Commodore SS 'Hooning' car filmed in gender reveal destroyed on steps of Queensland parliament

[fgpsi]

A car used for "hooning" at a gender reveal party has been destroyed at the steps of Queensland's Parliament House.

Police released dash-camera footage of the red Holden Commodore VP doing a burnout on a street in Marsden, south of Brisbane, in September last year, and appealed to the public for information.

The burnout sent up a thick plume of blue smoke into the air.

Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Ben Marcus said the driver of the car had put blue-coloured tyres on the vehicle to reveal the gender of a baby.

"The burnout was so significant that you couldn't see the road in any direction for about 100 metres," Assistant Commissioner Marcus said outside parliament on Wednesday.

"That driver was jailed. The vehicle was confiscated and today we are going to cut it up in front of you."

Police Minister Mark Ryan said along with the prison sentence, the driver was also disqualified from driving for four years "for committing a life-endangering offence with his car".

Firefighters dismantled the vehicle to mark the introduction of new anti-hooning laws.
The demonstration of the car's dismantling was part of the government's reveal of new dangerous driving laws.

The new legislation means any motorist who is found guilty of hooning-related offences could have their car destroyed.

Mr Ryan said the new legislation would extend to "willing participants" and organisers of hooning activities and events.

"A willing participant in the hooning activity or an organiser of the event, and that will be punishable by up to 40 penalty units, which is almost $6,000 or up to one year in prison," the police minister said.

Someone in possession of items with the intention to be used at assist a hooning event, such as fake number plates, hydraulic jacks, and spare wheels, could also face punishment.

"That offence will carry with it and up to one-year imprisonment for up to 40 penalty units," he said.

Mr Ryan said the new laws were designed to keep the community safe.

"Those people who intentionally endanger their lives, the lives of their passengers and other road users by choosing to engage in illegal, stupid behaviour," he said.

Police said despite fewer people hooning, some offenders are going to "great lengths" to avoid being caught.

"The legislation that we have asked our government for will greatly assist us with the people that do everything they can to avoid being caught in their endeavours," Assistant Commissioner Marcus said.

Confiscated cars will be repurposed

Assistant Commissioner Marcus said cars confiscated by police would be used to help train firefighters.

He said the car that was dismantled was "a desirable car if you are in the hooning community but it is a type of car that if we were to simply sell it to recover the towing fees, [it] would simply be bought by another person to be used for hooning activities".

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner Greg Leach said the cars would help familiarise firefighters with different types of vehicles.

"Firefighters attend thousands of road crash incidents each year, with many of those requiring the use of specialist cutting equipment to free people," he said.

"While firefighters expand their knowledge with every incident they attend, our crews would much rather practise their skills on a vehicle in a simulated and controlled scenario than on the road in real life."

article + video:
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101716290

[Wretched]

Bogans being bogans. A fitting end.

[blueoval]

Originally Posted by Wretched

Bogans being bogans. A fitting end.

reproducing bogans. How classy :P

[T3rminator]

Can the owner claim insurance?

[Bossxr8]

Love the over dramatic screeching from the article. "life endangering offence". GTFO.

It's dumb no doubt though. Gender reveals should result in a longer jail term than a burnout. Stupid bogan behaviour.

[fgpsi]

I wonder if they would do it to a Phase III that got busted doing a little burnout

[Citroënbender]

Yes they absolutely would, some of the real bogans are prefixed by “The Honourable Member”.

It’s no different to destroying artworks because their creator was a bad person in other domains. Or blowing up sacred sites for minerals to whore.

[Franco Cozzo]

Oh my, don't they get upset and rather petty when someone takes the **** out of people with a prefix of 'honourable' before their name?

This reminds me of the US Military destroying Uday Hussein's Lamborghini LM002

QLD Police has their knickers in a knot about 'hoons' because 'Mexican Hoon Cartel' has been evading them for years and taking the **** out of the 'honourable' brigade during their election campaigns.

Someone in possession of items with the intention to be used at assist a hooning event, such as fake number plates, hydraulic jacks, and spare wheels, could also face punishment.

Gee, this absolutely isn't going to be abused at all is it?

Oh my is that a spare wheel and a bottle jack you are carrying?

Thats how they usually wrap this stuff up is under 'community safety' - was in court earlier this year charged with hoon offences, all of us up on driving offences got harsher penalties and fines than a drug dealer caught with zip lock bags, cocaine, large amount of cash and scales as well as someone who beat his ex wife up who had an AVO out on him who had a prior history and a charge sheet as long as my forearm.

The magistrate was alright about it but mandatory sentencing saw me draw the short straw - took a diversion off the table for me.

Oh and the magistrate also threw out an attempt at an AVO against someone sexually assaulting his children who even had proof of it - absolute clown world.

Be careful about ripping skids for your gender reveal party

[Sprintey]

A blue burnout for a boy? That's gold.

We have some very bogan relatives, when the bride & groom were leaving, this HQ Coupe gave forth the meanest burnout I've seen in front of a church. It's resulted in love and marital bliss, and children. Have a look at the start of the movie "Idiocracy" - is it the smart people or the bogans who pass on their genes in greater numbers?

The bride once told me, "It's easier to be happy when you're a bogan in Australia," and there's some truth in it (she has 1000hp VF ute) - you don't get caught up in the self-hate and the deep psychological inadequacy that seem to permeate those desperate to be not seen as bogans here. There shouldn't be a cultural cringe, but there is. She is smart because she earns, gets ahead, has fun and doesn't care one bit what others think.

I can see that this is one of the best countries on earth in terms of opportunities for "normal" people.

[T3rminator]

Originally Posted by Sprintey

The bride once told me, "It's easier to be happy when you're a bogan in Australia," and there's some truth in it (she has 1000hp VF ute) - you don't get caught up in the self-hate and the deep psychological inadequacy that seem to permeate those desperate to be not seen as bogans here. There shouldn't be a cultural cringe, but there is. She is smart because she earns, gets ahead, has fun and doesn't care one bit what others think.

Thank you, you've made my night.....as I'm about to hop into my BA Falcon with my staffie riding shot gun.

[Sprintey]

Respect.

[Wretched]

Originally Posted by T3rminator

Can the owner claim insurance?

LoL - that would assume they had it.

[Mulva]

My eyes are old but that looks to be a VN, not VP, and if it is actually an SS then they are full of **** saying selling it to recover towing fees would see just another bogan get it for hooning...genuine VN SS is now a desirable car fetching $30k+ in the right condition (particularly in Atlas grey with power pack).

[fgpsi]

Originally Posted by Mulva

My eyes are old but that looks to be a VN, not VP, and if it is actually an SS then they are full of **** saying selling it to recover towing fees would see just another bogan get it for hooning...genuine VN SS is now a desirable car fetching $30k+ in the right condition (particularly in Atlas grey with power pack).

It's a genuine VN SS. Saw some lady on twitter say good because it was a sh*t box that is only worth $500 anyway

Where can I get a VN SS for $500 ? Have cash on me now

[Franco Cozzo]

Punishment needs to fit the crime and I don't think that what happened is fair or just - I'm assuming that its his first offence,

They've basically taken away the breadwinner of this new/young family and put him in prison, fined him a couple thousand bucks and then destroyed his property worth $30K+

All for ripping skids that someone caught on dash cam - its like they decided to make an example out of this bloke which is pretty horrid I reckon.

Sure he did the wrong thing but its not exactly 'fair and just', punishment way exceeds what he actually did.

Sure if he accidentally killed someone, but for the sake of ripping skids, making a bit of smoke and noise? Guy would have got less for rape.

[Falcon SXR8]

Can't have been the blokes first offence surely. Jail time, fine and wrecked car for a burnout, come on.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Falcon SXR8

Can't have been the blokes first offence surely. Jail time, fine and wrecked car for a burnout, come on.

Well, they've put it on the table with that legislation, I know from experience they come down harder on driving offences here in VIC than stuff like assaults, family violence and low level drug dealing, saw it with my own eyes

We're either missing half the story here or they've just come down like a tonne of bricks up there.

One of my friends up there ended up in court for a drug driving accident and she got a 3 month suspended licence and a $350 fine, this bloke basically copped a $30,000+ hit and is in prison.

[Bolly47]

Queensland the backward state

[ford71V8]

[Franco Cozzo]

I spoke to a couple of people who have zero interest in cars and they reckon this bloke got off lightly for what he did, one of the terms used was burnouts are 'violent-adjacent' so its on a similar level to violent crimes, plus the noise pollution and emissions from the burnouts make it worthy of a jail sentence

Interestingly they're on the far left of the political spectrum, the kind of people who are happy to punch down on people they think are bogans, or political opponents.

[Citroënbender]

Unsurprising, in a way. If people stuck to burnouts in either remote/industrial locations or in front of their own house, the only loser would be tyres.

If you feel like more freedom than Australia allows these days, here’s one example of what you can get for only $1M AUD:
https://www.property24.com/for-sale/...7785/109420955

[Ben73]

Governments: we have to bring in a lot of rules, regulations and taxes to protect our environment from harm. We are down sizing all household wheelie bins to 50L to save the world.

Also Governments: lol let’s turn this perfectly serviceable car into landfill to make the owner sad lol get rekt

I’m not a fan of people who drive dangerously on public roads, but destroying working cars as a punishment is stupid.
How many other crimes have a $40,000 fine?

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Ben73

…How many other crimes have a $40,000 fine?

Precisely the point Franco was making. The combination of mandated punishments and half-cocked judgements has got us here. And why I find myself sometimes questioning what part of Australia I still feel any loyalty to.

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

I spoke to a couple of people who have zero interest in cars and they reckon this bloke got off lightly for what he did, one of the terms used was burnouts are 'violent-adjacent' so its on a similar level to violent crimes, plus the noise pollution and emissions from the burnouts make it worthy of a jail sentence

Interestingly they're on the far left of the political spectrum, the kind of people who are happy to punch down on people they think are bogans, or political opponents.

As soon as you know they are far left you just walk away. Seriously the lowest, most miserable people on the planet.

[fgpsi]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Unsurprising, in a way. If people stuck to burnouts in either remote/industrial locations or in front of their own house, the only loser would be tyres.

If you feel like more freedom than Australia allows these days, here’s one example of what you can get for only $1M AUD:
https://www.property24.com/for-sale/...7785/109420955

Jesus christ. and we have houses in the crappy melbourne burbs fetching as much as this

[T3rminator]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

And why I find myself sometimes questioning what part of Australia I still feel any loyalty to.

Thats pretty heavy stuff Citro.

I didn't realise how many regulations we had here and how harsh the penalties were until I spent time out of the system. But its not always doom and gloom, one could argue that it is these same regulations and penalties that allows us to live with relative freedom, freedom to use the roads without undue risk.

The video seems pretty innocuous and the penalty extremely harsh, but I'm going to guess its not the first time, and the neighbours had enough gripe to call the cops to catch them in the act.

Originally Posted by fgpsi

Jesus christ. and we have houses in the crappy melbourne burbs fetching as much as this

Richmond vs South Africa? hmmmmm that's a hard one....

[Sprintey]

I've had a sleep on it, and have risen more angry at them and the laws there than before. What they have destroyed is Australian motoring history. The VN SS is a significant car.

So the guy was a nupty with it, in his moment of celebration at his new son. It's nothing on what the Mexican Hoon Cartel have got away with in an old BF XT wagon - which is a far less significant car than a VN SS. Catch the Mexican Hoon cartel if you can, impound their BF. You should have impounded this bloke's car, kept it for a considerable while, but saved the car.

You've destroyed motoring history, and enthusiasts everywhere should be readying their pitchforks. You wanna inspire my sense of 'sans culottes'??

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by T3rminator

freedom to use the roads without undue risk.

The likelihood of harm actually taking place with what he did and the punishment received is the problem here.

Mind you the UK has been putting people in prison for posting memes and 'offending' people so on the scale of punishments maybe QLD wasn't so heavy handed as the cucks up there, must be the lack of taste in their food

If it was me I'd be like, 30 days impound, 6 months volunteering in road trauma unit every weekend and you have to drive a pink Mazda 121 with frangipani stickers and pink seat covers for 6 months thats auto.

[Vesper Martini]

Originally Posted by fgpsi

Jesus christ. and we have houses in the crappy melbourne burbs fetching as much as this

Yes but we don't have Brutal farm attacks

https://opera.news/za/en/society/amp...5566b703c675a2

I have friends that have moved here and walked away from their farm unable to sell it.

let alone if the Government just wants to take your land

[T3rminator]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

The likelihood of harm actually taking place with what he did and the punishment received is the problem here.

If we assume it was a first offence, I'd agree, but we haven't been given the full story. I can't see the car being crushed on a first offence, happy to be proven wrong.

I'm trying to find what the laws are in Vic to have your car crushed, but can't seem to find a clear and concise set of rules.

Likelihood of harm vs severity of punishment is an interesting debate.

A drunk person driving home at 4am through the back streets is probably less likely to do harm than if he/she was to drive home at 2pm on a school run through suburban roads. So argument there is the punishment should be different. You could be right, but you'll never find anyone arguing for the driver at 4am to have a lighter sentence.

Another example...speeding on an overtaking lane in whoop whoop vs speeding on a suburban road...but lets not go there...