Hoons "hit List"

[-Dukes-]

The general comments on this article arn't what I expected from perthnow users,

only about 10ish supportive comments, the rest are bashing it, seems people are fed up with hearing "hoon" stories

Good on em,

[TAKUSHI]

mmm id like to willingly take a cop on my peak hour run to south of the river and show him just how other motorists

are driving, coz yeah thaey have undercover boys driving round but 1. like they give a rats 2. as soon as a cop is

spotted everyone drops 20 and does the speed limit, im a commiter of "hoons" myself and its the thought of the

2nd offence penalty thats been keeping my reckless behaviour at bay now for over a year and a half

they've really gota find better things to do than driving round looking for hoons, why dont you drive round

looking for suspicious people walking through a suburb, or too close to a house.

im thinking of getting a list of number plates down, everytime i drive to my gf's place, and handing all those

over to the police and saying well they're clearly going too fast for the driving conditions, some of them are

tailgating, cutting across 3 lanes at once or not indicating on lane change, now call me stupid but hello its

a form of careless/reckless driving, im almost prepared to mount a cam to my car to catch them in the act

im sick of having the hoon label put against me for no f$%kn reason at all

grrrr im sposed to be going to bed and now im all fired up, i COULD keep typing till a finger fell off but i wont,

thats all for now

[rev210]

mmm id like to willingly take a cop on my peak hour run to south of the river and show him just how other motorists

are driving, coz yeah thaey have undercover boys driving round but 1. like they give a rats 2. as soon as a cop is

spotted everyone drops 20 and does the speed limit, im a commiter of "hoons" myself and its the thought of the

2nd offence penalty thats been keeping my reckless behaviour at bay now for over a year and a half

they've really gota find better things to do than driving round looking for hoons, why dont you drive round

looking for suspicious people walking through a suburb, or too close to a house.

im thinking of getting a list of number plates down, everytime i drive to my gf's place, and handing all those

over to the police and saying well they're clearly going too fast for the driving conditions, some of them are

tailgating, cutting across 3 lanes at once or not indicating on lane change, now call me stupid but hello its

a form of careless/reckless driving, im almost prepared to mount a cam to my car to catch them in the act

im sick of having the hoon label put against me for no f$%kn reason at all

grrrr im sposed to be going to bed and now im all fired up, i COULD keep typing till a finger fell off but i wont,

thats all for now

You start out saying you are a wreckless driver then complain about being labeled?

Sorry mate but, if you get pinged with a 'hoon label' it's your own fault. Just like getting any fine that is in relation to breaking the law.

Cops driving around are in fact patrolling and are on the lookout for suspisious people. It's just that people speeding deserve to get fined and the worst part is these motorists are wasting the police time. If you aren't careful enough to drive at the speed limit then you are one of those people who are needlessly wasting police resources.

What other people do or don't do doesn't make you a good driver. I'd personally like to see all of those idiots you see get busted too.

[Magic]

i added m2c.

[Davyboy]

I don't think tailgaiting is classed as driving like a hoon.

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 78A

circumstances of aggravation means circumstances in which —

(a) the vehicle is being used to race another vehicle;

(b) the vehicle is being used in an attempt to establish or break a speed record;

(c ) the speed, or the acceleration, braking or steering capability, of the vehicle is being tested or contested in any way;

(d) the skill of the vehicle's driver is being tested or contested in any way;

(e) the vehicle is driven in a manner that causes smoke to come from one or more of the vehicle's tyres or a substance on the driving surface; or

(f) the vehicle is driven in a manner that causes one or more of the vehicle's driving wheels to lose traction with the driving surface;

That law can be read in any number of different ways.

What happens, say, if you are doing the speed limit with a cop close to you, and an animal or something ran out in front of your car causing you to swerve and brake heavily. Now if the cop didnt see what caused it, then they could according to the law, take your car and book you for hoon laws. That situation could cause more than one of those laws to be broken

Would that be right?

[bubba]

You're not meant to swerve and brake for animals, except maybe a roo.

Better to kill a puppy than lose control of your vehicle and possibly kill a person.

Edited February 6, 2009 by bubba

[TAKUSHI]

You start out saying you are a wreckless driver then complain about being labeled?

Sorry mate but, if you get pinged with a 'hoon label' it's your own fault. Just like getting any fine that is in relation to breaking the law.

Nah i worded that sorta wrong haha i ment like yeah ive been done but only the cops know that, so either way other motorists only look at my car and label me a hoon just by what i drive all coz of what the wa police have got going with the whole anti hoon s@%t, ive learnt my lesson and hey you cant honestly say there's even one person on here that has never commited some sort of hoon offence.

Not gettin fumed up just rewriting how i should have written it

[rev210]

Nah i worded that sorta wrong haha i ment like yeah ive been done but only the cops know that, so either way other motorists only look at my car and label me a hoon just by what i drive all coz of what the wa police have got going with the whole anti hoon s@%t, ive learnt my lesson and hey you cant honestly say there's even one person on here that has never commited some sort of hoon offence.

Not gettin fumed up just rewriting how i should have written it

Ah no worries. that clears things up then