The Commodores of Wanniassa

Commodores, even as 6 cylinder cars, and not what you would call underpowered. A ten year old base model 6 cyl will comfortably whoop many new cars in a straight line. The V8s are much more powerful again, the basic LS1 having about 300hp.

The problem is that holding the throttle down for several seconds results in high speeds, and commodores aren’t the greatest handling vehicle in tight cornering (in fact that aren’t that good at all). Lots of straight line speed without the handling to match makes these things pretty damn dangerous in the hands of a 17 year old wannabe.

But when he did this chase on Need for Speed or whatever other PS3/XBOX game it was fine!! And no one was hurt……

damien haas said :

I dont think you could say a Commodore was a high powered vehicle. If he is a P plater, it will be a six cylinder.

Dunno… judging by those wheels, my guess it that it’s a HSV from the early to mid naughties. In that case, yes high powered. Anyway who says a P-plater, who is driving while drunk, and willing to evade the cops, will abide by any power restriction law?

AcidRose said :

oh man…When? I saw When are these stupid testosterone fueled car chases gonna stop??? When we kill another innocent family with a innocent young baby? Did we learn NOTHING from last years tragic loss of the Oppealear Family? FFS???!!!!!

There, I fixed it for you

AcidRose said :

oh man…When? I saw When are these stupid testosterone fueled car chases gonna stop??? When we kill another innocent family with a young baby? Did we learn NOTHING from last years tragic loss of the Oppealear Family? FFS???!!!!!

They will stop when criminals stop running from Police.

If Police weren’t allowed to chase then criminals would undertake more risk, more regularly to get away with offences.

miz said :

Nevertheless, it sounds as if it is the passenger who is in a critical condition in hospital. I know that I was a passenger in a few stupid car chases as a teenager – and it was not my choice that high speeds happened.

Yes, but you choose your friends, and if your friends are hoons, then you are somewhat responsible for your fate.

If they Mully themselves with only the loss of a tree, I’m happy.

GottaLoveCanberra said :

The increased patrols started around 2006/7 or so I reckon. I used to go out ‘cruising’ all the time and we rarely ever saw patrol cars. Now I see one every day.

Out of interest, where do you see these cars ‘everyday’? I drove for my job for about 6 years, mostly early afternoon and late evenings, and from my experience, around that time the number of police on the roads dropped dramatically. I remember in the old days, you used to be able to guarantee seeing a police car parked on Adelaide Ave opposite the mint, or even see an RBT or speed trap setup on the parkway or Barry Dr almost every week. Maybe driving home between 10-11pm on friday and saturday night wasnt the best time to see them, but I honestly didnt know when was.

One interesting thing Ive found though, is some people seem to attract police attention, whether from where they are or who theyre with. A drug-using friend many years ago, seemed like everytime she went to Civic, there would be some police interaction.. Im sure that members of Rush Hour believe that there is quite an extensive police presence on our roads too.

I think the reason for this, is since the introduction of cameras and, well, no basically just since cameras, the number of police patrols on our roads has dropped dramatically. The fact that some certain groups and individuals (ie. rushhour, mullys, masseys, etc) seem to have interactions with police just shows that the boys in blue are still able to target some offenders even with the reduction in their numbers and diversion of funding allocated for road patrols, being diverted to camera ‘road safety’ campaigns instead.

oh man…When? I saw When are these stupid testosterone fueled car chases gonna stop??? When we kill another innocent family with a young baby? Did we learn NOTHING from last years tragic loss of the Oppealear Family? FFS???!!!!!

I dont think you could say a Commodore was a high powered vehicle. If he is a P plater, it will be a six cylinder. He has a few people on board, so that adds weight. As the speed limit in the ACT is 100kmh, pretty much any vehicle on our roads today can exceed that fairly easily.

miz said :

I suspect there are just more cops about these days (I know it seems unbelievable, but in Canberra in the 70s and 80s you rarely saw one, and kids would do a fair bit of impromptu drag racing).

The increased patrols started around 2006/7 or so I reckon. I used to go out ‘cruising’ all the time and we rarely ever saw patrol cars. Now I see one every day.

wow demolished that tree. innocent bystander.

impacting on the rear driver’s side passenger door.

Oddly specific much?

Pommy bastard said :

That poor tree!

+1

Nevertheless, it sounds as if it is the passenger who is in a critical condition in hospital. I know that I was a passenger in a few stupid car chases as a teenager – and it was not my choice that high speeds happened.

I suspect there are just more cops about these days (I know it seems unbelievable, but in Canberra in the 70s and 80s you rarely saw one, and kids would do a fair bit of impromptu drag racing).

My concern in this case is that there was a police pursuit (shades of the Mully situation).

Eugenics.

🙁 Tragic. Absolutely tragic.

That was a beautiful tree.

FFS, what is wrong with these people?

Agree mate. For some reason we seem to be growing these people at the lower end of the gene pool – and there is getting to be more of them. What does it take for the message, or any message really, to get through?

Great mates they were riding with. The Police shouldn’t have any problems identifying them what with that large yellow streak running down the centre of their backs!!

Unfortunately, this sort of senseless, dangerous ‘hooliganism’ has become common on our streets. It usually involves some sort of idiot in a relatively high powered vehicle with a sense of arrogance mixed with stupidity. In the last 3 months I have personally bore witness to countless acts of dangerous driving on our ACT roads. On Friday, I was literally forced off the road by a light blue mid 1990’s Ford Falcon! This happened on Majura Road at approximately 3:20pm just after the Brand Depot roundabout and just before the traffic lights. He had all the intent of hitting my car on the driver’s side and I was forced to swerve off the road onto the dirt shoulder. I severely doubt these mongrel idiots will ever learn regardless of whether people are injured or killed.

That poor tree!

Idiot. So just to try to (assumably) escape a drink driving charge he’s now going to be up for culpable driving causing grievous bodily harm or death, plus a bunch of other charges. Should serve time for that one.