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AzzurrA Grand Master

AzzurrA

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Sitting here listening to the radio, and they just had a report about the tripple fatality from the sunshine coast last week or over the weekend or something (they didn't go into much detail about it) but now they're whinging that there's people doing "burnouts" and "spinning their wheels" nearby, and they are now labelling 'hoons' as 'murderers' (in their own words)

What

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F*#$?

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666DAN Grand Master

666DAN

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That's OK I label most people as dickheads, people behind the above mentioned comments fall into that category. The media is fuelled by misinformation and scare tactics with EVERY facet of life, they even dug under every rock they could find to get hold of a drug addict that had his life ruined by experimenting one schoolies lol, yeah I'm sure it was one event that turned his life to shit.

The media always finds an easy scapegoat to blame all problems on...car enthusiast haven't been accused of inciting violence yet though, maybe one day?

wonkynutz Experienced

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Yeah that crash made the papers down here too. Can't call them "murderers" as that means someone who kills deliberately. Thing is it's just stupidity that causes the problems. They won't let inexperienced idiots drive fast cars beyond their limits, so instead they get a slow car and drive that beyond its limits. Still end up dead either way.

Nismo_Boy Grand Master

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The fact is the driver was drunk, and doing 200kph in a 60kph zone, on a road that’s extremely bad, in a suburban area.

I knew the owner of the car through other friends, and the reality is his “V8 Holden” was so far from what the media have been classing as a hoon car it wasn’t funny. Since when where lower springs and a legal limit exhaust hoonish?

The Police and Medial need to wake up, drop this hoon shit and report what really happens, but I guess the real stories don’t sell.

I guess drink driving is so 1990’s, and speeding only sells if street racing is inserted in front of it.

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prego Community Regular

prego

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in my eyes there are the dickheads who hoon and to illegal things that are dangerous

thouse that do some illegal things in a more respectable manner and try not to do dangerous things

and then theres the 1000000s of others who drive "normally"

RedEmblem Proficient

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The dickheads with the names of the deceased written over theirs cars haven't exactly helped the situation either. Just because your mate (or mate of a mate of a mate of a mate of a mate) has died, isn't an excuse to do burnouts etc at top of Alex Headlands, or cut infront of traffic. Fags.

AzzurrA Grand Master

AzzurrA

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yes... was up at mooloolaba yesterday for a swim, and there were about 5 or 10 cars 'lapping' with "RIP Jack Daniels" or something* written on them.

*i didn't see the words myself, a friend told me about it, but i saw the cars lapping all day

dangerous_daveo Grand Master

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The fact is the driver was drunk, and doing 200kph in a 60kph zone, on a road that’s extremely bad, in a suburban area.

I knew the owner of the car through other friends, and the reality is his “V8 Holden” was so far from what the media have been classing as a hoon car it wasn’t funny. Since when where lower springs and a legal limit exhaust hoonish?

The Police and Medial need to wake up, drop this hoon shit and report what really happens, but I guess the real stories don’t sell.

I guess drink driving is so 1990’s, and speeding only sells if street racing is inserted in front of it.

Thats it, and they are only doing their jobs arent they. Which is to make their station/paper money.

Seriously what does it matter? Some people like fast cars, others dont. The ones that dont are always going to look down at the ones that do, the media just provoke it a bit.

You gotta admit tho, its a damn good story. Its got cars, speed, alcohole, death, bit of sad stuff etc. If it was a movie we would all be queing up outside the doors to see it!

Vermin Explorer

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Same stuff, different day.... let them think, and do all they want... hoons are murderers to them, but they only do stupid shit because the media are a bunch of stalkers. so the hoons fear for thier lives and do something stupid and accidents happen, because they are harrased by the media because they wont leave people alone... always sticking thier noses where it dont belong...

if you understand this then you are doing better then me.... im not as think as i drunk i am... ;) Bottoms up :cheers:

Midol Community Regular

Midol

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The driver was Joel Doyle.

I knew him, had a few beers with him in the past.

Nismo_Boy: The tox reports arn't back yet, nor do they know how quick he was going. How do you know he was drunk and going 200kph when the cops don't?

Daveo: It has speeding but where did you get the drinking from? You guys are doing what the media does, jumping to conclusions.

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Nismo_Boy Grand Master

Nismo_Boy

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The driver was Joel Doyle.

I knew him, had a few beers with him in the past.

Nismo_Boy: The tox reports arn't back yet, nor do they know how quick he was going. How do you know he was drunk and going 200kph when the cops don't?

Daveo: It has speeding but where did you get the drinking from? You guys are doing what the media does, jumping to conclusions.

Speculating just like everyone else with speed. He had a drink at the party/gathering, then again I wasn’t there I didn’t see it with my own eyes. Point is, the car shouldn’t have been going that speed.

Dynamix Experienced

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The crash happened about 800m from my house.. how anyone could even contemplate speeding along that road is ming boggling, its as sketchy as f#ck. I new the the owner of the car " JD ", he was a top guy, didnt have anything bad to say about anyone and allways had a smile on his, its still a shock to me. He was a sensable driver, in all the time i'd known him he didnt do any stupid shit, at all, ever.. which amazes me even more about the speed. It's such a tragic loss of life that could have been stopped. But what happens now is, we as car enthusiast's are all going to get labelled as hoons, anyone with the slightest sight of moddifications is going to be harrased byt the police, and they love to streriotype and harras us enough as it is. Its just another thorn in the side for us that do the right thing... As for the burnouts and shit people are doing, its f#cking stupid further more giving EVERYONE a bad name for an INDIVIDUALS actions, its giving the media and police even more reason think one minded. Anyway.. -RIP JD you'll be missed mate-

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dangerous_daveo Grand Master

dangerous_daveo

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The driver was Joel Doyle.

I knew him, had a few beers with him in the past.

Nismo_Boy: The tox reports arn't back yet, nor do they know how quick he was going. How do you know he was drunk and going 200kph when the cops don't?

Daveo: It has speeding but where did you get the drinking from? You guys are doing what the media does, jumping to conclusions.

I said thats what the story says champ :P Stores dont need to be true, just entertaining.

Say the story I put up before or... Driver killed doing 50kmh in a 60zone, tyre blew out, hit pole. Its boring, and all people would say is poor bugger.

And thats my point.

Einstein Proficient

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eh whatever, f**k the media, it's always full of rubbish

people who believe what they read in the papers/see on tv aren't people whose opinions you'd care about, are they?

as always we'll continue doing our own thing, ignore the sheep =P

Konrad Grand Master

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yeah this is old news... so were a facet of society targetted by the media? get over it, thats what the media does,

some other faves;

-refugees

-knocked up teenagers

-junkies

-conmen

-arabs/lebs

not to speculate on the above incident but if i had people in the car and was more than a bit over the limit (in either speed/ alcohol and had something go wrong i'd label it as manslaughter, the driver is in control and assumes responsibility for everyone in the car regardless of the passengers gettin in on their own free will.

Midol Community Regular

Midol

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Dynamix: JD wasn't driving. I swear they reported that he was but todays article said he wasn't.

Konrad: I don't know. In civil law (negligence) you wouldn't be found guilty as you assumed the risk of getting into a car with a drunk driver.

IMO if you get in the car with a drunk driver you are an idiot and the driver shouldn't be responsibility, voluntary assumption of risk.

Criminal might be different. f**ks me.

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