And people said, when Queensland talked proudly of it's new hoon legislation where for a first offence they take your car for three months, the second time within five years it's crushed, that "It'll only be for "serious" hoons like street racing and excessive speeding and dangerous driving...don't worry about being victimised as a hoon for doing something minor".
...Really....?
"Cruising...where groups of vehicles slowly drive around an area to exhibit their vehicles"...explain
that one...
I don't care what people try and explain it away with...when push comes to shove, it is down to the policeman who pulls you over as to what "hooning" is defined as. If he thinks you've been hooning and need to be taught a lesson, you damn well will be.
I realised it was like this after talking to many serving and ex-police officers who all say that when you are sitting there at a radar trap and catch someone, if they challenge it in court, the officer will say something along the lines of "I looked up and saw the vehicle approaching me at what I estimated to be X kilometers per hour, which I then confirmed with the speed gun".
This cleverly means you are not questioning the accuracy of a piece of technology, you are questioning the judgement of a trained police officer, which a court will look dimly upon.
In another thread about the new hoon laws up here, I said that police will pick on a vehicle. I gave the example of being here for four years and never having been pulled over, my son getting a ticket in my very visible bright red Celica, and then within the next several weeks I was pulled over three times for "random licence checks", or "random vehicle and rego checks", etc. It wasn't the driver they cared about...it was the car, and they couldn't care less who was driving it. It was a prime example of the old "There's a done up car...let's pull him over to see if we can catch him on anything" while ignoring the stuttering rustbuckets clattering around the streets...
/rant...
