Three Legs

It's all about INSURANCE ...

They haven't got a F****** clue here.

When you purchase a vehicle here and pay your rego, you are automatically covered. There is no penalty for driving highly powerful cars.

Hence, 17 year old P platers screaming down our street in Holden V8's at 4 in the morning.

If anyone lives in the Northern Suburbs of Perth, please go down Dampier Avenue in Mullaloo and check out the road markings ... just up from the BP garage towards Ocean Reef Road.

Case rested m'lud.

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NickyC

It's a bit different here - P Platers in NSW are restricted in the type of cars they're allowed to drive. They can't drive any car with 8 or more cylinders or even some high-performance 6-cylinder cars. In fact, there's a great long list of cars that they're not allowed.

The Koalas

Just up in Burleigh every Friday and Saturday evening we can here the donut boys at work painting the tarmac with their tyres. It goes on and on for hours through the night. In the morning when leaving the estate the evidence is everywhere. Beenleigh and Logan the same, I used to have to drive from Jimboomba to Gold Coast daily and the amount of new donuts on the road was amazing. It is always in a residential area and I can only imagine the cops are safely tucked up in bed away from it all, because someone somewhere must be complaining.....or is that dobbing, which isnt allowed here either.

rossifumi

And the ****ing chimp behind me a few weeks ago eating his cereal at every opportunity he got. :curse:

auspal

The rego only pays for personal injury to cover medical costs for anyone injured in a motor vehicle accident. A lot of people dont realise this and come unstuck.

rabsody

Shoot at them! A couple of years ago, in my street, police shot at some hoons who'd nicked a car in the middle of the night. We woke with a start and my neighbour a few doors got a bullet hole through his window. Charming. Nice way to restrain theives - it's only a car FFS! To make matters worse, these particular (brain dead) coppers didn't report they'd used their firearm and when it got back to HO subsequently the case was dropped against the hoons. Wankers.

Hutch

Think a bit of clarification on the rules is required here. Some have written about more general driving transgressions (eating cereal, applying make-up etc) ... others have mentioned young kids in powerful cars doing burn-outs. The first is just an example of shit driving (like the lady I saw on the M4 near Heathrow one day, blow drying her hair ... I shit you not) - the second is, I believe the 'hoon' element doing what hoons do - burning through tyre rubber at silly hours of the night. Seen a fair bit of the first category (in fact, I've been responsible for some of it myself) ... not a whole lot of the second. Is it a city thing or am I just in my usual parallel dimension?

rossifumi

Clarification of the rules?

BadgeIsBack

Australia is a country where there is a ready large pool of big engined cars. There is the supply.

If legislation worked about engine power there would be no 2nd hand car market at the prices teenagers need.

Forgetting the size of the engine hoons are no different to boy racers and a piece of metal weighing a tonne will make your eyes water anyhow.

It is definitely a problem inthe burbs.

balkanghost

Knowing Oz hooning happens in only particular places and if not widespread the (limited) Oz media will find examples to scare everyone....

jon and alex

I'm pretty certain that the police in Brisbane use Tetra-band encrypted radios - same as UK - so they can't be scanned.

The main problem is the same for police here and in Oz - you have to catch them at it. These lads and ladettes are normally so proud of their cars that they make sure they are all up together and fully documented so its hard to proactively target them - you need to catch them committing an offence.
The law about confiscation sounds similar to UK - here we can seize a car if it is uninsured or if it the driver is caught driving like an idiot twice.
Problem is, they can claim it back straight away but it does cost them the best part of £200 plus the fine for the offence.

auspal

I think the police in Brisbane are using those radios, but not on the Gold Coast as yet

I think it cant come too soon, but the media think otherwise.