NSW to crush hoons’ cars
November 12, 2007 by Matt Brogan
NSW Premier Morris Iemma plans to introduce legislation whereby hoons’ cars will be destroyed in controlled destructive tests. The video footage will then shown to the perpetrator in what is hoped will curb what he cites as “potentially lethal, property-destroying, anti-social behaviour”.
“The modified, loud and often illegal vehicles confiscated from car hoons will be smashed to pieces in our crash labs, the results filmed and analysed, and the wrecks shown to other young drivers as a warning,” Mr Iemma said.
“The RTA [Roads and Traffic Authority] will also use the unique tests to investigate the potential effects of certain modifications on overall crashworthiness and we’ll show the wrecks at education days for young drivers, or at other RTA presentations,” he added.
Police Minister David Campbell has added that the footage will also be publicly aired to deter would be offenders from participating in hoon behaviour.
“Video footage of these once-prized possessions being turned into splintered, twisted scrap will be the clearest message yet to hoons that we’re serious about stamping out their behaviour and saving lives in the process.”
Four cars were confiscated over the weekend in suburban Sydney for alleged street racing. The more sensible among us would suggest that perhaps more initiative need be focused on organised off-street racing such as Drag Safe.
CarAdvice would be interested in your opinions on this issue. Do you feel the proposed legislation would solve the hoon issue or should the Government invest more heavily in driver education and organised off-street events?
Source: AAP
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I think you should stick with ME as a name its easier to reply too…hehehe
No speeding tickets yet? Even with speed cameras ?
I have nothing against the police ,I wouldn’t be one for quids the crap they put up with,but targeting modified cars purely to prove a point is wrong.
Hi ME,
I can relate to that one mate, being followed. Not to list places, times, etc. But it was well over 40km distance and I can assure STEVO that I had not done a thing wrong. I was eventually pulled over for a “Random” Licence Check (what the hell is that anyway), and let go of course having not done a thing wrong.
But my point stands, it’s intimidation – as I think CASEY mentioned, and it’s unfair. All I had done wrong was to look young (lucky me) and drive a classic 70’s muscle car (lucky me again).
Cheers Matt
So true Matt……guess thats why we don’t get pulled over and and booked any more cause where old! Imagine if Roy hadn’t of fought his conviction it was left to some poor 22 year old to stand up in court and explain the evidence………you think he would have had the same result as the smarter more articulate over 30 year old had ?
I doubt it!
I would like to see the proof that this helps in the road toll!
BM bet you’re happy i’ve got a shorter name back!! LOL
hahaha…..yep along with others too !
Anti spam word was BMW ……couldn’t resist!
So remind me again ….where is the XA at the moment,Tonyn?
What issue of Street Machine is that coming out in?
So wheres NM/Klink?
God, NM’s name is too long,LOL! It was better when he had KFC. 20 to 1 just had a quick moment of Craig Lowndes’ Bathurst win last year, pretty crap.
Iaaaaaaaam baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack….Ha Ha Ha Ha
Where you been? Not still debit collecting? Hate to be a builder at least in our business its no cash no car. hahaha
Even in the workshop it was the same!
weeelllcccooommmeee baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack….Ha Ha Ha Ha
Anti spam word was BMWM3 spooky!
NM nothing to say to Stevo….I was so looking forward to some of your eloquent language!
Right you are the squire Missile, seems like trusting sidekick TOYOTA PAUL is not around.
Missile. Speaking of tools in workshop, are there any tools on here as seems sedate as
Yep your not wrong, don’t tell me your now missing Paul?
Seems that Stevo on this blog was it for the day!
AndrewM I think is on stress leave still…..hehehehe.
Tonyn and I have been chatting on and off line a lot of the day!
lol…. yeah we chatted on and off today!!
I have lent my GT to a ford dealer… trusting huh! they have it in a FPV Display!
It is supposed to be in a upcomming street machine fords magazine, no set date yet!
Your still up?
Very trusting……
How many pics did they take of it?
Time to rumble again at Simmons Plains this weekend…
I am off for the night, talk tomorrow!
So BM, you only want people to comment that can afford to get on the computer every five minutes to have a whine and be regulars. Very boring! Sorry, I have a life to lead, but yes, I do enjoy picking up on some of the comments on this blog, but no, I don’t take it so seriously, as you and others do. I realise we all have a point of view and on this occasion I could offer a point of view from another perspective.
Yes, traffic branch cops give me the shits too. My mod cars, although not grand include, RS 2000, XW GT, XD 351 ESP 4sp, Cordia Turbo (don’t know what I was thinking there!) and now, I’m in family mode (yes wish I had bought the hard top XA too, but didn’t…spent it on the kids going to school).
Point is, you get d…heads in every profession, cops included. But generally they are only doing a job. You whinge about the laws they enforce, but hey, they don’t write ‘em. You haven’t addressed the point that it is the politicians that draft the laws and pass them, having consideration to all the local members who YOU vote for, voting on the legislation. If you don’t like the laws, tell your local members, change them, and then they won’t hassle me to having to enforce them.
I love a mod car as much as anyone, but like I say, if you want to be a tool, do the wrong thing, get caught on the 99th time you done it, don’t whinge. Simple. Don’t do the wrong thing, enjoy your car hobby and leave the fun for the track, the most that will happen is having to pull over occasionally for a sus. and then get the nod to drive off. If you hang out with tools, you’ll get treated like one…and don’t tell me at the street car meets everyone behaves themselves. You don’t see too many cop hassles at organised car swaps and meets, only the tool squeezer ones at McDonalds.
But hey, I’ve never written up an XA hardtop. My favourite. You’d be right in my neck of the woods.
I and most other cops love writing up Porsches and BMWs. They can afford it but put on the biggest blue. Problem is most car enthusiast run into only TRAFFIC COPS. Perhaps I won’t have such a problem with this blog if you confine your comments to Traffic Cops!!! Not popular with anyone, but someone has to do it to prevent anarchy on the streets.
Hey Mat, some random licence checks actually come up with a car load of stolen property, taken from your house whilst you were out with your mates in the mod car. Also find a surprising number of amphet labs in boots. Bread and butter for cops. People don’t just come up to us with their illegal booty, we do have to go lookin, and unfortunately the price to pay is most people have nothing to hid and DO have a licence. Inconvenient but a small price to pay. But perhaps we should just drive around waiting for the REAL CRIMINALS to put their hands up! Don’t hold your breath.
Leave comments, be back in the morning.
yeah still up, they took about 30 to 40 photos? yeah i trust the guys where it is, its my mate who owns the BMW dealer too so were good mates!
GO DJR at simmons plains… i will be at work tryint to sell and watch the fords!!!
Stevo while i understand what your saying i think this blog is directed at highway patrol/ traffic cops so i wouldnt get so beaten up about it…. you did admit just then but police do target some types of cars….
Heh, I must look like a crack head then, seem to get random license checks even when I’m in a base model Fiesta. I can see your point, perhaps we need to look at things from the other side of the fence too, but I just wish some cops would take that attitude too. Have a good one.
Agreed. Unfortunately I have to sit next to some of the tools you talk of for an 8 hour shift, but generally am senior man and therefore concentrate on the blondes, not the cars. Gotta get some enjoyment.
good one stevo, there has to be some enjoyment to your job hey!
Ahhhh he’s human after all :) Joking Stevo. Enjoy your day mate.
suprising, i never get pulled over in my GT (touchwood) other than to let the law enforcment people have a closer look… as enthuiasts!
I hope he is human… i guess you could be robocop… hehehe
Oh look Stevo came back…….
Of course I want you to have more comments on the site! I guess as the Director of a Company I can afford to spend more time posting on this great site……cause Im not spending time watching Blondes!!!hahahah
I thought I had made the point though that Cops dont know what there looking at ,so amending laws wont fix anything if they still keep booking you for wrong mods. My hubby reminded my last night about the time we were driving the XAGT Coupe with a 671 hanging out of the bonnet when a policeman pulled us over for a look…….”is it a V8 ” he says! ………….RIGHT !
As you say Stevo there are bad eggs in every profession..I just don’t want them targeting me !
Your forgiven if you have owned an XW GT and the ESP…last of the Clevelands! Was your XW a Winsor or a Cleveland?
69 or 70 model I guess Im asking!?
Guess Im hoping your not from W.A ……..cause I don’t want you targeting the M3 hehehehe
Sorry for the late reply if you’ve checked back in.
Windsor in the XW but loved the Cleveland in the XD (not XE).
And Queenslander until my blood changes colour, not likely any time soon. Safe in WA, but as said, XAs my favourite, you’d be right!
Shall continue to keep you on the straight and narrow though!
going a bit off topic…. see ford has announced they are reviewing the FPV Territory… trying to make it look more agressive…. thank god!!
That was a poor attempt by FPV! reminded me of tickford days!
Ah so a 69 XWGT……..bet you wished you still owned that like the rest of us that have since sold a lot of Aussie muscle cars.
Yet another QLD on the site…geez!
hahaha…….I guess I will be checking in my mirror here then in case you have any colleges on the lookout for me then !
I am with you Tonyn……it was a pathetic attempt by FPV.
It is no good saying if you don’t race you won’t need to worry. my 17 year old P plater son was driving his old 1.3 litre stock standard Suzuki Swift out of the Pizza Hut car park where he had a job delivering. it was wet, the first time for weeks, as he left his tyres squealed for a few seconds (he said it was the wet caught him by surprise). There is no suggestion he was racing or speeding but he was booked for doing a burn out and his car confiscated. The cops were in a car in the car park. If it happens again his car is confiscated and sold! Is this fair?
not at all bruce, that is what i think everyone is talking about, the police do go too far sometimes!
What the hell…
That is going too far. I’m sure that many officers would be shocked to see nice cars similar to what their kids may even have crushed to scrap with thousands of cash and hours spent on it.
Fair enough don’t be irresponsible, but why not give the driver a chance to realise what they are doing before traumatising them. I’m sure many people at a young age have done stupid things that aren’t safe and it’s a phase that runs cold for most. How about confiscation of the vehicle for 3 months and in order to retrieve the vehicle, they have to pass a “Responsible Driving” course where they see graphical videos and images of what happens when it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt…take all the fun out of driving like a hoon and show the logic of it, perhaps a 3-day course? Also go over the vehicles for any illegal mods too. If the driver continued to be a hoon, then why not confiscate the vehicle and sell it at an auction? That way the police force would have more income and the car should end up in the hands of a responsible driver (ensuring their record is clean).
Another arising problem could be that if someone crushed the wrong person’s / group’s car, there could be some crazy gangs/mafias, etc that could retaliate…despite the consequence of prison. Not saying it will happen but it’s possible as anything is.
It should be properly thought through. This took me 10 minutes to think of a solution which leads to a safer and friendlier outcome. If Morris Iemma stopped taking his power-trip pills and used his brain, a much better solution could be arranged.
Not only that, most accidents aren’t caused by modified or illegal vehicles but by unmodified vehicles with a bad driver or unroadworthy. Usually high, tired, peer pressured, unaware or drunk. Every driver should learn that whenever crossing the road/lane changing or merging that they should not only check if there is a gap…but the SPEED they are going as well. That’s what catches most out in accidents. There are idiots on the roads that go in excess of speed and a lot of drivers assume that they are doing 50, 60 or whatever, when really they could be going 3 times that (hoon or real emergency). This would help in high speed crashes, even though in excess of such speed is totally irresponsible, it does still happen and when it does, it’s very grim. It’s all a part of driver awareness and hazard perception.
Proper training in a legally modified vehicle would ensure safer roads…I’m sure many would pay to have a professional help them control their modified car instead of being overconfident and really not knowing the limits of what can happen on a public road such as oily surfaces, wet, muddy, etc. Mastering your vehicles in any condition (even pedestrians crossing the road and braking hard) would increase reflex reactions and minimise the chances of casualties or fatalities of the driver, passengers or pedestrians.
Thanks for your time.
Why dont we just cut off the hands of people who talk on there mobile phones while driving?
This just means people will use fake plates when going out and if they do see flashing lights they will just leg it from the cops.
“if i stop they crush my car if i keep going and they catch me they crush my car”
There is nothing to loose then…
People need to put there thinking caps on when they are talking shit in politics.
After just reading basically every post on this message board there are good points form both sides.
I have to say i drive 2 cars the first being a 4 door family car that i have never been pulled over in. And my Race built car road registered i drive occasionally on weekends. That gets pulled over every time i drive it. and usually end up with a defect for somehting that was eaither a. legal on the car or b. somehting sutpid like no H pattern on a gear knob as a rust bucket with blown rings is belting blue smoke down the highway 10k’s over on bald tyres. Biast much? On several instances i have had police ridicule my rwd nissan and say why would you evan bother with this? Anyway back to the point
It’s funny how people say Oh they are police they never do anything wrong they are the law we must obey. That is tarring a specific group with one brush. Just like they do to us car enthusiasts. Sure there are police out there who drink drive home sell drugs and arms and all sorts of ridiculous things. And there are also idiots who decide to do 200k’s through george street in there mothers lancer they put stickers and an air filter on.
There are extremes to both sides. I for one have never been treated by respect when being pulled over by a member of the NSW Highway Patrol. They allways follow you turn on the siren geton the loud speaker “Pull over driver” in the middle of peak hour traffic on paramatter road when u are coming home late form work.
And it is always for a random breath test that they happen to randomly do a u turn chase you 500 meters down the road then decide to say “we are now going to perform a defect inspection” sit you there for half an hour while they sit in there car reading your engineer papers test every light in the car. ask you to rev your motor to see if you have a blow off valve.
I for one am sick of it! what sort of society do we live in. Its like american police walking down the street seeing a man of African descent and saying sir we are now going to search you for drugs and weapons when he was doing nothing wrong. there was a reporting of a robbery get in the back of the car your going to jail.
If this isnt police flexing the old authority muscle then i dont know what is. I would for once in my life like a Highway patrol officer to show me the respect i show him, rather then you having to put your tail in between your legs stroke his ego and suck his cock in the hope he wont send you to the EPA for something you have had checked twice!
How many times have people here been to a bar been asked to leave because you are intoxicated “after 2 beers” refuse ot leave and then get man handled by the man for being a public menance. Then you ask for the police officers name or badge number so u can report him u end up with cuffs on and taken around the back and being belted. But no people dont think these things happen “if you where just sitting there doing nothing its because you stood up and said hey thats not right i havnt done anything wrong and htey dont want to hear it”
Same thing with this law officer i wasnt speading thats it out of the car dont get smart with me brings in a tow truck stretchs the almighty power trip and shows that person who was boss so he can go home trying to feel better about himself.
Police are a public Service…
yet when my car gets broken into they come 1 week later to take prints.
Police should start policing criminals… how many times have you seen “bikies” cruising down the m4 over the speed limit past coppers through traffic and they do nothing.
This country has to wake up to its self.
We should be able to vote about what goes on in our country. we should have a say in the future of how we run this country. Not be told like children this is the way it is deal with it. And for speaking my mind like this people will tarnish me with the he is anti social brush because i dont like to bend over and take it up the ass. Australia needs to grow some balls and let the people work out what is best for this country.
so we are still bandade fixing every thing.
1.driver traning
2.if you insist on theft of some ones property then at least auction it of and th eproceeds go to accident rehabilitation .
and thridly who polices the police as i have met to many corrupt ones over the years to trust them with anything.
i worked in the security industry in sydney and seen what they are realy like not the public image that they advertise
this laws are stupid,i am a normal person(have a job, dont do drugs, dont fo around starting fights, dont get involved in any type of crime)but i do burn outs in my car and drift, yes i know its dangerous and will continue doing it untill i wont see those things as very xiting anymore, i do it only in places where i know i want hit any 1 (industrial area on weekends) and i only do it when i am the only person in the car and say there is a cop that sees me doin it? wat?? i get my car confiskated?? for having a lilttle bit of fun that couldnt hurt any 1 but me, i just see that as unfair and it would only piss me off and make me do more stupid things and stuff my life up over nothing.they should just give harsh jail time to ppl that crash their cars while doing something stupid with the car and in process cousing injuri to other ppl or take their licence away for a very long time. so far the only ppl that smashed my cars are all mature ppl who were not speeding or doing any thing that would be considered hooning, if government is serious about ppls lives y not teach those ppl who drive by the speed limit and still crash their cars, once i got a bad head concusion as a result of such mature and so called good drivers who drive by speed limit but cant even control their cars at speed limits, but no they wana pik on me who hasnt lost a point on a driving licence, never scratched my car or any body elses car. i say get a life u stupid government
Hypocrites ..and why because generation X and Y did not invent modifying cars grandpa did back in the 1930s and you did making hot rods of the 1950s and now that you don’t do that kind of thing no more makes you decide its a good idea to ban it. so seeing you don’t listen to the latest music any more perhaps you should ban that to. No music made before 1980 to be allowed to be played on the radio. Just because your not interested in dancing better ban that wile your at it. How narrow minded is it to say if you have a modified car to be a individual is to label you as a hoon, well lets put a different perspective on this shall we, do you own a 4×4 ? did you put driving lights on it ? if you did then that illegal that’s a non factory accessory and your landcruser can now be confiscated,, how about a bull bar ? illegal, super diggers ( tires & rims ) illegal, tow bar oops illegal caught 3 times driving that 4×4 of yours its going to be confiscated and sold to raise revenue for the government, and why because YOU ARE A HOON, you are driving a modified car, What’s that you don’t go around drag racing or doing burnouts well nether do i so why am i a hoon ?. Now i hear you saying oww that’s just rubbish they would never do something like that well guess what ? The can and they already have i have known heaps of people that drive dead stock standard cars that have never even had a parking ticket before in their life that have 3 kids and a job and have been driving to work at 7am to be booked for having thous little fog lights under the bumper bar and now become of these new laws the cars can be locked up, who do you think is going to be next on the chopping block when all the “hoon cars” have been crushed or sold and de-modified ? I think its fantastic that if you spend heaps of money making your car one of a kind that you are now going to lose your car when you have done nothing but drive to work of a morning. Let me ask you, when you drive past a car park full of hotted up cars and the youth of today standing around chatting and looking under the bonnets of the car parked beside them do you say to your self ” look at all thous bloody hoons some one should do something about them” ? yes indeed they should, they should make car mod-ing illegal hey so all thous young people instead of spending 1000s of hr working on their car can spend 1000s of hrs at the pub or club and get a new hobby like smoking the latest drug like ICE or Crack or shooting heroin or something constructive like that so then you can have your house broken into and all you stuff stolen, well come on sitting around doing drugs all night is much better then being in the garage spry painting or installing a stereo ? I would like to know how many car accidents are from modified cars compared to old age drivers or compared to normal cars. id also like to know why ever time i see a cop car it is never doing the speed limed or why i saw a highway patrol officer talking on his mobile phone whilst driving the other day marked police car. I would also like to know why i heard on my mats scanner wile watching tv the other week a police officer say that he had his car off the clock at over 240kph to catch up to some one doing 130kph on the highway and last of all id like to know what gives you the right to class me as a HOON and a danger to the public because i drive a modified car and have got every point left on my licence. I would be proud of my son for building a one of a kind car, spending his money on something like that and not pissing it up against the wall or taking drugs,,, just face it this is revenue raising and publicity stunt at its finest. our charming media getting on the band wagon and dramatising every thing to make more money. custom cars unsafe OMG what a joke i will pit my 25yr old modified car against your bran new car any day of the week in the form of handling, braking and reliability, i have never been booked for doing burnouts or drag racing so why am i a hoon ? if my car was stock standard it would have been written off many times by now form all the silly old idiots that don’t know how to give way or use roundabouts if i didn’t have spots brakes and spots suspension then you would be paying for increased insurance costs.. it wasn’t a hoon that wrote off my last car 4 years ago by pulling out in front of me, nope it wasn’t,, it was a 82yr old bloke on his way to the dog track that was booked for neg driving and i didn’t see that in the news,, and why ? because its not sensational enough. if it happened to be some one in a hotted up car then that would have been national news, “Hoons strike again when will it end” . I very much doubt if these comments will even be published but some of you need to realize we are not all sheep some of us like to be different and not all have the same looking cars as a million other people do, some of us modified car drives have kids and jobs and don’t drink don’t take drugs, don’t drag race and don’t kill people on the weekends and some of us think that YOU are hypocrites for spending half your life doing what you have now banned us from doing, so next time you think about getting a winch for your 4×4 or bad mouth someone for having a done up car you might just think about some of the things you have done over the years. I believe in karma and in case you don’t know what that is it is when you are in hospital dyeing of ass cancer and asking god what you ever did to deserve it, you might think about how you have stoped some one from doing something they love because it doesn’t interest you, Because you think that having a trunk full of giant speakers makes the person having them a idiot really makes YOU your self a idiot because you don’t understand not the other way around, Hopefully you will realize that if the government keeps making laws for the sake of making laws or to make it look like their earning their massive pay checks and new laws everyday get made because the media decide to flog a dead horse because it sells then one day the people will say we have had enough and their will be civil upheaval or worse still some one might take away something that you enjoy doing heaven forbid.
Chris, I agree with a lot of what you say, but please use paragraphs.
One giant sentence makes a long post like that VERY hard to read.
I wonder if all the opponents to this legislation would take a different view if their best friend, mother, brother or grandma etc etc were killed or left in a vegetative state by these reckless idiots. Pull your head in, take a look around, families are being destroyed by the carnage on our roads. Its simple, dont do the wrong thing and you dont lose your car. These laws arent tough enough do deter all you dickheads
my car and my mates car was taken off us for alleged street racing and we sure werent which really pisses me off the most i worked so hard for my car and they just took i away for no good reason i admit i love to thrash a car here and there but when i get accused for somthing i did not do it really gets me goin ,,, plus they did not have us on camera or radar and they didnt even confiscate our license nthis is just ridiculus but i am fighting it in court i have fou witnesses has this ever happened to any body if it has let me no what you went through so that i can prepar for this shit!!!!
Dear Baz and other likeminded people maybe your should do some research before you open your mouth and make yourself look even more ignorant and stupid then you already appear.
There were 169 hooning-related accidents involving injury and property damage in the period 1999 to 2004.
According to road safety statistics of the Queensland Road Safety Authority (Queensland Transport 2005) they indicate that there were over 100,000 accidents in Queensland in the period 1999–2003 and therefore represent roughly one quarter of one per cent of these accidents, yes that right – 0.4% of all accidents in QLD were coursed by hoons!!!
Quoted from a year1 law student
The new anti-hoon laws override the presumption of innocence”
Australian citizens should have the right to a fair trial, the anti-hoon laws do not provide this because the presumption of innocence before guilt means that before you can be punished for your suspected wrong-doing you should get a trial in court. The hoon laws allow officers on the spot impound rights at their discretion.
The target for the punishment is not accurate in some circumstances where the hoon is driving a vehicle other than their own, this creates a situation where the innocent is being punished for a crime they didn’t even commit.
Another problem is that discretionary powers vary from officer to officer, and fair and just enforcement is not possible when police are given the power to impound what can be $100,000 + of some ones, (or someone else’s) property.
Being a strict liability offence means that it is almost impossible to prove innocence, unless you have evidence to present in court that proves you didn’t commit the crime.
(End Quote)
I would strongly suggest that before becoming another mindless pawn in the media’s dribble you decide to look into things a bit further.
Ps BAZ find something better to do then watch a current affair that crap will destroy your brain cells.
u cops cant catch me!!!!
the fact remains,by enforcing unjust powers to the authorities,to assume whom they like,instead of validating proof of actuall street racing,them whom commited an accident,them whom have qualified truly for the penalty,it will undoubtably lure more innocent parties,to engage in a unsafe highspeed police chase,because its well known fact there are lame +cowardly autorities who like to play god,as opposed to going about their jobs in a justified +ethical manner.personally if ye ask me,coppers that dislike decent entuiasts + APPRECIATE TASTEFULL CAR RESTORATIONS ARE POOFTERS IN MY BOOK(EVEN THE MISSUS AGREES ON THAT ONE)CONVERSLY ANY COPPER WHOMS WORTH THEIR RESOLVE WOULD REALISE THE BEST METHOD TO AVOID UNDUE CARNAGE IS TO BACKOFF YE SPEED CHASES TO 170KPH AROUND URBAN AREAS,THAT WAY IT WILL LESSEN THE RISK OF UNDUE EXCESSIVE CARNAGE WHICH IS TENFOLD TO THE SUSPECTED CRIMES.
ABOVE 170KPH NO ONE NOT EVEN THE BEST F1 DRIVER IN THE PLANET COULD COUNTER AN UNEXPECTED EVENT IN LOCAL URBAN AREAS.THE SMART COPPERS KNOW THIS ,ASLONG AS THEY GOT THE REGO PLATE,NO WORRIES THEY FIX THE CULPRITS THEN.
ABOUT TIME LEMMA WISENS UP TO HIDS EXISTENCE + ATTEMPT TO LURE A MORE COMPROMISED STRAGETY TO A/LESSEN THE POTENTIAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH SPEED CHASES+ B/RE DEFINE THE POWERS TO A MORE COMPROMISED + ETHICAL NATURE OF OBTAINED EVIDENCE BEFORE AUTHORISING THE TOWTRUCK TO TO YE CAR AWAY.
IF THE COMMUNITY AND POLICE CAN CO OPERATE IN A MORE RESPONSABLE + ETHICAL MANNER,THEN I AM CERTAIN THERE WOULD BE MORE RESPECT TO ALL INSTEAD OF THE BRAVE + JUST OFFICERS.
GENERALLY THEM WITH REASONING + UNDERSTRANDING + LIKING TO DECENT MODIFIED CARS ARE WORTH THEIR SAK,AS FOR THE BEANCOUNTING LEMMA HJ STEREOTYPE LAMER ASSUMERS,BURN IN HELL,YE AINT ABOVE GOD.
Hoons are terrorists and should be dealt with like terrorists. Crushing their cars is not enough…
OMG!!!!! how rude is this lawit should not be passed.. its cruel why not just auction hte cars or something crushing is a waste and in many ways causes more problems. people are still going to keep goin at just watch us!!!!!!!!!
i drive a classic “hoon” car i have a toyota supra and its all 100% legal the only mod been adjustable suspension.i got pulled over first day i had it and the copper even said to me to watch out for the highway patrol guys cause they will defect me for it been too low even tho she found nothing wrong with it.
another story in my old school falcon first week on the road after 3 years of restoring driving down the main street cops do an illegal U-turn at the traffic lights and pulled me over for a “”random”" breath test (after i decided to be a smart arse to them and go round the block to end up behind them) then tried to defect a 45 year old falcon i near sedan, he told me to make the exhaust quieter (nothing wrong with it) so i didnt fix it i saw that same copper several times after he pulled me over and he never agin pulled me over to tell me to get my exhaust fixed.
are they trying to discourage us not to mod our cars when they have modified patrol highway cars supposedly to catch us hoons i guess. but do cops have nothing better to do than pull over a car that has obviously had tousands of hours and money spent on it. the amount of times i get some guy in a little hatch back with fusion stickers on the back window,coming up beside me at the lights wanting to race in lasers or protons or something.
but seriously crushing a car for an offence is rediciolus, if more events like off street drags were organised and the RTA and NSW police got on top and promoted and sponsered them, then everyone will be happy cause hoons wont have to race on the street to see if they can beat that car.
Yet a drink driver can go back to his car in the morning when he is sober and drive it around until he appears in court.
Stupid law by stupid uniformed politicians.