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As posted in Vic forum. But as it applies to everyone I thought I should share it here as well.

Victoria police catch hoon via Facebook

A 20-year-old man from Castlemaine in central Victoria has became the first person to lose two cars for good under the state's hoon legislation.

He lost his Ford Falcon sedan valued at $3,000 after being found guilty of careless driving last December.

In May this year, he was found guilty by a magistrate of driving in a manner dangerous when deliberately doing burnouts at a country highway intersection in November, 2008.

He was fined $2,000, had his licence cancelled for 18 months and was ordered to hand over his second vehicle, a 2005 Ford utility valued at $21,000.

Police were notified to the offences after a member of the public handed them photographs and video from social networking website Facebook.

Senior Constable Grant Healy from Castlemaine police said he was pleased with the decision.

"This bloke has had plenty of warnings but we have had enough of this type of dangerous behaviour," he said in a statement.

"It really does send a clear message to would-be hoon drivers that not only do we have the support of the public, we also have the support of the magistrates when it comes to getting these menaces off the road."

Police have impounded more than 8,000 vehicles from dangerous drivers since anti-hoon legislation was introduced on July 1, 2006, including more than 1,500 this year.

Sen Const Healy said the power to immediately remove dangerous drivers from the roads was another way to reduce road trauma.

Police are removing around 50 dangerous drivers from our roads every week which can only make it safer for other drivers, he said.

Around 80 per cent of drivers caught are aged 18-30 and 63 per cent are 25 and under.

Here is the link to the story and the Facebook-video: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=834597

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Shit! I better get the videos of my car drifting off my Facebook! Oh wait, they where all done at Oran Park North :)

Seriously though... how stupid would you have to be... "I'll just post up videos of me ripping skids so anyone and everyone can view them" :P

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