Operation Globin II takes 20 cars since February

FB: if you fail to return the rental car then a would think you’d be liable for the cost of the vehicle, or for the lost revenue whilst it is sitting in impound.

I think that the car should be confiscated if it is the owners vehicle or not. It’d make parents take some responsibility for the driving habits of their children, and make mates think twice before lending their car to an inconsiderate d*ckhead.

I think this is great get the hoons off the roads.. It’ll take em a while to hot up another car.

However this practice should apply to alot more motor offenses. Whats the point in taking a licence off someone when they still have a car to drive around. I mean a licence is just a plastic card it wont get you from A-B. Drink drivers and people continually caught speeding should have thier cars impounded while their licence is suspended. Then they cant pull a Paris Hilton and claim they didn’t know it was suspended. If they are stupid enough to drive someone else’s car.. send them to jail for a month or 2.. People wont learn from their mistakes otherwise.

FB, I would hope (note ‘hope’) that they’d be smart enough to not impound rentals and other people’s cars – only those of the offender.

Even if the car isn’t owned by the offender if the second strike is in the same car as the first strike, then whomever owns the car needs to be ‘interviewed’ and perhaps charged (aiding and abetting idiocy perhaps?).

However if said offender is without a licence, then whoever lent/rented them the car certainly needs to be ‘interviewed’ and perhaps charged if it turns out they knowingly gave the car to an un

I can’t guarantee that any friend I lend my car to won’t be dumb, but if they don’t have a license they won’t get my car. If I don’t know a friend well enough to know their state of license, then they don’t get my car.

Special G you a right the Sydney Police do have a Lotus Exige but they didn’t pay for it. It was given to them by Lotus Australia. And it’s not an oporational vehicle, it used for promtion and awareness events. It’s bright yellow with police lights and big police stickers down the sides, so they can’t really use it infiltrate the street racing scene.

From Lotus Australia

Lotus Cars Australia has donated a special new recruit to the NSW Police Bankstown Local Area Command with the arrival of a high performance Lotus Exige.

The lightweight, high performance Lotus Exige sports car will be used by Bankstown Local Area Command for a number of community policing roles over the next six months, including most importantly, helping to build better relations between police and local performance car enthusiasts and youth.

As well as helping with critical community relationship issues the Lotus Exige will assist Bankstown Highway Patrol in raising its profile during work at Random Breath Testing, Radar and Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) sites.

Two strikes and your car is gone. The cops should then use the cars to infiltrate street racing gangs. Yeah Canberra2 fast 2 furious.
On a slightly different note I heard a Sydney Police station has a Lotus as a pursuit car.

Cool, next time I want to go and do burnouts and act like an idiot I will make sure I’m in a hire car. It’d be interesting to see them seize that!

I’d definitely make sure my second offence is in a rental so they can auction that one instead.

I have no problem with them seizing cars, it’s good in theory but what about parents who lend their kids the car? Or people who lend their car to a mate?

And before anyone says the parents/friends should be more responsible and it’s their own fault. How many parents here can guarantee their son/daughter wouldn’t do stupid stuff in a car? How many here can honestly say they have never done anything silly in their parents car. If not have you ever lent your car to a friend?

If the car is driven by the owner then go ahead take the sucker, they deserve it. However if they are not the owner then a little discretion is needed. There is one problem with that too, I know a few young guys with hot cars and every single one of them is registered in their parents name for insurance purposes.

Kramer, taking an argument like this to silly conclusions doesn’t help anyone. We’re talking material possessions, not body parts. They’re totally separate things.

If, however, they decide they want to start removing body parts to stop offenders, then I’ll be right there beside you protesting (with my hands behind my back in case they want to cut them off during the fray).

Back on the topic. I know of at least two people who have no license and unregistered cars, but who still drive (despite warnings, loss of license for X more months/years, etc). Taking their car off them seems about the only way to slow them down. I do think, however, you need to be disqualified from buying a car in that case. Though how the hell you police that effectively I have no idea.

In the long term I’d advocate something along the lines of: take the car off you once, and you get it back after X amount of time. Take it off you twice and we auction it.

Having said that, I’d suspect we’d see quite a few auctioned cars. I have too much faith in idiots to be just that: idiots.

Cars can be used as a dealy weapon and if these people are using it in a dangerous way then they should be taken off them.
And it is not everyone who is getting pulled over or anything like that. It is more serious stuff.
They have only got 20 cars since February so obviously they are not being too heavy handed.
Very different to cutting off a hand too – cars are much easier to replace!

IIRC another car is slightly easier to purchase than a new hand.

So using this heavy handed approach, we should then cut the hands off people caught stealing? Then they can’t do it again – right?

It was the former Government’s legislation.

Serves the inconsiderate, simplistic, wanna be bullet proof wa**ers right… pull any stupid stunt on the road to impress the mates/girls, or to induce a normally impossible chubby from a pathetic little minded toss, then they deserve to loose their cars..

For once, Stanhopeless the twat has passed legislation that serves the better community and not just his own agenda and/or hip pocket.

the owners of those cars would be shitting tonight. and others would be getting out the balacavas and spanners. lots of fruit in that carpark. a perverse, but effective way of putting a wet blanket on the racer types.
to my knowledge, get busted a few times, and its auction time.

impounding cars is weak. they shouldnt get them BACK! Then the “fine” is means tested then.

In NSW and Victoria I notice they don’t flag where they keep the impounded cars.

Saw the WIN news story too…. Some expensive looking machinery in that compound… including a pair or Mitsubishi Evo 8’s (or is it 9’s)???

Why? Would they stand outside and look at them…

Just saw the WIN news piece on this. You can tell from the footage where the compound is. Hope no car thieves watch the news.

It says in the presser that they get their cars confiscated for “up to 90 days” so I guess auctioning them is out.