Victorian police officer gets car impounded for hooning and no rego
Not sure if anybody had posted this allready
A Victorian police officer has had his car impounded for 30 days under the new anti-hoon laws after being fined for not having proper control of the vehicle, which was also found to be unregistered.
The 42-year-old detective senior constable wasn’t on duty at the time of the incident, which occurred on Main Street, Mornington at 11pm on Saturday night, but police impounded the officer’s car on the spot for 30 days under the new laws which kicked off on July 1.
These new anti-hoons laws have only been in place for a few weeks yet irresponsible drivers continue to demonstrate a total disregard for their own safety, as well as the safety of other road users.
In May earlier this year, Victorian Roads Minister Terry Mulder announced the new laws would give police the power to impound cars of first-offenders on the spot for 30 days, up from the previous 48 hours. Mr Mulder said upon the announcement of the new laws that,
“It’s going to hurt their pockets, it’s going to have them on the footpath walking rather than driving, but we’re determined to get on top of this.”
It’s unknown what the officer was doing with the car exactly at the time of the incident. A police spokeswomen has said failing to have proper control of the vehicle normally involves “spinning of wheels” to some degree. She said the officer would receive a court attendance notice for the fines.
The officer is also under investigation by the Victoria Police Ethical Standards Department.
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Obviously Unsensible
he was obviously exiting a service station? =P
just proves it could happen to anyone though
how about we make the pedals out of sticky rubber and the shoes with steel spikes. at least my shins would like that
they've started eating their own, the end is near....
dont sweat the petty... pet the sweaty...
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Same here Troy711, normally its just a slap on the wrist or have a blind eye turned. Rather surprised it was a guy on his age doing these things. What a great mentor for the younger generation's /sarcasm
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That phrase: being fined for not having proper control of the vehicle, is silly.
Its very subjective really. I know a lot of people who aren't 'spinning the wheels' and still dont have proper control where as someone dropping a nice figure 8 does...
They should reword that.
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haha , im surprised too that they fined him and such . Normally they look out for each other / turn a blind eye
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I'm yet to meet a probational constable that hasn't had the shyte scared out of them on a buddy run in a patrol car. Sound like the cop who pinned him had an axe to grind....
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Its Mornington. The TMU down there are absolute ####tards, they put the Gestapo to shame. It really wouldn't surprise me if they had a bit of a side issue.
Nontheless, don't really care its happened. If its good enough for us its good enough for them.
I really do love the wording of the legislation though. As Azk said, not having control of the vehicle is extremely broad. Its left open to interpretation for a reason.
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Also can be classified. If you have an automatic and your hand is resting on the window sill for example could be picked up.
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He's a seriously dum ass COP to be driving unregistered isn't he ?
Lol first person to pick the other stupid thing he was doing lol
Didn't say how long the rego was out though. Thing is here at least if your rego is over and not on hold you have to backpay the expired period anyway so I get a rage going for a silly ticket that means nothing like "oh hey here is a ticket for road tax that you had to pay anyway but we'll just add a bit more for ya" rego on hold or obviously just going to let run out on a shitbox is another matter bue yeah.
Rego aside which is his fault, these laws are ridiculous. There are already enough laws to cover dangerous driving. A law that covers “hoons” is deliberately ambiguous enough to allow police to fine you for whatever they want.
As you say “not having proper control of the vehicle” is a joke. Purely subjective. I can have a car in a drift with the back wheels spinning and be in more control than some retard driving in a straight line lighting a smoke or changing a radio station. In fact many drivers have questionable control most of the time.
“It’s unknown what the officer was doing with the car exactly at the time of the incident. A police spokeswomen has said failing to have proper control of the vehicle normally involves “spinning of wheels” to some degree.” So F$#@ing What! What degree? A two second slip or a stonking 2 minute burn out? As I said deliberately ambiguous and subjective and designed to target the wrong drivers for the maximum amount of revenue.
So spinning the wheels will get your car impounded cause you didnt Have control ? What about when you try do a hill start and there is loose gravel on the road and you have a little split second wheel spin ? Is that hooning ? Is that not having control ?
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technically yes, at least it is over here.
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Lol! Now their own kind isn't safe.
These hoon laws seem pretty extravagant and useless. Surely its purpose is to just make it look like the government is doing something about those damn hoons with their damn p plates.
And by putting this impound in the paper everyone believes they are working. Makes me wanna go down to Bunnings, buy some rope and tie a noose.
Being a P plater these days sucks arse and this shit doesn't help
I'm adding to my "things I want to do before I die" list:
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Get Closed and Open Circuit rally licence.
Buy drift car.
Go drift past a police station.
Argue in court, providing video footage, that I had full control of the car.
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Haha I would pay to be there to see how your footage goes down
PARTY AND BULLSHIT!
Im guessing its the policeman that defected me. he was a committed to writing tickets.
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if its the case of wheel spin... they should go book that massive crane truck i saw today.. got bogged and sure did have those wheels spinning =P
the rules are terrible, and as shown in aussie rules football, leaving it up to interpretation of an Umpire (policeman) will mean bad decisions.
they really do need clear cut rules.
how about we make the pedals out of sticky rubber and the shoes with steel spikes. at least my shins would like that
dobbin in his own people... he wont be taking showers at the precinct any time soon...
dont sweat the petty... pet the sweaty...
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