Have You Noticed How News Sites Only Mention Imports By Name?

[scathing]

Just saw this in the Sydney Morning Herald:

A man suspended from driving until 2012 has been caught driving twice in three hours in inner Sydney.

Redfern police charged the 29-year-old from Condell Park yesterday afternoon with driving while disqualified after officers checked his licence and found it had been suspended until 2012.

The man was granted bail about 3.30pm (AEST) to face the Downing Centre Local Court on June 5, police said.

He then walked to his Nissan Skyline, parked in Abercrombie Street at Redfern, and drove off, but was arrested a few minutes later in Newtown.

If the guy was in a Camry, Falcodore or Excel they'd probably have said "walked to his car" instead.

[Dee 33]

It's true. Discrimination at it's finest. Nothing we can do about it though.

[R32_Matt]

It was probably a shitty stock aussie delivered r31

But it sounds better for news papers

to just say that it was a Nissan Skyline cause then people will think it

was another import "hooning"

[danielson]

you see this kind of discrimination every day... and it makes me sick. they dont have a CLUE what they r on about... argh it makes me so angry

Edited May 15, 2006 by danielson

[ctjet]

i've had enough, im buying an SS

[dangerous_daveo]

Its actually a better way of reporting, people love details.

The facts are, he shouldnt have been driving the bloody thing. So maybe just MAYBE blame the driver who doesnt have a licence until 2012 (6 years away) for giving us the bad name, not the reporter.

[ctjet]

6 years!! what the hell did he do? 645km/h in a 50 zone

[edspaged2]

email sent in reply to article to SMH. lets see if i get a reply...

[lingeringsoul]

email sent in reply to article to SMH. lets see if i get a reply...

got the email address? i'd like to complain as well

[dangerous_daveo]

6 years!! what the hell did he do? 645km/h in a 50 zone

Umm, got caught without a licence more than once...

BTW, you lot complaining will just add fuel to the fire. Let it go.

[_8OO5TED_]

for your info, just recently here in WA our MP for police was recently picked up driving without a license.....

He was susequently removed from his portfolio and has since quit politics

Edited May 15, 2006 by _8OO5TED_

[edspaged2]

got the email address? i'd like to complain as well

this is the email i sent my letter to :

[email protected]

Not wanting to add fuel to the fire, but just voicing my thoughts on the situation. What he did was wrong, and he gave all of us people who drive with due care a bad name. But, the article does seem a fair bit biased, saying "He then walked to his Nissan Skyline, parked in Abercrombie Street at Redfern, and drove off, but was arrested a few minutes later in Newtown." I have never read an article where it said in a similar situation "he/she walked to their commodore...."

This does seem like the typical media pin-pointing to drivers of imported vehicles. Their definition of an imported vehicle is "turboed, relatively cheap to buy therefore dangerous".

What gets to me is that whatever happens in other states in Australia, affects our road rules here in the NT. Governments are easily influenced by issues that have been brought to us by media attention.

Now that other states have their "points system", I have heard from a police source that probably within the next 5 years, we will have a points system introduced here. Next, they will probably target our unlimited speed limits on the highway here, and thats when the shits gonna hit the fan. Has anyone ever driven from Darwin to Alice? You wouldnt want to at 110km/h. Its a long, boring proverbial ride. Hardly any road stops, unless you wanna get a a 'Wolf Creek' jobbie done to you.

My thoughts

[ToF]

for your info, just recently here in WA our MP for police was recently picked up driving without a license.....

He was susequently removed from his portfolio and has since quit politics

And I bet that's all he had to do. No license suspension or anything.

[JUNR34]

Pretty sure everyone knows by now how "Skylines" are associated with hooning, speeding etc. The newspaper are just simplely feeding to the fire cause thats what the public likes to read. Even my parents knows about how natorious skylines are and they dont know crap about cars haha.

As for our MP for the police who got caught, great public figure we have to set a fine examples for the community top job mate.

[scathing]

Has anyone ever driven from Darwin to Alice? You wouldnt want to at 110km/h.

Try from the border to Port Augusta.

Most boring day of my life.

[scathing]

Its actually a better way of reporting, people love details.

Funny how those details that everyone loves are usually left out if the driver is in a Pulsar, or Camry, or Golf.

[gts4diehard]

Yeh I have to agree, I got sick of the attention from cops in my R32.

I remember seeing a story last year of some guy who wrapped his 'car' around a tree, he was 40 yrs old. The story went ' the car left the road....' then they showed the pic of the car, it was a fully kitted out modified commodore.

Somehow the car just left the road with no help from him, if he'd been in a skyline it would have read....'40 yr old hoon loses control of his high powered nissan skyline while racing someone!'

...then again maybe the car did just leave the road on its own - it was a commodore!

[Rezz]

It's true. Discrimination at it's finest. Nothing we can do about it though.

Really?

email sent in reply to article to SMH. lets see if i get a reply...

If all the people that said 'theres nothing we can do! Oh the humanity!' actually got off their asses and did something, then things would change.

[ToF]

Really?

If all the people that said 'theres nothing we can do! Oh the humanity!' actually got off their asses and did something, then things would change.

But what can you do? Complain to the media giants???

Oh noes a couple of hoons complaining by email about discrimination that they can't even prove...

[Nexus9]

But what can you do? Complain to the media giants???

Oh noes a couple of hoons complaining by email about discrimination that they can't even prove...

got to agree with that

my girlfriend works as a PA for a state member of Parliament and every week they get literally 100-200 (up to 500 if it is a rainy week) complaints a week of hoons drifting around roundabouts, doing burnouts, revving the guts out of their cars etc in residential areas. Do you think those in charge give two farks about car enthusiasts claiming discrimination when they are copping abuse from constituents?

Believe you me, we are in the minority by a long margin and as such are fair game as far as the powers that be are concerned.

If enthusiasts are looking for someone to blame, then blame all the knobs who feel that it is okay to do this stuff in residential areas where there are people around. And if you are the type of person guilty of doing this then you have no right to complain.

If you can't help yourself then at least drive away from populated areas to do it for farks sake ... if not for your own good then at least for all the rest of the responsible car enthusiasts.

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