10 December 2010

No purple Commodore for Summernats

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This in from ACT Policing:

ACT Policing has seized a late model purple Holden Commodore after its driver had been involved in a street burnout outside a Dickson College school formal earlier this week.

Photographs taken at the formal clearly identify the vehicle and the offence outside the National Convention Centre, on Constitution Avenue.

Police identified the vehicle and performed a routine traffic stop on it in Civic yesterday. It was later seized under the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999.

Under section 5 of the Act, police may take this action for offences of street racing, speed trials, burnouts and menacing driving. Vehicles can be seized for up to 90 days for a first offence and may be seized and forfeited to the Territory for a second offence if ordered by the Courts.

Traffic Operations Sergeant Jeff Knight said that this driver’s burnout, on busy city street, was a senseless and reckless act which could easily have resulted in a collision and injury.

“As you can see from the photograph, there were a lot of people around who could have become victims of this person’s senseless driving behaviour. Police will be patrolling around school formals and events in the weeks ahead; we will be actively targeting drink drivers and will take action against any drivers who offend,” Sergeant Knight said.

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Rottweiler said: “Why don’t all you haters get behind the reopening of Canberra drag strip it will help get these “hoons” out of your local streets, back roads etc. And it a SAFE, CONTROLLED, SUPERVISED, MANAGED, environment.”

Ah, the golden age of the Dragway, when there was no anti-social car behaviour on ACT roads at all, because the Dragway provided a safety valve.

PIG’S ARSE.

Francois Dillinger11:08 am 05 Jan 11

Did anyone say class warfare? Why did this thread peter out? I’d love to see the mudslinging continue.

Also gotta love the bogan rationalisations for thinking seeing a ‘performance’ holden v8 doing a burn out is ‘motor appreciation’.

They wouldnt know class if it slid two lanes in the wet and blind sided them at 90kmph in a 60 zone. Sound familiar?

WOW this is the best laugh I’ve had in a while, please feel free to give me backlash I love it. I myself sit on the fence with this subject,

1st I don’t think what you call “hoons” are doing the right thing on our streets, back roads etc but I completely understand that you want to have fun with vehicles, well most of you and yes it is the small group of idiots that ruin it for everyone.

2nd most of you regulars here on RA that are totally against anything these people do in there spare time DO you remember being young once if you do were you into cars if not get over it.

3rd find a safe environment to hold hold such events I remember growing up at Canberra dragway as a child then as a young adult until it was closed, the dragway held events weekly for these so called “hoons” to vent, never given an alternative venue nor will the gov give/allow an approved venue either as all it takes is 1 residence to complain and it’s all over.
Why don’t all you haters get behind the reopening of Canberra drag strip it will help get these “hoons” out of your local streets, back roads etc. And it a SAFE, CONTROLLED, SUPERVISED, MANAGED, environment.

screaming banshee10:45 pm 13 Dec 10

style_maniac said :

like I said its a controlled enviroment just like melbourne gp or v8 street races if its conrolled there shouldnt be an issue!

style_maniac said :

yes there is the occasional people that will ruin it for us but it is hard to control or keep track of how many new people join our group

Keep diggin’ ya hole. I doubt the Melbourne GP have those issues.

Do you:
– Have a Constitution
– Have a Management Committee
– Hold Annual General Meetings
– Have a Membership Structure
– Hold Public Liability Insurance

If not, then you can fuck off with your whinging about how the government wont help you setup a legal venue because you cant even help yourself to set up a legitimate association.

Work out the costs of running a legitimate association, divide by your expected membership and thats your starting point. Setup your association with different membership levels, single, family, spectator, participant, faggot…whatever takes your fancy, and insist that to be a participant you must hold a CAMS licence or some such.

I suspect you’ll find that 80-90% of your fuckwit mates will splinter off to carry on with their illegal burnouts to prove just how much they aren’t faggots.

Seriously if you want to be treated like an adult try acting like one.

style_maniac7:49 pm 13 Dec 10

U threatning me mr buzz 819, who says we go near farms?? Dont matter what u say buddy or how much u try rev me up!! we aint goin no where we are here to stay and have been for 10yrs and we spin tyres there is a big difference to doin 200mph or street racing to what we do!!! Oh and we have never blocked any people from getting thru where we go!!!!!!!! see ya bye mate 🙂

style_maniac said :

Tooks said

Go and organise a legal place to do what you’re doing and none of this will be an issue. Or is the whole (or part of the) attraction of RH based on the fact that it is illegal?…

I think what we should be legal, like I said its a controlled enviroment just like melbourne gp or v8 street races if its conrolled there shouldnt be an issue!

we take our activities out of harms way and residential premises its our own tyres rego cars fuel that we are using.. our tax money goes towards roads so we partly own the roads and 100% own the right to damage our tyres and engines cars whatever u wanna call it, so tell me why is it illegal?? what we do?? and how is it bothering u guys?

Its one night a week that we look forward to, to catch up with mates have a laugh cry or what ever it is, we are one big family and yes there is the occasional people that will ruin it for us but it is hard to control or keep track of how many new people join our group, we have rules and if it gets broken we do deal with the situation accordingly.

It will be our intension to scrutinize our group and make it reputable and safe and get the people off the list that do try and compromise our club. But im telling u now we dont STREET RACE nor DRINK DRIVE.. we just burn a lil bit of rubber that we pay for 🙂

Tooks said

Go and organise a legal place to do what you’re doing and none of this will be an issue. Or is the whole (or part of the) attraction of RH based on the fact that it is illegal?…

I think what we should be legal, like I said its a controlled enviroment just like melbourne gp or v8 street races if its conrolled there shouldnt be an issue!

we take our activities out of harms way and residential premises its our own tyres rego cars fuel that we are using.. our tax money goes towards roads so we partly own the roads and 100% own the right to damage our tyres and engines cars whatever u wanna call it, so tell me why is it illegal?? what we do?? and how is it bothering u guys?

Its one night a week that we look forward to, to catch up with mates have a laugh cry or what ever it is, we are one big family and yes there is the occasional people that will ruin it for us but it is hard to control or keep track of how many new people join our group, we have rules and if it gets broken we do deal with the situation accordingly.

It will be our intension to scrutinize our group and make it reputable and safe and get the people off the list that do try and compromise our club. But im telling u now we dont STREET RACE nor DRINK DRIVE.. we just burn a lil bit of rubber that we pay for 🙂

Besides of course the people who live on farms out there, with the livestock and stuff, who have to use the roads in case of an emergency, but if they were to have to try and leave the area it would be full of wanker’s who think that a good nights entertainment if revving their engines and making their wheels lose traction.

You can’t keep saying that what you are doing is harmless, even in controlled “Legal” conditions on drag ways people die you dim witted knob. You don’t have daylight, you don’t have marshalls, you don’t have a fenced off area. If you think what you are doing is safe then you not only need your head read but you need some good common sense bashed into you.

You wanna do something for the community? F$ck off to NSW and see how much the highway patrol agree with what you’re doing…

style_maniac5:14 pm 13 Dec 10

Tooks said

Go and organise a legal place to do what you’re doing and none of this will be an issue. Or is the whole (or part of the) attraction of RH based on the fact that it is illegal?…

I think what we should be legal, like I said its a controlled enviroment just like melbourne gp or v8 street races if its conrolled there shouldnt be an issue!

we take our activities out of harms way and residential premises its our own tyres rego cars fuel that we are using.. our tax money goes towards roads so we partly own the roads and 100% own the right to damage our tyres and engines cars whatever u wanna call it, so tell me why is it illegal?? what we do?? and how is it bothering u guys?

Its one night a week that we look forward to, to catch up with mates have a laugh cry or what ever it is, we are one big family and yes there is the occasional people that will ruin it for us but it is hard to control or keep track of how many new people join our group, we have rules and if it gets broken we do deal with the situation accordingly.

It will be our intension to scrutinize our group and make it reputable and safe and get the people off the list that do try and compromise our club. But im telling u now we dont STREET RACE nor DRINK DRIVE.. we just burn a lil bit of rubber that we pay for 🙂

School formal burnouts are great, they really make the experience memorable for the kids, they should ammend this to territory law as an exception to the impound rules and protect it as a heritage cultural event that has been going on for decades..

Emotional comments will always bring out the worst of any organization, shit happens, not everyone in RH is skilled on public relations,

its about as diverse as it gets, where else will you find aussies, lebs, europeons, asians, africans, gays, public servants, tradies, etc.. all sharing a common pride? especially in the age bracket consistent with RH, thats about as social as it gets, in sydney/melbourne you find those demographics beating, shooting and stabbing eachother.

what happens outside of RH is the individuals life choices, not rushhours choice, RH can not, nor would it try and control every members actions as an individual.

p1 said:
No, that is to identify the actual Bogan trolls. While there is a majority overlap, the southern-cross-playboy-fangipani-sticker-enrusted-ute driving bogan set and the rush hour we-only-do-burnouts-on-quiet-country-roads-except-at-formal-time set are subtly different.

*********

Hmmm a difficult distinction to appreciate. Thankyou for your educating us. The average exhaust-tip width is certainly larger in the rush hour we-really-like-charity-and-are-great-people-except-if-you-are-cops-or-gays-or-like-safe-roads group.

Incidentally, are there any studies linking exhaust tip diameter to a negative correlation with penis width?

style_maniac said:

Wow U r such a mature person to be sitting there and judging our social life, yea u can sit there and put down my grammer etc etc cos really I dont give a shit considering its not a spelling or grammer test,im sure u will understand what it says..

I’ve been part of rh for along time and guess what yea I have 2 failed families and had a govvie house untill my ex handed it in took my kids and left me homeless, in saying that rh is a social gathering of all kinds of people as we dont discriminate, its a place to talk about good things and problems, yea ok we like to have a bit of fun but its controlled and out of residential areas and in 10 yrs there has been no accidents..

We also do not condone drink driving or street racing and it’s made clear at our meetings so stop saying we street race cos it aint true…

Good to see you get your point across without resorting to the pathetic childish rants of a couple of your buddies.

You say there have been no accidents in 10 yrs, yet I’ve been told by more than one person who have been to your meets that there have been several minor accidents in the past.

The guys that really give your group a bad name are the ones who drive around like idiots with huge Rush Hour stickers on their back windows.

Go and organise a legal place to do what you’re doing and none of this will be an issue. Or is the whole (or part of the) attraction of RH based on the fact that it is illegal?

IBO said :

All you faggot old c*** on here should stop bitching about this and every other little thing that happens in canberra and get a f***ing life! I support rushhour because when you use LOGICAL thinking its the right thing to do. They go out in the middle of nowhere and every person that attends knows the risk involved! Get the f*** over youselves and grow up, so what someone did a burnout at a formal, I can almost guarentee that every person here has sone something stupid in their life. God forbid any of you lonely people ever did anything wrong and it made the local news, I’d be straight on here to give you shit and abuse you because of it just so you know how it feels. I’m going to end my rant on a high note, F*** ALL OF YOU!

Thank you for reading this and i hope to abuse you more in the future, FAGGOTS

Trollololololol.

style_maniac2:23 pm 13 Dec 10

My comment was aimed at mr evil by the way

style_maniac2:21 pm 13 Dec 10

rushhour01 said :

rushhour01 said :

or you could come out to a meet

And yes, you will go away one day. Probably when your 16 year girlfriend falls pregnant for the third time, and you find you can no longer afford to spend your whole weekly wage of $250 on the car, petrol, new tyres every 12 days – whilst also paying child support for Brockie, Tysun and Brieannah, $3500 worth of overdue traffic fines and rent on a guvvie flat.

Either that, or you will end up as another bloody red, meaty smear along some stretch of road at 3am one morning.

Wow U r such a mature person to be sitting there and judging our social life, yea u can sit there and put down my grammer etc etc cos really I dont give a shit considering its not a spelling or grammer test,im sure u will understand what it says..

I’ve been part of rh for along time and guess what yea I have 2 failed families and had a govvie house untill my ex handed it in took my kids and left me homeless, in saying that rh is a social gathering of all kinds of people as we dont discriminate, its a place to talk about good things and problems, yea ok we like to have a bit of fun but its controlled and out of residential areas and in 10 yrs there has been no accidents..

We also do not condone drink driving or street racing and it’s made clear at our meetings so stop saying we street race cos it aint true…

“IBO said :”

“They go out in the middle of nowhere…”

“Like the Convention Centre.”

So you think that every burnout in canberra is immediatly associated with rushhour? Wow your stupid

So you’re denying the purple car doing the burnout outside the convention centre was associated with Rush Hour? Should I make you look even more stupid, or do you wanna come clean?

p1 said: If there was an anti burnout conspiracy running in Canberra, Rush Hour would be the best false flag operation they could ever have considered running to discredit the hoon scene, and paint them all as bogan trolls

Absolutely spot on analysis, p1. But, here’s the thing . . . it ain’t.

As I have said elsewhere within this little part of the intertubes we call RA, if I was still deeply involved in the ACT car club scene and, as such, advocating for broad-usage motorsport facilities for driver education and skills development thereat and the like, I’d be regarding this mob as a liability and in need of extirpation. Certainly I’d be encouraging some level of engagement with them by the more ‘prudent’ cleavages within the motoring enthusiast sphere to seek of them to do the best thing possible for ‘the cause’ . . . that being to simply shut the f**k up!

I thought that was what the southern cross stickers were for?

No, that is to identify the actual Bogan trolls. While there is a majority overlap, the southern-cross-playboy-fangipani-sticker-enrusted-ute driving bogan set and the rush hour we-only-do-burnouts-on-quiet-country-roads-except-at-formal-time set are subtly different.

If there was an anti burnout conspiracy running in Canberra, Rush Hour would be the best false flag operation they could ever have considered running to discredit the hoon scene, and paint them all as bogan trolls.

I thought that was what the southern cross stickers were for?

The thing I find most funny is the formation and identification of this rush hour group within the Canberra scene. Late night burnouts, racing and associated socialising have happened in Canberra for as long as I have lived here. The places to meet, times and like have always been fluid, and since the introduction of mobile phone technology, it has been easier to organise. Ten or fifteen years ago though people were doing the same thing.

Now we have this Rush Hour group forming and identifying themselves with sticker on cars etc. It seems to me that this is a little counter productive. The only valid reasons for such a visible presence is too create a positive public image which can be leveraged into a political lobbying power to get what they want. Instead, all it appears to be doing is getting negative publicity and comments like the arse clown members who post on here.

If there was an anti burnout conspiracy running in Canberra, Rush Hour would be the best false flag operation they could ever have considered running to discredit the hoon scene, and paint them all as bogan trolls.

I actually LOL’D at those posts. Thanks for the laugh rush hour trolls!

IBO said :

IBO said :

They go out in the middle of nowhere…

Like the Convention Centre.

So you think that every burnout in canberra is immediatly associated with rushhour? Wow your stupid.

IBO said :

They go out in the middle of nowhere…

Like the Convention Centre.

rushhour01 said :

or you could come out to a meet

Yeah, I’m up for that… When and where are you next meeting?

IBO said :

Thank you for reading this and i hope to abuse you more in the future, FAGGOTS

Haven’t heard abuse like that since I was about 12. How come you’re not spokesman of rush hour? You could do media releases, news interviews etc.

Keep it up though, with thousands of people reading this site every day, you’re doing wonders for PR.

Unfortunately, it is true, those who break the law and abuse socially un-acceptable behaviour, such as burn-outers and street racers, will not go away, if not for people like us slanderish dibber dobber bloggers and the Police who catch them in the act of their crimes. Slandering a so called legit social car club gives me no satisfaction on Riotact. I get my hits from getting the number plates of the anti social driver, and having the Police remove their car, demerit points or licence. As for RH001 comment on “us” who are slandering Rush hour, I lost count on how many times you used the word “slander” in your last post, littlone the posts prior in which you actually slandered other Rioters more than they possibly did you! PS. Dont expect any responding slanderish comment back from me. My tongue is not as bald as your tyres!

Well that little film clip was exciting NOT! I suppose they (petrol heads) have to make it up somehow considering they have little d..ks!

georgesgenitals said :

Rushhour are just awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x7p5N1tcpY

such sarcasm…!

+1

Unfortunately, it is true, those who break the law and abuse socially un-acceptable behaviour, such as burn-outers and street racers, will not go away, if not for people like us slanderish dibber dobber bloggers and the Police who catch them in the act of their crimes. Slandering a so called legit social car club gives me no satisfaction on Riotact. I get my hits from getting the number plates of the anti social driver, and having the Police remove their car, demerit points or licence. As for RH001 comment on “us” who are slandering Rush hour, I lost count on how many times you used the word “slander” in your last post, littlone the posts prior in which you actually slandered other Rioters more than they possibly did you! PS. Dont expect any responding slanderish comment back from me. My tongue is not as bald as your tyres!

no matter what there will be so called hoons in cannberra there is no problem with rush hour boys will be boys, if it doesnt effect you the why put shit on the car club i have been there a few times and friends with alot of the people that associate stop accusing them and get on with it, maybe if the politicians actually get a drag stip for the “hoons” in canberra there wouldnt be on the street!

“Sitting there acting like the perfect law biting citizen makes me sick. “

Hilarious. Are you a troll?

All you faggot old c*** on here should stop bitching about this and every other little thing that happens in canberra and get a f***ing life! I support rushhour because when you use LOGICAL thinking its the right thing to do. They go out in the middle of nowhere and every person that attends knows the risk involved! Get the f*** over youselves and grow up, so what someone did a burnout at a formal, I can almost guarentee that every person here has sone something stupid in their life. God forbid any of you lonely people ever did anything wrong and it made the local news, I’d be straight on here to give you shit and abuse you because of it just so you know how it feels. I’m going to end my rant on a high note, F*** ALL OF YOU!

Thank you for reading this and i hope to abuse you more in the future, FAGGOTS

As my last post (being my first ever comment on riotACT)

i had decided to comment as your constant slandering of RushHour (something you have obviously no clue about) and your constant slandering of people I associate with!

Your ability to criticise people says a lot about yourself as a person im aware this site is all about “having your say” but speaking that much crap about something u have no clue about is ridicules. Sitting there acting like the perfect law biting citizen makes me sick. Yes they do burnouts get over it your little opinion doesn’t count but what ever makes u feel like you have had your say.

Its not about defending anything or anyone its about coming to an understanding without slandering and categorising good people!

ok ill stop rushhour and every person in canberra from ever doing burnouts ever again….. hahaha yeah right… and the only reason i signed up to this site (today i might add) was to have a laugh and it worked… your a very amusing bunch.. and sorry to burst your bubble… but i will continue to go to…support,.. and enjoy rushhour.. as i have been for the past 10 years…i wonder if all you haters on this site are as social as we are…obviously not… but im more thaan happy to send out some free rushhour stickers for your prius’ and some kids shirts for your inbred children.. gotta keep the name out there… obviously gives you something to talk about 🙂
have a nice day..

the RusHHouR group 😀

maybe if you stepped out from behind your keyboard once in a while and realised what the real world was like

He says, while sitting behind a keyboard…

but this photo gets out and it makes the news insted of all the armmed robberys and drug busts around canberra

Really? I’ve seen plenty in the news about armed robberies and drug busts, but nothing about this story (other than on this site).

good use of police resorces ay…. yeah get the hoon squad back out way to waste more time for police to be driving around the countryside looking for some guys doing burnouts in their cars

ACT police have a branch called Traffic Operations, whose sole purpose is to enforce – wait for it – TRAFFIC OFFENCES. This includes numpties like your mate who do burnouts in the middle of the CBD. BTW, what happened to taking burnouts away from the suburbs?

Your stupidity speaks for itself. It is amusing to read comments like “we don’t care what you think” etc, while you’re obviously stewing away, thinking about some more witty comebacks to responses you don’t care about.

rh001 said :

I myself find this quite hysterical!

A bunch of (over the hill) boggers on a public forum having a tantrum about certain subjects trying to make a point to people who really couldn’t give two hoots!

Yeah, you don’t give two hoots, which is why you have an account on this site and have rushed (no pun intended) to rush hour’s defence a lot recently.

I myself find this quite hysterical!

A bunch of (over the hill) boggers on a public forum having a tantrum about certain subjects trying to make a point to people who really couldn’t give two hoots!

i find your diverse yet immature way of categorising and degrading people on online forums a disgrace not to the person in question but to yourself! really who do u think u are? im guessing you where young and stupid at some point of your life and not always someone filling cyberspace with your pointless derogatory opinions. I myself do not do burnouts but yet know alot of people who do. i attend there meetings to socialise I have a reputable job I own, my own car that I have brought myself.

So I’m guessing your categorising rush hour as a bunch of bogans “irresponsible and dangerous fools “ you are VERY wrong , I’m sure your children are not perfect and im sure you yourself are not as perfect as u make yourself out to be! So in closing open your eyes step away from your key bored and walk out side .. Do u hear any burnouts do u see radical amounts of black marks out your front yard? guess not? Rh is a group trying to direct young people out of your suburbs and streets into secluded areas as the government doesn’t find it important to work with younger “hoon” drivers and just come up with more revenue rating schemes with there scare tactics WELL guess what its always going to happen no matter how much pathetic unreasonable one sided politically wrong! CRAP you pathetic no life bloggers write on RiotACT

cheers,

*awaiting for some more pathetic views *

Solidarity said :

So how does anything in this article have anything to do with Summernats?

Looked at a calendar lately?

So how does anything in this article have anything to do with Summernats?

hahaha yeah I knew I would get a good laugh out of u heroes….oh a grammar Nazi…. yeah u hurt my feelings….ur both pests…. real keyboard warriors and to “mr Evil” scary name bro.. we will not go away… and there is absolutely nothing u can do… does that annoy you? at least if I end up as “another bloody red, meaty smear along some stretch of road at 3am one morning.” at least ill die happy.. doing what I love… im guessing u will probably end up found slumped over your keyboard on riot act surrounded by tissues, and photos of all the girls that shut you down over the years……… and im actually very successful in my line of work…. which also has to do with cars…. so its just what I do… and what’s wrong with ripping off the government living in a flat paying $60 a week rent…. more money to spend on going out and smoking up some tyres.. in mums car of course…. but if u don’t want us doing it out the road somewhere at 3 am…. what’s your address? we will do it in the suburbs and then see how much we really bother you… or you could come out to a meet and toughen up and tell the average group of 120 members what u think about them.. im sure that will end well for you… but seriously cant we just be friends hahahaha………tool

we aint going anywhere 🙂

Not if they crush your cars, you’re not.

Be happy though – it might give you some time to spend learning grammar, spelling and punctuation. Everybody wins.

god u people make me laugh…..your making out that this was the only car thats ever done a burnout at a formal…. maybe if you stepped out from behind your keyboard once in a while and realised what the real world was like…. people drive like idiots every day of the week…. all ages… all kind of cars… but this photo gets out and it makes the news insted of all the armmed robberys and drug busts around canberra… good use of police resorces ay…. yeah get the hoon squad back out way to waste more time for police to be driving around the countryside looking for some guys doing burnouts in their cars….the police can try as hard as they like to stop it… but it wont happen… or they can shut car clubs like rushhour down andthen see how many more people are doing it in suburbsn streets… u can say what you like to me as i just sit back and laugh at your pathetic way of putting your 2 cents in….oh and the guy that owns this car is just unlucky he was the one to get done.. for some people its a way of life…. a little bit like all you guys sitting behind your computer saying what everyone else should do and why u dont like it…. but it hate to tell you… we aint going anywhere 🙂 thought the police would have figured this out after 10 years 😉

Wow – what a moron! Did u rite that all by urself, or did u get mummmy to do it for u?

And yes, you will go away one day. Probably when your 16 year girlfriend falls pregnant for the third time, and you find you can no longer afford to spend your whole weekly wage of $250 on the car, petrol, new tyres every 12 days – whilst also paying child support for Brockie, Tysun and Brieannah, $3500 worth of overdue traffic fines and rent on a guvvie flat.

Either that, or you will end up as another bloody red, meaty smear along some stretch of road at 3am one morning.

I hope for your sake, it’s the former.

god u people make me laugh…..your making out that this was the only car thats ever done a burnout at a formal…. maybe if you stepped out from behind your keyboard once in a while and realised what the real world was like…. people drive like idiots every day of the week…. all ages… all kind of cars… but this photo gets out and it makes the news insted of all the armmed robberys and drug busts around canberra… good use of police resorces ay…. yeah get the hoon squad back out way to waste more time for police to be driving around the countryside looking for some guys doing burnouts in their cars….the police can try as hard as they like to stop it… but it wont happen… or they can shut car clubs like rushhour down andthen see how many more people are doing it in suburbsn streets… u can say what you like to me as i just sit back and laugh at your pathetic way of putting your 2 cents in….oh and the guy that owns this car is just unlucky he was the one to get done.. for some people its a way of life…. a little bit like all you guys sitting behind your computer saying what everyone else should do and why u dont like it…. but it hate to tell you… we aint going anywhere 🙂 thought the police would have figured this out after 10 years 😉

thy_dungeonman said :

what’s with all the focus on the car? it’s not going anywhere without the driver, they should rescind his licence for at least a year or so without anyh provisions even if he does have to work, that’s his loss. Furthermore anyone letting him drive their car should be penalised.

You can drive unlicensed. You can’t drive a car that either a) isn’t there, or b) is a cube.

thy_dungeonman8:59 pm 11 Dec 10

Special G said :

Special G said :

I’m all for public car crushings.

Never mind crushing, take possession of them and sell them off! That’d make a packet more than speed camera fines.

what’s with all the focus on the car? it’s not going anywhere without the driver, they should rescind his licence for at least a year or so without anyh provisions even if he does have to work, that’s his loss. Furthermore anyone letting him drive their car should be penalised.

Special G said :

I’m all for public car crushings.

Never mind crushing, take possession of them and sell them off! That’d make a packet more than speed camera fines.

A purple Commodore? Should have been taken off the road years ago on taste grounds.

Bit of a Darwin Awards effort from the driver, who must have thought that if he covered his eyes, no one would see him or his uneek car.

Still waiting for the Commodore buyback scheme, which would greatly reduce crime.

I’m all for public car crushings.

Funniest thing I’ve read all week. Obviously has more money than brains.

Clown Killer4:35 pm 10 Dec 10

gotta love a nanny state.

screaming banshee4:27 pm 10 Dec 10

bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

This senseless showoff deserved to lose his vehicle, 90 days loss of the vehicle and fronting the court is probably not enough…..crush the car I say. I think the local legislation allows for the court to order the vehicle to be seized if the driver has been convicted of similar burn out type offences in the previous five years. I am sure a DH like this particular driver would have come to the attention of the coppers before.
What happened to the local traffic coppers having a burnout squad? I can remember three or four years ago it was in the news often about the “hoon squad” seizing over 100 vehicles for burnouts. There should be a “hoon squad” now and not just for catching irresponsible and dangerous fools at school formals, but also to get stuck into the “rush hour” group who think they are above the law…and why I am on my soap box…targetting the fools who think the suburbs are an appropriate place to do burnouts. Just look at the black tyre marks spread pretty evenly around our fine city and suburbs. This will get worse with the Summernats (and I am NOT against that event) when every Tom, Dick and Mustapha will try to immitate their heroes on our suburban streets.

Holden Caulfield2:37 pm 10 Dec 10

So, could you make out the number plate on that RX3 at the Museum too?

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