Automotive mayhem in Kaleen?

Posh, I think that your talking about bi-xenon lights which are increasingly common on newer European cars. The light they emit is much whiter than the more common halogen lights. The bi-xenons would still need to conform to the same ‘brightness’ levels(measured in lumens I believe) as regular cars.

farnarkler said :

Perhaps it’s time the authorities put a ban on engine modifications which increase power. Some of these morons are running around in machines more powerful than those punted around Bathurst by Brock, Moffat, etc but with 10% of the driving ability of those guys.

And preventing someone modifying a car with standard 100bhp to 150bhp makes no difference when you can go out and buy a FPV/HSV with 400bhp standard?

No VYBerlinaV8_the_on – these are more like those energy saving globes we have in the house. More of a ‘white flourescent’ type rather than the old ‘dull’ type.

Some of these morons are running around in machines more powerful than those punted around Bathurst by Brock, Moffat, etc but with 10% of the driving ability of those guys.

It’s been a while since you paid much attention to Australian motor sport then?

That’s often because they’re poorly adjusted, or because you are seeing them coming over the top of a hill.

Speaking of modifications… is anyone else annoyed by the new headlights that they are putting on cars? Even on low beam they are blinding.

Agreed farnarkler. While they are at it, the authorities should ban speedos, indicators and mufflers, cause it seems most people have either modified them or dont use them at all in Canberra.And they should make it mandatory to remove headlights so that only fog lights can be used, to legally satisify Canberran’s obsession with fog light use in clear conditions. Oh,and they may as well request the removal of front bumper bars on vehicles so drivers can tailgate legally, just that few inches closer.

Perhaps it’s time the authorities put a ban on engine modifications which increase power. Some of these morons are running around in machines more powerful than those punted around Bathurst by Brock, Moffat, etc but with 10% of the driving ability of those guys.

It’s a little off-topic, but can anyone help me with my physics homework?

Q1) If a car is doing 120km, and hits a 35-degree one metre high ramp, how badly will the occupants soil themselves?

Whats a pop off valve? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowoff_valve

If you run a turbo that spools early its a fact of life………

I also believe, like some people in this thread, that people who annoy me should suffer. If a truck drives near my street and uses its loudy loud loud brakes, the drivers head should explode.

So what if there are loud cars driving around Kaleen, … im sure there are loud cars in every suburb.

I’ve lived here for what 6 months, …. nothing more notable than in other suburbs I’ve lived in, and that includes the dirt bikes riding all over the parks here.

Posh said :

Unfortunately Maribyrnong is the main road that all the other roads feed off. There is only one small round-about about half way around (joins Ellenborough which connects to Lyneham). At the round-about you can see burn-out marks on the road where they obviously like playing fishtails and where the race begins.

Don’t know what the answer is – speed bumps can be a pain – but since there are two schools in this part of Maribyrnong then maybe that would stop them speeding along (both day and night)on what is probably the straightest section of Maribyrnong.

I feel sorry for the people who live near speed bumps on learmonth drive, must be very frustrating and annoying.

Unfortunately Maribyrnong is the main road that all the other roads feed off. There is only one small round-about about half way around (joins Ellenborough which connects to Lyneham). At the round-about you can see burn-out marks on the road where they obviously like playing fishtails and where the race begins.

Don’t know what the answer is – speed bumps can be a pain – but since there are two schools in this part of Maribyrnong then maybe that would stop them speeding along (both day and night)on what is probably the straightest section of Maribyrnong.

wow. I wish you could hear the idiots on kambah pool road, or the fool who almost cleaned up a pedestrian on townshend street today. thing is, i have an obligation to help when i see an accident, regardless of whether they were driving dangerously or not. doesn’t kaleen have all those chicanes, or is that giralang?

I have just moved into Kaleen and It seems that there are a lot of idiot drivers in the suburd a red/maron car with P plates was speeding up and down Diamantina last night as well. It would be easy for the police to pick up a few fines on Diamantina especailly up at the end in the 40km/per hour zone near the school

Canberra seems to get the extremes in drivers – tools like this guy and then the idiots who insist on trundling along in the right hand lane at a top speed of 60k along the parkway.

Loose Brown said :

Oh blah, blah blah PeterH.

If it’s Tempesta’s fantasy to hear a rotary whiz by his home before losing control and skid screeching into a tree with a huge bang, run out the front door and walk up to the smoking car, glass all shattered and wrapped around the tree, crippled driver moaning and softly calling out for help while blood pours from the side of his face, as Tempesta looks up and down the street – no one has come out yet but lights are coming on so must act quickly, grab the jerry can of petrol and swiftly splash it over the smoking bonnet before throwing the can into the arms of the desperate driver before stepping back as a loud WHOMP! sound as the car ignites – then that’s his business and who are you to judge?

Now I feel like barbeque…

– If only a rotisserie would come whizzing by my home.

Loose Brown said :

Oh blah, blah blah PeterH.

If it’s Tempesta’s fantasy to hear a rotary whiz by his home before losing control and skid screeching into a tree with a huge bang, run out the front door and walk up to the smoking car, glass all shattered and wrapped around the tree, crippled driver moaning and softly calling out for help while blood pours from the side of his face, as Tempesta looks up and down the street – no one has come out yet but lights are coming on so must act quickly, grab the jerry can of petrol and swiftly splash it over the smoking bonnet before throwing the can into the arms of the desperate driver before stepping back as a loud WHOMP! sound as the car ignites – then that’s his business and who are you to judge?

It’s a Datsun, there would be no need for pouring petrol over the vehicle, the driver would have been killed instantly due to the car having about a minus 4 safety rating.

Personally I would have grabbed the rego and make of the car then reported to the police. Though the car was probably stolen anyway.

I saw a car on tugger parkway a while back with a cardboard and marker pen license plate that read “AS 1F” Talk about thumbing your nose at authority, especially in broad daylight. I guess had I been a police vehicle it would have been a high speed chase scenario?

G-Fresh said :

… numpty’s. Maybe you two deserve to die in a fiery ball.

Chill out you goose. The way LB worded his post in response to a previous post was funny. The fact you wish ill on someone laughing at well written post that was intended to be comical says more about you than anyone else. Maybe you need to lighten up.

I’m personally sick and tired of morons speeding around the place as if they own it regardless of anyone else around. If they hit a tree and cause harm to themselves its their own fault. If they hurt someone innocent in the process then they deserve whatever pain they earn for themselves.

BerraBoy68 said :

grundy said :

Loose Brown said :

If it’s Tempesta’s fantasy to hear a rotary whiz by his home before losing control and skid screeching into a tree with a huge bang, run out the front door and walk up to the smoking car, glass all shattered and wrapped around the tree, crippled driver moaning and softly calling out for help while blood pours from the side of his face, as Tempesta looks up and down the street – no one has come out yet but lights are coming on so must act quickly, grab the jerry can of petrol and swiftly splash it over the smoking bonnet before throwing the can into the arms of the desperate driver before stepping back as a loud WHOMP! sound as the car ignites – then that’s his business and who are you to judge?

best post ever

😀

Giggling like a schoolgirl…again.

Oh +1 😀
hee hee haa haa
pml, lol 😛 +1 +1 oh yes oh yes!

… numpty’s. Maybe you two deserve to die in a fiery ball.

Gotta love that. Vivid imagery, I think some should remember that imagining and doing are indeed separate things. Thanks Loose Brown, sounds a bit like that scene in the first Mad Max film really.

I’m thinking Running On Empty…

I’d almost pay to watch that.

I live on Chuculba Crescent and i hate, with a passion, the morons who ruin and apparently rule the street. How there are not frequent deaths on our street I don’t know.

We need traffic calming and we need it now.

Caltrop/Caltrap – And here’s a picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caltrope_(PSF).jpg

5 for US $20 – http://www.defensedevices.com/caltrops.html (possibly not easily available in Australia)

Gotta love that. Vivid imagery, I think some should remember that imagining and doing are indeed separate things. Thanks Loose Brown, sounds a bit like that scene in the first Mad Max film really.

A caltrap is ancient weapon with spiky points thrown on the ground to impede soldiers, horses and anything else trying to traverse said ground.

Oh and peterh for the record if its the car I think it is, it gets around without number plates and the AFP have been informed several times.

With films like Fast and the Furious providing plenty of “mental stimulation” to testosterone charged young males coupled with the growing use of agression in advertising and marketing, have you noticed? – I could not believe it when they advertised the Logies as a “street fight”! – It is no surprise that more and more people take road laws for granted and have a f*%k you attitude.

Great imagery.

grundy said :

Loose Brown said :

If it’s Tempesta’s fantasy to hear a rotary whiz by his home before losing control and skid screeching into a tree with a huge bang, run out the front door and walk up to the smoking car, glass all shattered and wrapped around the tree, crippled driver moaning and softly calling out for help while blood pours from the side of his face, as Tempesta looks up and down the street – no one has come out yet but lights are coming on so must act quickly, grab the jerry can of petrol and swiftly splash it over the smoking bonnet before throwing the can into the arms of the desperate driver before stepping back as a loud WHOMP! sound as the car ignites – then that’s his business and who are you to judge?

best post ever

😀

Giggling like a schoolgirl…again.

What’s a caltrap?

Loose Brown said :

If it’s Tempesta’s fantasy to hear a rotary whiz by his home before losing control and skid screeching into a tree with a huge bang, run out the front door and walk up to the smoking car, glass all shattered and wrapped around the tree, crippled driver moaning and softly calling out for help while blood pours from the side of his face, as Tempesta looks up and down the street – no one has come out yet but lights are coming on so must act quickly, grab the jerry can of petrol and swiftly splash it over the smoking bonnet before throwing the can into the arms of the desperate driver before stepping back as a loud WHOMP! sound as the car ignites – then that’s his business and who are you to judge?

best post ever

😀

Oh blah, blah blah PeterH.

If it’s Tempesta’s fantasy to hear a rotary whiz by his home before losing control and skid screeching into a tree with a huge bang, run out the front door and walk up to the smoking car, glass all shattered and wrapped around the tree, crippled driver moaning and softly calling out for help while blood pours from the side of his face, as Tempesta looks up and down the street – no one has come out yet but lights are coming on so must act quickly, grab the jerry can of petrol and swiftly splash it over the smoking bonnet before throwing the can into the arms of the desperate driver before stepping back as a loud WHOMP! sound as the car ignites – then that’s his business and who are you to judge?

Tempestas said :

I think its a f*wit in a turbo rotary in a car like you suggest. He seems to enjoy getting his pop-off valve to pop-off multiple times.

It’s a shame we can’t legally throw caltraps on the road for such delightful drivers.

If he does get around to wrapping himself around a tree, make sure you tell him how much you appreciate him before calling an emergency service.

if you did throw caltraps on the road, and he hit them at the speeds suggested, would you be prepared to apologise to the family of the house in which his car could be lodged? Just call emergency services. if he dies and you wasted precious time giving him a piece of your mind when you could have helped him, more fool you. Idiot drivers are all over canberra. if you can see what his car is, maybe calling the police and reporting the make, model and plate would help?

I heard speeding cars followed by a lot of swearing and abuse coming from a street in Giralang last night, possibly related. Perhaps this is what someone got for trying to indicate their displeasure to the offender(s).

It’s nights like these I think about forming a vigilante posse.

The car is a light colour – looks a pale yellow or maybe the street lights taints the colour a bit – but it was going so fast I could only see it for a split second even though the noise gives you fair warning that it is on its way it doesn’t help because of the speed. But it was definitely one of those older small cars that looks like it’s been ‘hotted’ up.

We had a family living across the reserve from us who’s teenage son used to crack 80km/h on a short and narrow street where people generally ease along at 30km/h, due to kids and bikes, etc. A few members of the neighbourhood had a word with the guy and the behaviour stopped soon afterwards.

Any chance of that happening in this case?

isnt there always automotive mayhem in kaleen n giralang?
was the car white?

No.

A lot of ACT residents don’t live in Kaleen.

I think its a f*wit in a turbo rotary in a car like you suggest. He seems to enjoy getting his pop-off valve to pop-off multiple times.

It’s a shame we can’t legally throw caltraps on the road for such delightful drivers.

If he does get around to wrapping himself around a tree, make sure you tell him how much you appreciate him before calling an emergency service.