FST4RD wrote:Best thing would be to impound the car there and then, better even if it's a mates car! Crush it, take their licence from them for 2 years. If they get caught driving or anything within that 2 years it starts again, but 3 years, caught again licence taken from them forever and 3 months jail.
I don't think fines will do anything...
Exactly what i think, even if my posts differ from this it definitely is what needs to be done to put a stop to it.
1983 Trueno Ae86 ( project), 92 HSV Clubbie. 2000 Fielder wagon
Many previously owned projects: 94 Hilux 4WD, 92 VP SS commodore, AE85 notchback, Ae85 rolling shell, Ke35 sr coupe, EP82 turb starlet
Seems for most, fines just get ticked up, untill the gov writes them off, and they seem to get off without even a slap on the wrist.
Then for others like me, you get a parking fine for no rego (which for the life of me I dont remember getting), then 2 years later they find were you live and dam near confiscate your car for it!!!! Imagine that suprise
I know a guy (not a friend) that had close to $30k worth of fines, he did 2 half days of community service and had the lot lot written off!
I think that if they are going to get community service it should be done at minimum wage. So $30,000 at $12.75 (I think that's the minimum wage) is 294 days at 8 hours a day. No weekends, 294 straight days, you miss a day BAM another 50 days.
FST4RD wrote:I know a guy (not a friend) that had close to $30k worth of fines, he did 2 half days of community service and had the lot lot written off! I think that if they are going to get community service it should be done at minimum wage. So $30,000 at $12.75 (I think that's the minimum wage) is 294 days at 8 hours a day. No weekends, 294 straight days, you miss a day BAM another 50 days.
Nah the max community work the courts give out is 400 hours. Any more they send you to prison.
FST4RD wrote:I know a guy (not a friend) that had close to $30k worth of fines, he did 2 half days of community service and had the lot lot written off! I think that if they are going to get community service it should be done at minimum wage. So $30,000 at $12.75 (I think that's the minimum wage) is 294 days at 8 hours a day. No weekends, 294 straight days, you miss a day BAM another 50 days.
Nah the max community work the courts give out is 400 hours. Any more they send you to prison.
Hmmm... well instead of clogging up the prisons I think hundreds of days of community service with no weekends. At least then if they didn't have weekends, and still had to work a job to make ends meet they won't have any time to cause trouble. 8 hours community service, 8 hours working and 8 hours sleeping, perfect day for these drop kicks
But another (belated) vote ++ for the posted comments and apparent attitude toward this, validates my long standing view that we're well above the 'boyracer' stereotype.
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Found myself yelling out to slow down at a young muppet in a noisy s4 RX7 the other day flooring it past my house.
Didnt seem like that long ago that that woulda been me
Mr Revhead wrote:It was pretty obvious it wasn't the car
Yea , how do you do 3 loss of traction's in a car with no motor / wheels etc
EP82 Starlet GT club race car;
best time around Manfield to date : 1:19:91
"Understeer" is when you hit the fence with the front of the car.
"Oversteer" is when you hit the fence with the rear of the car.
"Horsepower" is how fast you hit the fence.
"Torque" is how far you take the fence with you.
sounds like the driver needs a bit of a crushing too.
its all well and good to go on about how young males dont understand consequences and shit. but theres no way i was that much of a toss pot at that age.
