This time ACA were blaming modified cars for Antisocial Behaviour

[teejay]

it amazes me at the differing standards

drunk drivers can get in their car and drive again on the spot!

disgusting, makes my blood boil

[SR32]

tj, have you ever spent time in graylands? looper

(im only kidding!)

[teejay]

never graylands

i swear

[Drkside]

HAHA, Thats it I'm off to a Today Tonight Listening post with the Hoonocaust story!!!

That pictures gonna be famous TeeJay!

[stÖrmy]

I didn't even realise that properly, people caught drink driving get ***k all,

what are you talking about, all the people i know who drink drive and get cought lose there license.

i say just take the cars of these retards, impound them or auction them off. they are ****ing it up for everyone else with there shitty half-assed burn outs on the streets cause they are to poor to go do it on a track.

edit : btw, they werent blaming modified cars in that video, they were blaming the retards behind the wheel, they hardly mentioned anything about the cars.

those guys in that video are just a bunch of whingers who think burning up there tyres in the middle of the road is "COOL".

would be cool if cops were alowed to smash there faces in with those battons, ide pay to see that lol.

[Steve]

yeah, you loose your liscence for a while - how does that compare to loosing a car that is worth 10s of thousands of dollars? And you can still drive if you get brethoed and pass a reading in excess of 0.05. Under 0.08 and you get a slap on the wrist.

If you think its fair to loose your car for doing a burnout, have a think about what the repocussions are if you are drink driving. A guy I worked with killed a father of 2. He got 8 months prison. It was his third offence. People drink driving poses a far GREATER risk to society than someone doing a burnout in a carpark. Its a shame you cant see that.

Another thing, if you were to drive at 160kph in a 60 zone you would go to court and loose your liscence for a while, but chirp your wheels and you loose your car. If you think that is fair, I just hope you never end up making laws in this world.

The legal system should dispense justice. This whole car hoon car confiscation thing is just a feed of crap dreemed up by a bunch of ignorant tea totalling has beens, who have nothing better to do with their time. It is a knee jerk reaction to antisocial behaviour and a gross OVER reaction. The laws have been in place for some time to deal with dickheads on the road - its just a shame that the courts dont see fit to give appropriate punishments.

The media are jumping on the car hoon hysteria, feeding it and feeding off it all for the sake of sensationalist reporting to win viewers. Just remeber if you drive a modified car, or an import, or even a commodore that has a nice set of wheels - you too are probably being perceived as a potential hoon because of bullshit like what ACA spews out.

But hey, its your right to jump on the hysteria bandwagon. Enjoy your ride.

I agree completely with the baton statement - they could sell tickets to that one. If they wanted to sort people like that out, they would need to arrest people for being dickheads. Now that is a law I would support.

[Steve]

Another thing to consider, punishment fitting the crime.

If you fire a weapon in public, you get in trouble, if its near alot of poeple, more trouble, and if someone dies as a result - stand from under.

Now, burnout in car park, chirp wheels in public, v's drifting in built up area - all the same punishment. Its just not bloody right.

[stÖrmy]

i think its fair to lose your license for drink driving, and for doing stupid burn outs.

but chirp your wheels and you loose your car

nothing happens to you for chirping your wheels, theres a difference between chirping your wheels and doing a fkn stand still for minutes on end.

[Steve]

Nothing happens? read the fine print.

When I was a young fella, like so many others, we used to get behind the wheel of a car and see what we could do before we broke them. This usually entailed going to some out of the way industrial area, or even on dirt tracks and practicing burnouts, getting side ways etc. But nobody I knew would even think about doing it in a built up area or where there was traffic. It was a case of a time and place for everything.

Those that did decide to show off where people were around usually got stamped on pretty hard and pretty quick by the police - if not, by irate members of the public that didnt have a problem giving someone a clip around the ear for being a dickhead.

Those same laws are still in place today. Creating excessive noise, culpable driving, dangerous driving - the list goes on. This means that if someone was to be doing stupid things in inappropriate places, they could easily loose their liscence, cop huge fines and/or go to prison. Those laws still exist. Where they didnt really cut it is if someone was out of built up areas, where there was no other traffic on the roads. It was alot harder to loose your liscence and go to gaol if you restricted your hormone surges to a place that was only going to endanger yourself.

It was/is a good system, if people dont respect others, they get slammed hard - otherwise they get a slap on the wrist.

This whole car confiscation came from NZ, where it was implemented to deal with road rage - NOT car hoons. The laws to deal with car hoons already exist, and if enforced work well.

Some little no life politician, who knows nothing of the current road laws that have existed for a long time, decided to push through a new 'improved' version of NZ's new law. This results in a huge waste of time, effort and taxpayers dollars, reinventing the wheel so they can show the world what a wonderful job they are doing.

It would have been alot better if the police just started enforcing the current regulations that already exist, instead of this abomination that has no room for measure of degree or discretion.

In a society where people get good behaviour bonds for such things as theft, assault, even rape - where their actions are selfish and maliscious, why should people doing what they have done since cars were invented, be punished so harshly? You may say take the car off them, but loosing a 20 or 30 thousand dollar car, for something like doing a burnout or chirping your wheels (yes, you can loose your car for chirping your wheels) is ludicris in the face of such lenient sentences for other more severe crimes.

I had my car stolen a few years back, the guys who did it were repeat offenders. The police caught them, and offered their appologies that the low lifes that stole and damaged my car were going to get a slap on the wrist, they said probably a community based order that they just wouldnt complete anyway.

So, basically if you want to hoon, Steal someone elses car, and do it in that, cut sick, run it into gutters, and destroy the tyres and rims when you finished - may as well pinch the head deck while you are there (after all, if you get caught, the head deck was there when you left the car, so someone else must have done it). You get a suspended sentance of some lame community based order.

OR, you could take your own car out, do a burnout (only damaging your own tyres which you will pay for) and loose the car which most probably cost you thousands of dollars.

Theres another thought, do a burnout in an expensive, well built car and it will cost you alot more than if you do it in a $500 POS.

Fair isnt it.

What is the message we are putting out to society as a whole, drink driving, theft, damage to property, assault, even rape in some instances is not as bad as doing a burnout (but only if its in your own car - somebody elses is ok).

That is bloody wrong. The whole principal is just so farked up, and poorly though out.

/rant, sorry but this whole 'hoon' thing, with the new associated laws really, really shits me

[ossie_21]

i think its fair to lose your license for drink driving, and for doing stupid burn outs.

nothing happens to you for chirping your wheels, theres a difference between chirping your wheels and doing a fkn stand still for minutes on end.

Regardless, the cops can take your car. There was a thing in the paper a few weeks ago, a security guard took off from a set of lights & his tires squealed, and the car got towed.

[JXL]

jsut saw the video **** those guys are absolutely dickheads, i have no problems with the police arresting them throwing away the key and recycling their cars.

those guys are the Nth degree of the dickheads around and are the ones that wreck it for everyone else and create the stigma of this bullshit hoon stuff.

Can we organise with ACA to produce the real story on the modified car scene and stop them from only presenting worthless shits of society.

[stÖrmy]

a security guard took off from a set of lights & his tires squealed, and the car got towed.

if thats true thats kinda lame....

but i always do that in my bro's car by accident and the cops never seem to do anything, but maybe if i was in a done up skyline or something they would.

Can we organise with ACA to produce the real story on the modified car scene and stop them from only presenting worthless shits of society.

would be cool, should get a bunch of people from SAU or something to tell the real story, i dont think ACA and the rest of the community relise that there are some people who can have nice cars and not be retarded.