Team JFat
Still.. permanent loss of vehicle? Not sure I agree with that.. these hoon laws can be twisted almost anyway they want..
Loss of license yes, deserved though.
Loss of license I can agree with.Originally Posted by Jmac
Here in QLD it makes me feel as though we should all be mindless automatons. Of course we aren't and we can never improve the road tolls beyond a certain point expecting people to be something other that human. But we do expect people to be perfect behind the wheel.
High time we recognized that road quality plays an enormous role. A US push to improve roads and increase speed limits was opposed with a "every k over is a killer" type campaign. What do you know when the roads were done, there was a 30% road toll reduction and "every k over is a killer" was declared to be "a gross assault on the truth."
Education is the answer, I believe. We should harden up and create a driver schooling industry. That's proper driving skills, obviously with an focus on defensive driving, but experience most people learn from the hard way. Sweden/Norway (?) take a training approach if I recall correctly specifically because their terrain and roads are just a bit insane.
Training, training, training, roads, roads roads. Time we heard about them alongside the latest road toll figures and pleas for people to obey the rules.
Who knows. If you engage people interactively in the process instead of expecting them to be passively compliant, they might respond better.
Decepticon
Whoo-ee! What a can of worms these types of discussions open up!
Now for my two-cents!
I believe that if you are dumb enough to get caught doing something illegal, it's time to man-up and take whatever is coming your way.
I reckon a great deal of these young people who get fined, cars confisctaed etc, do not make thier plights any better as they usually get lippy with the officer/s that have pulled them up.
Police are still people like you and me, and they have a swine of a job to do - gotta say, I'd start looking for things to fine someone over if some up-start was getting stuck into me...
As for actually posting stuff where the whole world can see it...the moment you make something permanent, you're screwed! What a dumb-arse...
Like my Old Man always said to me growing up "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear"
Good pearls I always thought, will be telling my lidz that as well.
Devils Driver
As mentioned across the road
The media needs to STOP showing the cars and their drivers for the publicity factor
Fair enough, make a report but dont go showing footage of car doing nuts etc
Decepticon
On this topic, dobbed someone in on the Hoon Hotline this morning - first time for me.
I'm normally a "Live and Let Live" kinda guy, but what I saw this morning both horrified and enraged me to the point where I had to act.
This yobbo in a really nice Chrysler Regal endangered other people's lives (including my own) on 3 separate occasions in less than 15 minutes - 3 strikes and you're out buddy!
If they confiscate his car, I'm gonna ask if I can have it
As I explained to the officer taking the report, I don't normally act on seeing someone do a burnout, or display some spirited driving - but this was just down-right dangerous.
Plus, it's knob-ends like that who give the rest of us classic car drivers a bad name!
Reloaded
major fail for posting on fb!!
antony@autoshine.com.au
whata douche!!
like phil says... FAIL
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