Originally Posted by Campbells

Anyone know of this course of action being taken ? A hoon having their car confiscated ?

Originally Posted by BEVS here

Actually yes. An apprentice my husband knows had his car confiscated following the latest of his hooning incidents which lead to yet another fine.

His parents 'bought ' the car back for him.

He now has a 4 wheel drive and hoons off-road.

He seems to have calmed down a lot since having a steady girlfriend and a new baby.

Originally Posted by Campbells

Here we are in beautiful New Zealand on a Saturday night 23.45 and the thudding starts as usual, we stay in a good area and have spoken to the neighbours and many folk have complained about theses louts with zero respect. As per many other issues - nothig gets done.

Of course the thudding music is drowned by the hoons screaming up the roads

Heard that in Milford (an upmarket area of Auckland) people are moving out their million $ homes because of the youth on the rampage on the weekends, smashing cars, bottles and racing up & down with their portable discos.

I’m sure I will get some advice from the BE memners to start a campaign on this one also

Lets face it, there is nothing stopping these louts from doing as they please and the will probably be sleeping till noon tomorrow.

Tried phoning the noise control centre and they ask if I have gone and spoken to them, is there any violence? How many people are in the house?

Many times we go to the beach it ends up with the louts arriving with their drainpipe exhausts and screeching tyres.

How come if New Zealand is such a beautiful place and so clean green that this type of behaviour seems to be acceptable?

Personally I see these things as part of the real reasons that people are bailing outta here & over to Oz, as things just seem out of control here.

Originally Posted by Campbells

Hey Mod,

Where do you stay ?

Maybe I just have high standards of expectations, considering that NZ housing prices are one of the highest ( rated 3rd ) in the world and that taxes are very high I would expect that problems that really do exist would be sorted.

A kind of value for money outllook I would say rather than too high expectations.

Mind you if you consider leaky homes, that also may not be a problem that you have experinced but certainly exists in New Zealand and most folk would see that as a basic expectation.

So whilst New Zealand in your eyes is "sweet as " there are folk experincing real problems here.

It seems a common response when people point out / raise a discussion / topic of problems in NZ to say, well where I stay we don't have that problem.

If people did come to New Zealand expecting it to be the land of milk & honey, I wonder what would give that false impression

Have a nice peaceful Sunday

Originally Posted by karonious

Hey Campbells,
I lived in Hamilton and now live in Whitby.
Having lived next door to people who caused us immense stress with their noise in Elgin, Scotland, I fully appreciate how upsetting it can be. I'm not saying it doesn't happen here, just that I haven't experienced it here.
As for it being a common response to say "I don't have that problem': well, it's the truth - why would I say different?
But you have had some really good replies to your initial post so hopefully something in there will have been useful to you.
Have a nice day yourself and hopefully a peaceful evening too.

Originally Posted by Campbells

Must admit that in the month we spent in Scotland earlier this year I didn't experience thud thud noise and not from any of the cars.

Mind you they didn't get as close as they do here

So as a matter of interest / comparison how did you remedy your rowdy Scots neighbours? Was it traditional Scottish music or gansta rapp?

How did you end up in Scotland, thought you are a Kiwi? How long did you stay there?

I must confess I love the highlands and all the wee toons. Probably upset a few folk (best not ruin my reputation ) but I really think Scotland is more beautiful than New Zealand. I think it has a lot to do with the history that is all around. Maybe another topic.

Cheers anyway

Originally Posted by karonious

Im a SCOT, that's how I ended up there!!

Originally Posted by Woodlea

In fact Karen aren't you english cos you were born there - he he

Originally Posted by karonious

Im a SCOT, that's how I ended up there!! Lived a long time in the Spey Valley
We lived in RAF quarters at the time and they eventually sorted it out
We lived all over the UK and did 2 tours at Peterhead. Have to say, Wellington is no problem after living in the Bloo Toon

Originally Posted by karonious

Oh yeah....
To make it clearer.... I was born in England but lived most of my life in Scotland. I have a Scots accent don't I?

Originally Posted by Campbells

Ahh, the Spey the source of water for most of the distillieries

Got up to Stonehaven in Jan, awesome fish n chips

How long you been in NZ ?

Cheers

Originally Posted by karonious

Oh yeah....
To make it clearer.... I was born in England but lived most of my life in Scotland. I have a Scots accent don't I?

Originally Posted by karonious

I come from the village that makes Glen Grant and Glenfiddich is made 9 miles away, Macallan and and Knockando, just up the road.
Been here 18 months