Post spoke to Green, and he had this to say: "In hindsight, while spinning in my own yard might perhaps be dangerous, it's also on private property, and because bystanders were standing outside the wall, there was some form of barrier to keep them out of the way."The WPMC at Killarney has agreed to make space for us, and steps are being taken to