Australia Going Down The Toilet ?

[Cowboy1600]

Lol, going down the toilet. That's funny.

While I believe that our laws have gone too far towards making anyone and everyone criminals, fact is if you get caught, take it like a man. No one should be given special exemptions. It's Hamilton's responsibility to know the rules of the country he is visiting, no one elses.

Please, Europe awaits. Don't wait, get on a boat and paddle your ass away cause you leaving will raise the collective IQ of the entire nation a couple of points.

[Birds]

A professional race driver got out of the race track with a little sideways action and this is considered hoon behaviour? GFTO

This man is a visitor to this country... Instead of being a group of nice, hospitable people.. we slap him with a fine for something that would be considered laughable in every other part of the world.

We devote our lives so much to these phucked up rules that we've lost our moral compass... why not give just give him a word of warnning instead?

hahaha.. do you even bother to ask your self why we don't receive any significant amount of tourists into this country?

That's pretty much how it is with drugs, or paying out on an autocratic political regime in other countries. Where we would get treated with a fine or warning, people will receive death for it. Not their car that they don't even own impounded, but DEATH. Who's got the f**ked up rules and moral compass? I think you need to see more of the world and realise how good we have it here. Standards of living and civility are much higher than most places on Earth.

I am actually planning on migrating to Europe in a decade or so.. life in general is quite boring here when compared to Europe

We've been holding back on the celebrations until you leave

I've heard a couple of whingers say this before, and most of the time the end result is: A. years later they still haven't left, B. they left and came back after 6 months.

But let's not pay out on him for this people - we have to remember that Barbarian's idea of a good time is riots in the street, insurance fraud and quest for The land of goat sphincter rings world domination

Hamilton broke the/a law. Whether you agree with the laws or not, the fact of the matter is they exist and no one is exempt from them. There are bad perks to being a celebrity and one of them is that if you f*** up everybody knows about it and it can impact your career detrimentally - even though I personally hate the fact that a celebrity's private life can impact their public image and career - no sympathy from me on the media front of it because he should have known better. Even Hamilton admits it was the wrong thing to do - if he didn't think it was he could always have challenged it in the media and ended up no worse off with the police, but he didn't - he conceded it and, who knows, our laws might save him from doing something stupid in another country - as we can see this isn't the first time he's done something silly in a car.

Being high profile doesn't give you exemption from laws in another country - celebrity or not, if you're visiting another country you read up on the local rules. I'm with the crew who think it's good that if we had done the same as Hamilton we'd have been treated the same way. Whether or not Hamilton would be more in control of the car is irrelevant - last I checked you can't go and do 50 advanced driver courses then receive immunity from certain road rules because you'd be in better control than Average Joe.

The reasons Hamilton wasn't left off: It would have eventually made it to the media anyway that he had done this, creating a massive cry about him being treated better than locals. It would have allowed other people doing the same thing to call bullshit on being treated unfairly. It would have reinforced that lovely image in alot of young men's minds that as long as you are a pro driver think you are a pro driver, nothing bad will happen to you on the road...afterall, Formula One drivers do it and I'm almost as good.

I'd have loved to see a police officer walk up to his window without having seen him first and asking the question "so you think you're Lewis Hamilton do you?".

[bluejeans]

are you serious? let him off? yeah because we would get let off a warning too.. *cough* why should he have special treatment just because he is a 'someone' - he made the choice to do what he did, brake the law - you pay the price.

oh and if australia is so shit - f**k off.

[Roy]

Because the whole legislation is a joke. So if i pull a skid in a Thirfy ute what happens? Can the police really seize the vehicle?

[llama_au]

A professional race driver got out of the race track with a little sideways action and this is considered hoon behaviour? GFTO

This man is a visitor to this country... Instead of being a group of nice, hospitable people.. we slap him with a fine for something that would be considered laughable in every other part of the world.

We devote our lives so much to these phucked up rules that we've lost our moral compass... why not give just give him a word of warnning instead?

hahaha.. do you even bother to ask your self why we don't receive any significant amount of tourists into this country?

You have mistaken my stance on this. I don't agree with a lot of our laws and find them draconian. What I do applaud is the police decision to treat him like anyone else breaking the law.

[gdogzgtr]

Clearly he has been used as a high profile celebrity to show our laws in practice and and to show that vic pol treats everyone the same. If he was let off I'm sure it would be all over the media about police letting off high profile person due to the fact he is a celebrity.

[alr33x]

Clearly he has been used as a high profile celebrity to show our laws in practice and and to show that vic pol treats everyone the same. If he was let off I'm sure it would be all over the media about police letting off high profile person due to the fact he is a celebrity.

except there own...

simon overland seemed to get off pretty easy considering i'd be in jail for the same thing

[Birds]

Because the whole legislation is a joke. So if i pull a skid in a Thirfy ute what happens? Can the police really seize the vehicle?

Pretty sure they can...I'm not a fan of the ultra strict legislation myself, but for Hamilton to attract police attention like he did it must have been more than just a little spin of the tyres.

On that note alr33x there are a couple of ways to achieve leniency with the law as a citizen too, e.g. history of charitable/volunteer work. I've seen people with reduced charges because of their pasts. Wouldn't surprise me that public servant will come under that.

Hamilton may well have had an example made of himself but that goes for any situation he is involved in as a high profile individual. We can all cheat on our partners and the only ramifications will come from those directly involved - celebrity cheats on their partner and it can ruin their career.

[KezR33]

He broke the law, fine him, whatever. He deserves what he gets for breaking the law.

What's shit about Victoria is this obsession with "hoons". Like someone said, front page news for this rubbish is stupid.

[BASHO]

He's a sportsperson , give him curry , next thing he'll be at traing camp in Coffs Harbour with the footy mongrels raping the local virgin camp followers or even worse he may steal our Bingle ! why shock horror he could even be found pissed in the Cross with George M.

Be warned theres no limits to the liberty taking by 'sports persons' catch em' early , flog em' hard !!!

By the way for the dickheads who think Aus is rooted--it's fine--thank you very much !

[alr33x]

Pretty sure they can...I'm not a fan of the ultra strict legislation myself, but for Hamilton to attract police attention like he did it must have been more than just a little spin of the tyres.

On that note alr33x there are a couple of ways to achieve leniency with the law as a citizen too, e.g. history of charitable/volunteer work. I've seen people with reduced charges because of their pasts. Wouldn't surprise me that public servant will come under that.

Hamilton may well have had an example made of himself but that goes for any situation he is involved in as a high profile individual. We can all cheat on our partners and the only ramifications will come from those directly involved - celebrity cheats on their partner and it can ruin their career.

then hamilton should have been let off he would do far more charitable work then anyone else around..

and yeh your past plays a massive roll, if you have a broken home background or dysfunctional family, drug use etc you get let off no problems.. if ur a normal citizen never broken a law work hard etc they throw the book at you! victoria courts are a fkn joke!

[scotty014]

He broke the law, fine him, whatever. He deserves what he gets for breaking the law.

What's shit about Victoria is this obsession with "hoons". Like someone said, front page news for this rubbish is stupid.

that was me lol, why does it make such big news all the time? im also sick of the word 'hoon', can we try something different like instead of hooning can we call it 'stunting' lol.

[Crackfox]

While I don't agree with the laws and my view of Hamilton has if anything gone up there can't be double standards.

Unless they introduce a burnout license available to everyone, which allows all holders to perform burnouts if they deem it safe to do so they have to punish everyone the same

[scotty014]

While I don't agree with the laws and my view of Hamilton has if anything gone up there can't be double standards.

Unless they introduce a burnout license available to everyone, which allows all holders to perform burnouts if they deem it safe to do so they have to punish everyone the same

burnout license would be awesome, it would go well with my license to kill

[Do-Luck]

What no one has failed to mention is that a motorcyclist was killed at the St. Kilda Junction earlier that day. (It was actually Rocky who owns the La Porchetta franchise), so the cops would be all over anyone misbehaving in the area.

R.I.P Rocky

[scotty014]

What no one has failed to mention is that a motorcyclist was killed at the St. Kilda Junction earlier that day. (It was actually Rocky who owns the La Porchetta franchise), so the cops would be all over anyone misbehaving in the area.

R.I.P Rocky

i thought this is more important and should have been front page news.

[Flynnn]

Europe? Mate you will be back very very soon! There is a reason why australia is called "the lucky country". You will see why when you leave, you dont know how good we have it here, and this is coming from a WOG, Grew up in your ideal "EUROPE".

Love the country, law, the lot.

Overseas, ye you have "benefits" such as you drive drunk, get pulled over, bit of money and off you go. If 20 bux does that, imagine what 1000 will do, you can kill someone and get away, which i dont like at all.

f**k him, (pro driver), if he wants to come to australia, he needs to comply to our rules and laws.

In Thailand, you say "f*k the king", you will be locked up and executed lol.. here you say f*k kevin and bracks and your still alive...lucky i say, lucky country.

Adis, the name sounds like a Greek (i.e. Adonis McFist)

For your own sake and credibility, don't put Greece and the others in the same basket clearly because there's a world of difference between the Grecomans and the rest.

What Grecomans fraudulent, deceitful tendencies may have does not and should not be reflected on other Euro states, it's just the way Grecomans are by nature

Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption, $1 billion a year in bribes

March 2010

http://www.neurope.eu/articles/Nearbankruk...ribes/99469.php

Greece scores worst in corruption ranking

http://www.transparency.org/policy_researc.../cpi_2009_table

Edited March 27, 2010 by Barbarian

[Priestley]

Any shred of credibility you may have had has disappeared with that post Barbarian.

Instead of trying to be offensive, you could have given a well thought out reply.

Pretty pathetic really.

[Roy]

So you are moving to the sphincter of the universe then, because i recall you saying it is part of Europe or something and i have read your pining for the place? Meh, different places hold different appeals for different people at different times in their lives. Doesnt make any one place any better or any worse as a whole...just for individuals.

I do believe some media outlets are losing their journalistic integrity and some politicians should have never been given control of the office photocopier. But to say Australia is going down the drain? The last 8 years i have been in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Jakarta, Bandung, Hyderabad, Singapore and Oxford and London for reasonable periods of time. Holidayed and briefly worked in Malaysia, Germany, Ireland, Belgium and Austria....all are cool places but i still want to move back to Australia when i can. But right now any of these places are good for a brief stint, and whilst there are places i want to live and work...i have seen enough to know Australia is where its at. Thats not to say it doesnt have its own problems, but...meh.

[Flynnn]

LOL!

What a joke.

I agree, a warning would have been much more appropriate. Although amounting this to 'Australia Going Down The Toilet' is just as much of a joke.

Australia is changing in a very fast pase with new law implementations and new methods of social engineering. We're more interested in following populist rules

This countries golden age was in mid-late 20th century, however, as of lately we are becoming more of a nanny state jam packed with teetotallers who are too prim and proper to relax and socialise, saping all the fun out of any given situation.

Don't be suprised to see this country become a totalitarian insignificant wasteland in the next couple decades

Edited March 27, 2010 by Barbarian