Hoon Laws In The News

[_8OO5TED_]

Majority Rules....

the 'majority' of the public want 'hoons' outlawed so the government responds....

I guess its only a matter of years before we (young car enthusiasts) are the majority.

Edited June 4, 2006 by _8OO5TED_

[scathing]

Maybe. I suppose it depends on your age.

I get the feeling my generation (currently late 20's) will always be the minority, especially in terms of political clout.

I saw in the paper on Friday that school kids went out protesting, something most people my age just don't do (mainly because we are all too busy working or something). And if there's something I've learnt while in a large organisation, its people who chuck the biggest whinges that eventually get their way.

That's how the baby boomers did it back in the 60's, when they were long haired hippies smoking weed and skiving off work. That's how they're doing it now as moneyed-up corporate types or retirees.

And I figure its how the current schoolage kids, who unlike us get the idea of activism, are going to get political opinion to back them once the baby boomers move on to the 3 Series BMW or Audi A4 in the sky.

When I was a teen the car scene wasn't like it was today. You didn't have the Auto Salon culture, and people who did up cars were either street machiners or street racers (aside from your track going types). Most import cars were scruffy "drift cops" rather than the primped and posed cars that infest the scene today.

If cars stop being a fashion accessories (and we all know how fickle fashion is) there won't be support for people in nice cars, but there will be support to get gas guzzling and polluting machines out of our increasingly damaged environment.