Bridal Party Burnouts

[Lotte]

Originally Posted by Elks

Now whilst I think burnouts are dumb, and prove nothing. Let's face it anything with 200hp can do a burnout. One thing confuses me greatly.

Now for some unpopular statistics. We have had 70 people killed on Victorian Roads this year, and hundreds more injured. Of these how many were actually burning rubber.

I get the risks. I'm particularly unhappy about seeing the kid standing beside the road, but it's about time some reality got back into the road saftey debate.

Here's one example from last year (quick goggles search pulled this up - I'm not even trying):
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law...-1226807443389

There's also the property damage problem with this, if they do lose control, and don't hurt anyone, but still damage property.

I know what you're saying, however, the risk consequences are seriously high in a suburban area. Lose control of your car doing a donut and crash into somebody else's house? Lives and property lost and injured. Etc etc etc. There is a time and a place, and the more we make acceptable, the more people push boundaries (hence why we've gone in a matter of years from doing this in industrial estates to doing it in built up areas). I could tell you many a story of my uncles getting up to **** that could have killed them, but they kept it away from others - and that's the important part.

Agree, we need to get some reality back into the road safety debate, but it's important in this case to not just focus in on how it's safe/unsafe, but also how it effects the people around us. Basic consideration goes a long way, hence why I don't play my music overly loud except on odd occasions, why I tell visitors to not be knob ends and rev the hell out of their cars outside of my house, and why anyone that comes to my place and does a burnout in my street gets permabanned from visiting. I have neighbours, I rent, I don't want to **** them off.

To be perfectly honest, if someone is allowed to do a burnout two doors down from us (a t intersection with a court), that results in me having to wait to leave my street, my cat is allowed to go **** on their front lawn. I can guarantee most people here would be ropable if their neighbours cat did that. But ultimately: they're being a nuisance to me, so I can be a nuisance to them.

It's possible the group in this video notified the street (they claim to have had council approval - lol), but it's also probable they didn't. And if they didn't, I'd be a pretty ****ed off neighbour lady.