Really... 6+ years ago burnouts were accepted? Well read this and please note the date.. 10 years ago almost to the day. AAP General News (Australia) 03-16-1999 NSW: Anti hoon laws hit the mark More than 700 cars have been impounded in New South Wales and 2023 car hoons fined over the past two years. The figures, announced by Police Minister PAUL WHELAN, follow a Government crack-down on illegal and dangerous street racing. Mr WHELAN says hoodlums who engage in dangerous driving trying to impress their mates with burn outs or donuts are having their cars......... So yeah, I don't think it was acceptable.
The reason everyone is jumping on hoons is because it's not acceptable. Perhaps hoon-bashing in the papers wasn't as popular 5-10 years ago, but it doesn't mean hooning was condoned by the general public, or by the police. It's attitudes like that which have brought this kind of attention on car enthusiasts... it's just what they say, give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself
Even if i think it's a fun thing to do, i don't do it because it is now LAW that things like that done on a public road are ILLEGAL, i don't fancy even RISKING having my car taken away from partaking in illegal behaviour. I'd like to park my car in my lock up garage each night, not have it sitting at the impound with all the VN - VT rocketshit V6's. Whether the media tell us if it's "wrong" or "right", i don't do it because it's now BY law, ILLEGAL. The media haven't told us that. The police and government have. I also think most of the VSS boys are tools because they act and talk like complete wankers OUTSIDE of their cars. Bunch of "sick kents" (as they like to put it) with attitude problems. I'm not about to dob in any people who do burnouts i see on the street, i don't approve of it and i don't think it's right doing it in public and it's the police / TMU's job to catch you, not mine, but if you must be a hero in public, at least do it on a deserted country road in the dead of night away from people and property. Better yet, don't do it at all.
It's not that we're all sheep mate, I was actually on the cruise myself, behaved appropriately, and didn't get looked at twice by the boys in blue. At home HQ Nunawading which is where the first meet was, great turnout, great cars, until a rotor of some sort decided to do burnouts in the middle of a busy HWY.. Then at the South Melbourne meet, there was a crowd of possibly 100 people.. CHEERING these people on, standing on the road, several 'civillian' cars were beeping horns and having to slow down for pedestrians cheering the burnouts on.. I had to laugh at a VY Ute, changing over to stockies in the carpark, then having his photo taken, while arcing it up on the way out..
