Boy racer car crushing legislation

[GTCRSHR]

they say us poms moan .....

[pjay]

Lol saw a ad in Takapuna this morning saying

Telecom XT: Plans so simple even us Poms understand them

Or something liek that

[GTCRSHR]

Lol saw a ad in Takapuna this morning saying

Telecom XT: Plans so simple even us Poms understand them

Or something liek that

is should really have said ....

"Kiwi's so stupid they will pay me $2million to say a few words on a advert"

[xsspeed]

is should really have said ....

"I am short, almost midget sized"

Bloody poms eh

Always having a whinge

[B1NZ]

the latest "Boyracer" to hit the headlines:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2456523 ... e-law-IPCA

The Auckland police officer who seriously injured an Auckland teenager was breaking both the law and police policy and should not have been speeding, the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) has found.

Constable Aaron Holmes drove at a speed of 70kmh-80kmh in a 50kmh zone near a school as he was looking for a van that had sped off from a checkpoint on August 3, 2007.

He crashed into a lamp post at a pedestrian crossing, with the post striking 14-year-old Farhat Buksh on the head, causing serious head injuries.

"Constable Holmes drove in a manner that was contrary to the law," said IPCA chairwoman Justice Lowell Goddard. "As he was not engaged in a pursuit or in urgent duty driving, there was no justification for him exceeding the speed limit."

In driving in the manner that he did, Holmes put the public at unjustified risk, and was solely responsible for the crash and the resulting serious injury to Farhat Buksh, she said.

Holmes was charged with aggravated careless use of a motor vehicle causing injury. He was convicted in Auckland District Court and disqualified from driving for a year and ordered to pay his victim $3000.

In February, the sentence and conviction were upheld on appeal to the High Court.

[B1NZ]

ooh and a funny granny racer story:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/2458802 ... rs-gasping

She's got an $80,000 car pimped out with TV screens and a custom-fitted white leather interior.

Her 2008 Mitsubishi Evo 10 does 0 to 100kmh in 4.8 seconds and she admits to having dragged off some boy racers at the lights. With ease.

Oh, and she's 71 years old.

Redcliffs housewife, mother-of-four and grandmother-of-nine Rona McKay is Christchurch's first (and possibly only) nana racer.

McKay bought the high-performance car from Christchurch dealers Donnithorne Simms after her husband got himself "a big Lexus hybrid". Rona decided she needed something nice for her retirement as well.

McKay bought the car six months ago, but had to wait a little for the white model to be specially shipped in.

"I had to get the seats raised. It was a bit low for me I'm only five foot one (1.55 metres) and I couldn't see over the steering wheel."

Unable to see out the back window either, McKay had a rear-facing video camera installed to show her what she was backing into.

McKay, married for 55 years and proud of her garden (a triple prize winner), spoke to The Press after dropping her granddaughter's lunchbox to her at school. "The grandchildren say, if you're going to pick us up from school today, Nana, can you please, please pick us up in the Evo?"

And when she gets them in the back seat (no icecreams), the kids can be a bad influence.

"I have had a wee race. I shouldn't say this but I pulled up to the lights and I saw these young boys.

"They thought, 'We'll beat this old woman off the mark'. The kids in the back said, 'Go, Nana, go' and those boys got such a shock when I went past them."

McKay said that despite the negative press given to boy racers, she found them courteous and respectful.

"What I like the best is when I go past all these boy racers in their hard-up cars and they give me the thumbs-up. A couple of them followed me into a petrol station.

"They said, 'We're not getting petrol, we were just following you, please can we have a look at your car'."

McKay said she was a very careful driver who in 54 years of driving had never had a ticket or a crash.

[Brick]

"I had to get the seats raised. It was a bit low for me I'm only five foot one (1.55 metres) and I couldn't see over the steering wheel."

I see her quite often as she drives past my place all the time, it always cracks me up seeing a little old lady drving an evo X

[levinguy]

this whole thing is ridiculous, just today me and my mate got told that we had been spotted drifting in the mitsi flat deck truck we where driving with a car on the back of it (in busy holiday traffic!) and that if we wern't carfeul we will be done for sustained loss of traction and they would impound it. he also mentioned that he was lucky it wasn't the end of the year or he would be crushing it.



..... wot ..

[Bling]

Well did you lose traction at all?

[Alex B]

Not the point, they can't crush on a first offence anyway. The media love the crusing thing, they dont seem to be focusing on the fact it will only be for the worst offenders.

[levinguy]

nope, just driving normally in holiday traffic, i think this thing would struggle to lose traction, stopped to help at a crash, some guy went up to the cop and told him that we where doing powerslides... 4 cops and 2 hours later we were aloud to go.

they even got out the corner scales and weighed the truck

[B1NZ]

Does this law mean the end for the V8 beach hops etc? Or are the government just going to go against the human rights act and discriminate against young people for driving somewhere with their mates