20 Year-Old Posts Video Of Hoonage On Facebook, Loses Second Car To The Law

[armthehomeless]

A 20 YEAR-OLD Castlemaine man has become the first person to lose not one, but two cars to Victoria’s tough new anti-hoon laws.

Earlier this year Peter Black posted video and photos of himself on Facebook doing burnouts on a country road, and, after a member of the public alerted police to the video evidence, he was forced to relinquish the keys to his $21,000 Ford ute.

It’s the second vehicle that Black has had permanently confiscated and the latest in a long string of driving-related offences for the man. His case also raises the issue of whether confiscating the cars of ‘hoon’ drivers is an effective countermeasure against hard-core hooning.

So far over 8000 cars have been impounded under the anti-hoon legislation since it was introduced in 2006, including over 1500 cars this year. But, as the now-chastened Mr Black has demonstrated, it doesn’t eliminate a hoon’s ability to re-offend.

Police however are confident that the strategy is working.

“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,” said Senior-Constable Grant Healy of the Castlemaine police.

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

[Source: The Motor Report]

[tricache]

If the system works then I'm all for it...but he was pretty dumb posting it up on facebook

[tone]

The guy is very dumb for posting on facebook. But then again for someone to go to his facebook view his pics/movies and then call the cops.....i say get a life. Unless it was the cops monitoring him. But if it was one of his mates. or a mate of a mate, youd want to find them and beat them.

[tricache]

Well he already had a record for the stuff so I say he might have had someone watching over his shoulder haha

[shinslinger66]

Saw this on TV last night- I think the lesson to learn here is just be careful what you post on the net, as sooner or later as we have seen many times it just might come back and bite you in the arse.

[Syd_Chrome]

By the time he's 25 he would have grown out of hooning - but has a huge debt to repay for all the vehicles confiscated!

He'll grow up sooner or later.

[tone]

youd think by 25. I know a few people well over that age who are still being hoon-ish on the roads.

Heard a good one the other day. My uncle was telling me he got his kingswood airborne over the gladesville bridge in sydney. This bridge probably goes up at 10degrees from horizontal. and i dont even think a Veyron could get airborne over it going at 400

[mpsgarage]

This Police stuff has gone too far, Its to hard for them to catch harden crim's so they pick on young drivers that don't know their laws.

[CharlieBrown]

Is this the same Story? Arm, licence lost, but still hooning | The Courier-Mail

I think that tool needs to lose his license for a good few years!

[shakespeare]

If you're that lacking in intelligence that you actually post your stunts on FB etc and expect no one to notice or not do anything, then hey you deserve the punishment and more - lobotomy anyone