Burnout Fine

[Damo]

Whoaaaah, that's harsh. I got caught doing a burnout once, my fine was $110 and no points. The charge was Burnout/Fishtail Fail to stay within the lines of traffic. I guess I should consider myself very lucky.

[Van D]

Well if Knox cops are that strict, perhaps they should go around to the ozone at night more often..
Those guys around there are pure ****ers. I've being threatened and chased by them a few times, mainly because I stuck up for the girls I was with at the time.

My mate got beaten there, and another had the gang of guys there follow him to his car then damage it when he drove off on them.

Maybe if the cops wern't so lazy to actually LEAVE their station they could focus on better things...

[Bobman]

It's sad.. whenever you pass St Kilda police station there's always a line of about 5 marked police cars.

But minor traffic ingringements get the major punishment, where *larger* crimes get a slap on the wrist.. the only explanation is they make more money off you from just driving around which is a sad reflection on our corrupt law & order system in Oz.

Those who say "he should've got more e.t.c" should think about the people who get caught for robbery, manslaughter etc and their lenient sentences.

[Laminge]

Maybe we can send some of the images posted on here over time and ask for a % back as a spotters fee?

[LUXO_8]

LMAO evil santa!

[EL_futuraistic]

Yeah knox police are very well known for their "zero tolerance" for modified vehicles. I have seen them operating a RWC tester in the shopping centre near KFC.

$5000 fine and a suspended jail term is a fair slap... i would guess he has previous convictions for similar behavior.

Everyone knows its fairly easy to spin the wheels when taking off in a manual car, but from the sounds of it he wasnt just taking off and doing outside a police station is just........ dumber than words can describe.

[Bobman]

Yeah true, media tends to beat up everything

[Allen]

You have to remember, according to police, chirping the tyres as you engage 1st gear/changing gear is considered a burnout... This guy is the statesman may have been doing a gary myers impression, or maybe just being a little too enthusiastic off the line... we simply dont know...

Either way, $5000 and 6 months suspended is way too heavy handed/exaggerated... you'd get less for assult...

Im sure there are far more threatening things on the roads... like the truckers on the Hume Hwy that blatenly run the red light here in Craigieburn... ive almost been roadkill before, because of them... id rather see police resorces being put towards this kind of danger...

[Bobman]

Agreed, police really need to pull their heads out and be "police" not just tin shakers for GovCo.

[buickman]

The high penalty is what drew my attention to the write up.

But also a police officer got his foot run over last week in Gilbert park drive of F/Gull Rd as police were trying to control about 40 cars doing burnouts & drag racing. With even lines marked down the road for the 1/4 mile. So I guess they are showing zero tolerance with hoons in the Knox area

[Thunder]

Sorry, but where's Knox?

[AdzT3-146]

In the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

[LTDHO]

Originally Posted by fairlane_ghia

You have to remember, according to police, chirping the tyres as you engage 1st gear/changing gear is considered a burnout... This guy is the statesman may have been doing a gary myers impression, or maybe just being a little too enthusiastic off the line... we simply dont know...

Either way, $5000 and 6 months suspended is way too heavy handed/exaggerated... you'd get less for assult...

Im sure there are far more threatening things on the roads... like the truckers on the Hume Hwy that blatenly run the red light here in Craigieburn... ive almost been roadkill before, because of them... id rather see police resorces being put towards this kind of danger...

Unfortunally chirping the wheels is not having control or dangerous. This is a Joke.
However purposely pumping out tyre smoke is dangerous and should = $5000 fines.

[Redrum]

Who was the Magistrate? He/she deserves a big pat on the back!!

[Nappa]

i think the sentence was fair, I guess we don’t know the history of the whole deal, but i'd say he was a repeat offender, actually I’d probably bet on the fact that he would already have received fines from the cops for previous instances, its people like that who don’t learn until someone gets tough with them or they kill someone.
For those who know it that’s a pretty busy intersection 3 lanes crossing 4 lanes, and lots of traffic.

[DivHunter]

Originally Posted by popinfresh

Well if Knox cops are that strict, perhaps they should go around to the ozone at night more often..
Those guys around there are pure ****ers. I've being threatened and chased by them a few times, mainly because I stuck up for the girls I was with at the time.

My mate got beaten there, and another had the gang of guys there follow him to his car then damage it when he drove off on them.

Maybe if the cops wern't so lazy to actually LEAVE their station they could focus on better things...

Just remember to keep a baseball with your bat and you're all good : Ozone security was stepped up after the stabbing though, at least for a while.

The Knox police are notorious for being nit piky bastards and general modified car haters.

[AnthonyQLD]

Originally Posted by MADNC_8

if he's had previous fines for it, then they will be that high....

i would say he has been in trouble before :

[Keepleft]

Originally Posted by eb91xr6

i was doing a u turn and accedently spun the wheels accross 3 lains when no one was comming so it was all safe when a car from the other side of the road saw. he handed me a $170 fine for purpus loss of controll. i lernt my lesson

You learn't what exactly? To not 'accidently' spin your wheels across 3-lanes?

Bucknaked wrote: "If your gonna act like a dick on the roads, then you suffer the consequences. Road laws are there for a reason".

Yeah, speed laws for example, anything above 110km/h is terrifying, if you exceed 122km/h ona freeway it is a fact that your car will burst into a fireball!


How many times have you seen idiots loose contol of the car after doing a burnout.

A couple of times over 15 years or so.


$5,000 isn't enough. Car should be taken and sold at auction.

This willing desire by some folk to readily handle to the State what is for most people their second most valuable life possession after their cat/dog/parrot or house, is sadly unsettling. Next thing we'll be calling for the confiscation of their personal house and land, or part thereof, of habitual traffic offenders and those caught doing 130km/h on motorways.



Theres a difference of getting a little wheel spin when you take off and sitting there smoking it up. If your gonna do a burnout and get caught, you should not be on the roads.

Agreed. That said, - it's okay to do one - just don't get caught?

Sorry, messing with you:-)

[stockel]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked
If your gonna act like a dick on the roads, then you suffer the consequences. Road laws are there for a reason. How many times have you seen idiots loose contol of the car after doing a burnout. $5,000 isn't enough. Car should be taken and sold at auction. Theres a difference of getting a little wheel spin when you take off and sitting there smoking it up. If your gonna do a burnout and get caught, you should not be on the roads.

This guy sounds like a real moron. Doing a burnout isn't bad ebough, but in front of the police station. What a goose. He should loose his licence for 2 years or more, confiscate his car and sell it and restrict him from driving anything more than 1.8 litre for 5 years when his suspension is finnished. Nail him to the wall. He deserves it.

: I agree it's ok unless you get caught!!!!!! :

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by Laminge

Maybe we can send some of the images posted on here over time and ask for a % back as a spotters fee?

Lol! Merry christmas eh?

Seems like the guy copped a fair penalty. Got nicked, fair and square so he couldnt be too cut up about it, surely?

6 month suspended sentence. Apologies my attention to detail is not fantastic at this time of day so im sorry if its been covered - but did he lose his licence?

[BOSS 540]

Originally Posted by T_Terror

Are you sure it was $5000? I didnt think the fine for dangerous driving extended that far.

Prettysure he knew what he was doing as the Knox cops are notorious for being hardarses against nice cars.

Still think its abit steep though. Most of the people arrested in cronulla wont get punishments even close to that.

Whats Cronulla got to do with it?. Your comparing what, doing a burnout in car (albeit in a stupid location) to: gangbashings, stabbing pedestrians, smashing up cars with baseball bats?

[thunderoo]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked

If your gonna act like a dick on the roads, then you suffer the consequences. Road laws are there for a reason. How many times have you seen idiots loose contol of the car after doing a burnout. $5,000 isn't enough. Car should be taken and sold at auction. Theres a difference of getting a little wheel spin when you take off and sitting there smoking it up. If your gonna do a burnout and get caught, you should not be on the roads.

This guy sounds like a real moron. Doing a burnout isn't bad ebough, but in front of the police station. What a goose. He should loose his licence for 2 years or more, confiscate his car and sell it and restrict him from driving anything more than 1.8 litre for 5 years when his suspension is finnished. Nail him to the wall. He deserves it.

What he said....... :ticking:

[mustang]

in cairns there was one like that but this was 6 cars lined up 3 at the front then 3 behind one was a rotary and it was wet but they all lit it up. but just b4 that a cop car had turned down a road at the lights and the cop did a u turn and met the car with the rotary up the road cause it was the loudest and they could it was the same one so he got his car taken from him and he to go to court to see if he could get it bak but as far as i know he hasnt got it back( anti hooning LawS)

[klawsterfobik]

=/ i disagree. I agree that it was a stupid thing to do, especially out side of a police station, and if he has had prior convictions etc., 5k is probably reasonable to get it through his head.

But, how many people here can truthfully raise their hand and say that they've NEVER deliberately spun their wheels on a public road. Wether it be at an intersection, or on a half cut up back road down the back of Lorne? I wont assume that everybody has, but i would think that most have.

I think there are worse traffic infringements out there, unlicensed driving, driving unregistered cars, knowingly driving unroadworthy cars... Yeah driving is a privilege and all that, but people f**kup every now and then, we're only human. But i reckon 90% of the time most people are good drivers.

[nat_daly]

Originally Posted by klawsterfobik

=/ i disagree. I agree that it was a stupid thing to do, especially out side of a police station, and if he has had prior convictions etc., 5k is probably reasonable to get it through his head.

But, how many people here can truthfully raise their hand and say that they've NEVER deliberately spun their wheels on a public road. Wether it be at an intersection, or on a half cut up back road down the back of Lorne? I wont assume that everybody has, but i would think that most have.

I think there are worse traffic infringements out there, unlicensed driving, driving unregistered cars, knowingly driving unroadworthy cars... Yeah driving is a privilege and all that, but people f**kup every now and then, we're only human. But i reckon 90% of the time most people are good drivers.

man i completely agree with you..
well said

[fast66]

Originally Posted by Papa Smurf

Like as has been said by others here, he may have been an habitual idiot who does these sort of things for a thrill? He got what he deserved.

WHat would have happened if this moron had blown a tyre or broke an axle? The car may have become airborne and KILLED or MAIMED someone? that is why they call it Dangerous Driving.

Airborne?? Im not sure what you think a burnout is, but reckon it would be a little hard to get airborne. Lets get a little perspective and not carry on like Today Tonight would does.
However, this guy must be one of the dumbest motherf.....s ever.
I just have a problem, when situations such as repeat drink drivers get way less than a $5000 fine.

[stockel]

Originally Posted by fast66

Airborne?? Im not sure what you think a burnout is, but reckon it would be a little hard to get airborne. Lets get a little perspective and not carry on like Today Tonight would does.
However, this guy must be one of the dumbest motherf.....s ever.
I just have a problem, when situations such as repeat drink drivers get way less than a $5000 fine.

HAHA I know what you are saying here but believe it or not I think the airborne thing is a fair piont. If you think about it when he is lighting them up on the street if he doe's lose it sideways what is something he is likely to come into immediate contact with ? curb. Curb + speed = airborne. I have personally seen it happen by the way! - car snapped and hit the curb fast enough to get air!!! Although I must say not much air lol! :

[Stevo]

Ive never been pulled over by knox cops. But then again i havent done anything wrong around that area.
I think some people have gone a bit overboard with this thread. yes you should be fined for doing something illegal. Plain and simple. Unless you know the guy, you will never know what he got fined, nor what he acctually did. Arguing about the facts in the newspaper is a bit silly.

I like the odd burnout, but it has to be done in the right spot, right time, without endangering anyone else.

[Allen]

airbourne is possible, if you remember a few weeks ago, the honda that was showing off to the school kids in broadmeadows, lost it, hit the kerb and flew through the bus stop where the kids were sitting... Just goes to show how these morons on the road are potential disasters...

I think the biggest deterant for this, is to paint all the unmarked police cars white with lights and a siren on top... if these people see more police cars on the road then they may behave.

[stockel]

Originally Posted by Stevo

Ive never been pulled over by knox cops. But then again i havent done anything wrong around that area.
I think some people have gone a bit overboard with this thread. yes you should be fined for doing something illegal. Plain and simple. Unless you know the guy, you will never know what he got fined, nor what he acctually did. Arguing about the facts in the newspaper is a bit silly.

I like the odd burnout, but it has to be done in the right spot, right time, without endangering anyone else.

haha voice of reason - overboard and silly is fun tho you got to admit!! :

At the end of the day there will always be d***heads on the roads, personally I think there is a much greater percentage of people out there that simply can't drive safely through lack of skill/experience/knowledge/caring than there is 'hoons'!