"Hoon cars" auctioned off...can you pick the problem?

[2011G6E]

See if you can pick the glaring fault with this story...better if you saw the item on the Seven TV news tonight...
http://www.ipswichadvertiser.com.au/...-under-hammer/

ELEVEN cars confiscated from serial hooners in the state's south-east will go under the hammer on the Gold Coast.

The vehicles up for grabs have been confiscated by police over the past month from problem drivers, including drunk, speeding and unlicensed motorists.

A number of illegally-modified vehicles also make up the confiscated pool.

The cars will go to auction on the Gold Coast on Wednesday.

Police Minister Jack Dempsey said the hooning crackdown would continue.

"Each one of these vehicles has been taken away from a repeat offender who was caught either driving an unregistered or uninsured vehicle, driving whilst unlicensed or disqualified, drink driving with a blood alcohol content above 0.15% or failing to supply a specimen to police," he said.

"Hoons"...? Those people, in my opinion, deserve their cars taken off them. They're truly a danger in one way or another to everyone else.

The story does finally mention "hoons", but only seemingly as an afterthought...

"They have also been impounded from hoons and people driving illegally modified vehicles."

The TV story showed the horrifying modified hoon death carnage cars they auctioned off...a ratty old HiLux, a grandpa-spec late 1990's Corolla, a burned out something, a bent BA Falcon that looks to have hit a pole, a pretty ordinary looking EF or EL Falcon...but nothing I could see as what would stereotypically be called a "hoon car" like a nicely modded WRX or Silvia or Skyline...funny that...

But guess which car if you were driving it would be pulled over first by the cops...the ratty Hilux driven by an unlicenced tipsy idiot, or the young guy in a modified import Skyline he's driving normally and has poured his lifes savings into...?

[Jim Goose]

Yes i saw the news too...
Had to laugh at the burnt out shell for sale? Why???
To take the plates from it and rebody another stolen car?

All of them where heaps of junk.

[Tysonv48]

As long as they can differentiate between hoons and car enthusiasts

I hate being grouped in the same category as hoons

[39ClevoUte]

Easy answer is don't watch sensational tv channels like 7, 9 and 10. It's funny how anyone associated with any story on any of these stations can show how the story was distorted and sensationalised.... that must tell you something???

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by Tysonv48

As long as they can differentiate between hoons and car enthusiasts

I hate being grouped in the same category as hoons

Yes well, perhaps I'm taking it the wrong way...it's probably actually a good thing that whenever they show either confiscated cars or an auction of "hoon cars", you never seem to see what I called stereotypical hoon cars...all you seem to see are "ordinary" cars, and some very ratty ones amongst them. Maybe that means that the average Plod can indeed tell the difference between "hoon" and "car enthusiast who obviously cares about his car"...

[xxxc]

a repeat offender who was caught either driving an unregistered or uninsured vehicle, driving whilst unlicensed or disqualified, drink driving

^^^^^

those are not Hoon offences and dont see why you would impound a car for that.
however if someone is speeding ,doing burnouts ,drifting etc then yeah maybe impound their car then.
most of you will disagree but each to their own

[EDManual]

Originally Posted by xxxc

a repeat offender who was caught either driving an unregistered or uninsured vehicle, driving whilst unlicensed or disqualified, drink driving

^^^^^

those are not Hoon offences and dont see why you would impound a car for that.
however if someone is speeding ,doing burnouts ,drifting etc then yeah maybe impound their car then.
most of you will disagree but each to their own

I disagree :-) in that they should impound their cars, but agree its not hooning.

[SSD-85]

Do you expect anything less from mainstream media...? Dont let the truth get in the way of a good story...

[raised by monkeys]

I had to sell my EF cause it pulled too much attention from the five-o. Apparently it was too dangerous to have on the road with a full tank cause it made it 10mm too low (it had all brand new suspension) and i was classed as a hoon cause it was always shiny, nice wheels and plenty of custom work. Cant count the amount of times it went over the pit whilst rusty Vdub bugs with failing brakes and old barina's raised hell on the roads with safety issues.

But quick, get the low falcon off the road!

[Tysonv48]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Yes well, perhaps I'm taking it the wrong way...it's probably actually a good thing that whenever they show either confiscated cars or an auction of "hoon cars", you never seem to see what I called stereotypical hoon cars...all you seem to see are "ordinary" cars, and some very ratty ones amongst them. Maybe that means that the average Plod can indeed tell the difference between "hoon" and "car enthusiast who obviously cares about his car"...

It would be good but shows like a currant affair place hoon cars as hotted up cars and resto instead of focusing on the run of the mill vn commodore that ends up wrapped around a pole

[rancidpunx]

South Australia had a similar outcome a while ago. The powers that be were confused as to why the only cars that were impounded were pieces of ****.