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People who drive like idiots around other cars deserve to be punished, just the other day I seen a yellow hsv or monaro or something with plates GTO 143 or similar, going from lane to lane trying to get around cars for about 5ks down the freeway, and he ended up a whole 2 cars infront of me. Hero, fag, same.

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There would be less hoons endangering lives if we didn't have morons governing our roads with immoral motives for doing such a poor job. Anybody can see we need stricter, more practical driving assessments (like AHG advanced driver training, not a pathetic hazard perception test done on a computer). Is it going to happen? No, because they don't want to spend the extra money on it and the more people who get a licence the more money they make. We could introduce more complexes for legal burnout pads, drag strips and circuits giving hoons a legal alternative to get their speed fix. Hmm no once again that would cost money and then there would be less people on the road to fine. I know, lets do what they do every year and increase the number of speeding cameras and increase fine penalties because that seems to have lowered the road toll for the past decade :D

Sure many of us may have done the silly stuff, but many of us know when it is the appropriate time and place to do so without endangering anybody else's life. Weaving in and out of traffic, running red lights, triple digit speeds in a 50 zone, etc... you can't blame TT/ACA for doing hoon stories like these when there are idiots doing stuff like that.

These threads always cause me to rant lol government authorities anger me with their stupidity.

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There would be less hoons endangering lives if we didn't have morons governing our roads with immoral motives for doing such a poor job. Anybody can see we need stricter, more practical driving assessments (like AHG advanced driver training, not a pathetic hazard perception test done on a computer). Is it going to happen? No, because they don't want to spend the extra money on it and the more people who get a licence the more money they make. We could introduce more complexes for legal burnout pads, drag strips and circuits giving hoons a legal alternative to get their speed fix. Hmm no once again that would cost money and then there would be less people on the road to fine. I know, lets do what they do every year and increase the number of speeding cameras and increase fine penalties because that seems to have lowered the road toll for the past decade ;)

Sure many of us may have done the silly stuff, but many of us know when it is the appropriate time and place to do so without endangering anybody else's life. Weaving in and out of traffic, running red lights, triple digit speeds in a 50 zone, etc... you can't blame TT/ACA for doing hoon stories like these when there are idiots doing stuff like that.

These threads always cause me to rant lol government authorities anger me with their stupidity.

Given the choice between spending money to fix a problem & not spending money the government will always pick the latter. Even at the expense of making everyones lives that bit more difficult. Unfortunately it has reached the point whereby traffic policing is more about PR than anything else.

As for your second point - well I don't agree. The sort of clown who choses to do burnouts on the roads or generally drives like an idiot is almost never seen at any of the regular track events run by various organisations. The requisite planning, commitment & discipline is well beyond the reach of these intellectually challenged folk.

What upsets me the most is the police & government PR doesn't bother differentiating between dickheads driving rubbish but supposed performance cars & people who might otherwise be referred to as car enthusiasts. The next time I hear of a bog standard Commode and/or Foulcan referred to as "high powered" I think I will throw up.

Remember car enthusiasts are not hoons & hoons are not car enthusiasts.

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hey guys, saw the news on channel 9 earlier and there was a topic on car hoons in wa. one of the hoons were driving a black 32 gtst. Man, these ppl giv our club a bad reputation!!! ;)

sure it wasnt dark blue? was it a 4 door

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sure it wasnt dark blue? was it a 4 door

lol people didnt read my post properly...

MY CAR WAS GONE by the time the media arrived.

there was a black 32 coupe with black 6 spoke rims (the one with stickers all over it and the owner got interveiwed)

the silver s15 was also there still, these were the two cars that were on the news

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Sure many of us may have done the silly stuff, but many of us know when it is the appropriate time and place to do so without endangering anybody else's life.

THAT is the key right there, that and assuming that everyone else on the road is a dickhead is how I survive ;)

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Why must the media pick on the import drivers when there are commodores getting done for hoonism..

http://www.police.wa.gov.au/MediaAndPublic...leases/7486.pdf

and 35yo junkie bitches in dodgy cars getting their cars seized under hoon laws too!

http://www.police.wa.gov.au/MediaAndPublic...leases/7455.pdf

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Why must the media pick on the import drivers when there are commodores getting done for hoonism..

http://www.police.wa.gov.au/MediaAndPublic...leases/7486.pdf

and 35yo junkie bitches in dodgy cars getting their cars seized under hoon laws too!

http://www.police.wa.gov.au/MediaAndPublic...leases/7455.pdf

Haha i used to live in seville grove

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i for one am a bit tried of the busted ass, worn out excuse that it's the governments fault there are hoons. (not that i'm a fan of the government mind you). how does not having free performance driving courses or not having a legal place to hoon, have anything to do with people hooning on public roads?

if anything if would only incourage it. "i've done a high performance course so now i know everything so i'm going hoon on the streets" or " i've had plenty of practice hooning on the skid pan so now i know everything so i'm going to hoon on the streets."

Whether the police wanna admit it or not, hooning has been around since the days of the Model T ford, probably even the horse and cart it's nothing new, and i'm just as many ppl got done for this type of behaviour 10 years ago as this year. The media is just making a big this about cause ppl are bored with hearing about home many ppl die in Irag every day.

Some people for a rush do drugs, jump out of planes, bungee jump, whatever. Some people hoon. Not saying it's right or that i do it, but it's just part of being a human being. Even animals do sh1t they shouldn't do to get a rush.

Blaming it on not having somewhere to hoon or lack of training is a lame excuse. It's all about personal attitude. We all have a choice whether to hoon or not. It has nothing to do what sort of car we drive, how well we are trained or lack of facilities. It's in the damn DNA.

Am I supposed to believe the best drivers in Australia have never hooned public roads? Brock, Skaife, Richards, Lowdnes are the best, and they get to hoon legally every weekend. They don't hoon on the roads? I know for a fact one of them has before.

we need to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for our own actions. If i ever get caught hooning and have my car taken away i got no to blame but my self.

I do agreed a skid pan or the like would be worth while, but it would have to be open and manned / supervised 24/7. This might have some effect on reducing hooning.

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I dont blame the government and if i get caught i do blame my self but still it would be good to have somewhere to let off some steam. If there was somewhere that people could go and drift, circiut race there mates, or just go and smoke there tyres up and they were open regularly i know id rather do it there, but at the moment there is just no where to go.

If i win lotto ill build some where for everyone haha :)

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I do not blame government for the 'hooning' that occurs in a direct sense. However, I believe the goverment's choice of enforcement, management and resolution have much to do with the amount that occurs, and the frequency.. Also, the average Australian's view of cars and speed causes and detrimental rift between enthusiasts and (A to B) road users... In my view, if we viewed and enforced speed like the Germans do, and likewise viewed and enforced modification like the Japanese do, then Australia would be a driver's heaven...

You don't even need to get started on skid-pads, drag strips and tracks... Our roads are shitty enough! We should have super-highways like the German auto-bahnen... Can't handle 200km/ph?? Stick in the first two left lanes, and let the rest cruise past at will...

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I dont blame the government and if i get caught i do blame my self but still it would be good to have somewhere to let off some steam. If there was somewhere that people could go and drift, circiut race there mates, or just go and smoke there tyres up and they were open regularly i know id rather do it there, but at the moment there is just no where to go.

If i win lotto ill build some where for everyone haha :ninja:

You mean like these places?

http://www.motoringsouthwest.org.au

http://www.wascc.com.au

http://www.dtec.com.au

http://www.motorplex.com.au

Or these groups?

http://www.nolimitevents.com

http://www.speedeventseries.com

http://www.driftwa.com

http://www.dtec.com.au/mc-motorsport

Frankly I get tired of people whinging there is nowhere to go & yet when I turn up to track days there are half empty grids. :ninja:

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