Stop these Idiots

[vlv8vic]

Stop these idiots
By CARLY CRAWFORD
26feb06

HOON drivers on Victoria's major highways are using cameras and video mobile phones to record their hell-raising antics.

Police have launched an investigation into the practice, warning that those responsible could face criminal charges. Some of the images have started to appear on hooning websites.
A quick-thinking witness photographed several modified cars swapping lanes on the South Gippsland Highway as their mates videotaped the potentially deadly game.
The witnesses saw one "film-maker" sitting on the window sill of a moving car.
The Sunday Herald Sun has supplied police with images taken by the witness and an investigation has started.
The witness saw this mob of about 20 drivers braking and dangerously swapping lanes in a 100km/h zone on the highway near Lang Lang last Saturday morning.
"They were all hotted up with huge exhausts and everything. What they did was effectively block the highway," the witness said.
"There could have been an accident at any moment."
She said the drivers were travelling about 80km/h.
They darted between lanes, narrowly missing one another, as front-seat passengers in surrounding cars filmed them. One hoon even sped along the road shoulder to overtake a semi-trailer on the inside.
Bass Coast traffic management unit chief Sgt Jim Baum said the matter would be followed up and the offenders faced fines and possibly criminal charges.
"It's not only in this area that this happens, but right across Victoria," he said.
"It's about bravado. They see it as pure entertainment.
"There are people out there who think they're six-feet tall and bulletproof.
"They view this as a sport, trying to bait the police."
Motorists caught with their body parts protruding from the window face fines of $75 and could faces charges of conduct endangering life.
Sgt Baum said hoons often used video cameras and video mobile phones.
He encouraged passing motorists to use new technology, such as camera phones, to their advantage.
"If you've got the technology, then use it," he said.
"All we need is the numberplate and a description of the driver and we can follow it up from there."

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Just reinforcing why JC admin comes down hard on this sort of stuff for those tempted...

[TheForgotten]

well that sorta stuff is just plain stoopid, but having huge exhausts and everything" does not a hoon maketh. I think these idiot deserve the fines/prison time/dismemberment they're heading for.
I'm a firm believer in "controlled environment" games, and I believe that these people are just baiting the cops, but I guarentee they'll be the first to complain about harassment when they get caught.

[vlv8vic]

very well said mate. agree 100%

[STEALTHY™]

The problem is, there adding to what is technically a hoon. Once upon a time, a hoon was just someone that does burnouts, not its anything from speeding, to changing lanes without an indicator.


I have to admit, driving and sitting out the car is ****in stupid, although i've stood out of the sunroof of a car doing a burnout, obviously only going around in circles.

Id also have to agree about the 'hellraising' antics thing. FFS some people need a life, no one has EVER died from doing a burnout, EVER, i do them on the street, but 9 times out of 10 i'm by myself, and theres not another road user anywhere near it.

If they think that these lane changing things, and even the undertaking a truck thing are only hoons, maybe this stupid do gooder should take a drive in peak hour traffic, its shocking in Sa, so i can only imagine how more screwed up drivers in other states are!

[vlv8vic]

Also agree with those comments. I think the reason i posted was to discourage people from admitting to public road burnouts on this site, as it mentions people getting busted through the photos they foolishly post on the net.

[STEALTHY™]

Also agree with those comments. I think the reason i posted was to discourage people from admitting to public road burnouts on this site, as it mentions people getting busted through the photos they foolishly post on the net.

good point aswell, but its VERY hard to prove.

I'm sure most people have seen the pic of my figure 8's, it looks like its a public road, but its infact off a freeway behind a gate, yet it was printed in the SA paper in regards to a hoon story. I'm amazed they didn't get still's from my burnout vid from the Pt Pirie comp and print them.....

[vlv8vic]

ive seen one of your vids as well. it could be quite incriminating....

[STEALTHY™]

ive seen one of your vids as well. it could be quite incriminating....

no, what you've seen is a bloodycrap quality vid with a car that looks shockingly similar to mine

luckily the legal vid is excellent quality!

[vlv8vic]

hahaha nice work. yes the quality does suck. in fact i dont even think it was a black car lol.

[tr3nt]

i havent seen this picture of the figure 8's! reckon u could email/msn it to me?

[newo]

A quick-thinking witness photographed several modified cars swapping lanes on the South Gippsland Highway as their mates videotaped the potentially deadly game.

He encouraged passing motorists to use new technology, such as camera phones, to their advantage.
"If you've got the technology, then use it," he said

So does that mean it's legal now to use mobile phones while driving? Or just to catch the crims?

:P

[STEALTHY™]

i havent seen this picture of the figure 8's! reckon u could email/msn it to me?

it wasn't done on a public road, so i'll go one better! (and the fact your not online atm, and i really cbf emailing it)

[Nobody Actually]

these guys need to be stopped. before too many more get killed

[helly]

Dude, hate to break it to you, doesn't mater if its a public road or not, it is still a road related area... There are lots of private roads around, but the road rules still apply. Any road that is signposted instantly becomes a road related area, whether or not it is open to the public.

And people have indeed died from doing burnouts, on both closed circuits and on the roads. I've investigated at least two in the last 5 years. You might say they were just shit drivers, but both were related to mechanical failure, which unless you're god, you can't do much about hey...

[Joes_meat]

Dude, hate to break it to you, doesn't mater if its a public road or not, it is still a road related area... There are lots of private roads around, but the road rules still apply. Any road that is signposted instantly becomes a road related area, whether or not it is open to the public.

And people have indeed died from doing burnouts, on both closed circuits and on the roads. I've investigated at least two in the last 5 years. You might say they were just shit drivers, but both were related to mechanical failure, which unless you're god, you can't do much about hey...

Fire? Broken drive-shafts? What were the causes? Would they have happened during regular or 'spirited' driving?

[pro_gmh]

You allowed to do burnouts on private property though arnt ya?

[dephilile]

Fire? Broken drive-shafts? What were the causes? Would they have happened during regular or 'spirited' driving?

Someone posted a link to a video a while back (not sure if it has been removed or what) of a guy doin burnouts with his door open and one foot on the ground or something (can’t remember exactly how it went down). Anyway, he fell out and the car went over the top of him and he apparently died.

[dephilile]

You allowed to do burnouts on private property though arnt ya?

I think it is legal and that, but if someone got hurt you could probably still get charged with dangerous driving.

[helly]

You allowed to do burnouts on private property though arnt ya?

The answer to that isn't a direct one, it's YES and its NO... Like I said above if it's not a road related area on private property, the yes. But there are still EPA laws that you have to worry about, such as noise pollution.

Fire? Broken drive-shafts? What were the causes? Would they have happened during regular or 'spirited' driving?

One from the tyre desintergrating and a section still containing a portion of steel belt going through a young ladies head and the other was a stuck accelerator, cuasing the vehicle to slinghot off the road and into a nearby irrigation channel and overturn drowing the driver and passenger, which I guess could happen to you any time...

Its all fun at the time!

[EGG]

I'm pretty sure you can, otherwise most racetracks wouldn't have burnout pads.

Just curious, if it wasn't a public road, who's road was it? Most people don't put speed signs and centrelines on their driveways no matter how long.

[helly]

I think it is legal and that, but if someone got hurt you could probably still get charged with dangerous driving.

That's excatly right... Manner Dangerous Causing Death is an offence that falls under the Crimes Act, not under Road Related Legislation.

The terms road or road related area do not appear anywhere in the proofs of the offence. Hence you could run someone down, by accident, driving in a manner dangerous, on a farm paddock and still be charged and quite possibly proven guilty.

[VXWAGMAN]

stoopid kids doing burnouts.. save your diffs and just enjoy the cruise.

[helly]

I'm pretty sure you can, otherwise most racetracks wouldn't have burnout pads.

Just curious, if it wasn't a public road, who's road was it? Most people don't put speed signs and centrelines on their driveways no matter how long.

glad someone else is thinking!

[pro_gmh]

I understand how EPA laws might affect people doing burnouts on private property, but what you do private property should have nothing to do with the RTA. ???

[helly]

I understand how EPA laws might affect people doing burnouts on private property, but what you do private property should have nothing to do with the RTA. ???

No, just the police...