Queensland Police support Hooning!

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Queensland Police Support Illegal Hooning

Queensland Police supporting illegal hooning is the only conclusion I can draw from the stupid actions of Queensland Police yesterday.

Leaving a well planned and well managed event at Powercruise yesterday Queensland Police were waiting with the following:

-Breath testing - What a stroke of Genius for an alcohol free event!

-Drug testing - another stroke of genius, car guys can’t afford drugs too poor from paying the rego fees & car part prices!

-Radar guns - Honestly that's why I was on the track to get it out of my system I drove like a baby home pretty much everyone overtaking me!

-Defect vehicle stations - Absolutely unbloody believable, guys doing the right thing and using their cars legally at a properly organised are directly targeted by the Police, the message I got was don’t go and do it legally you are better off taking a risk on the street.

Don’t get me wrong, I generally support the police but in this whoever decided to target Power cruise was a d!@khe@d and is sending a very bad message to the car enthusiast industry.

Nor do I condone unsafe modified cars, but geez guys a time and a place, it should be illegal street stuff you are targeting not guys doing the right thing.

If I sound like I’m ****ed off then you are right, I’m not a young driver and honestly I'd absolutely hate to grow up with the current bull s*@t young kids have to deal with, the fact kids can make it through the adolescent risk taking period with the nanny government not giving them and outlet anywhere its a wonder they all aren't drunk or on drugs.

Well I for one am bloody sick of it you haven't already picked up on my tone, and will be writing to the Police Minister to Complain.

Car enthusiasts are a soft target!

Fact: in 2002 the road toll was 322 people in QLD (8.7 fatalities per 100,000)

Fact in 2009 the road toll was 331 people in QLD, (7.51 fatalities per 100,000)

Fact: in 8 years of hoon laws 20,336 cars have been impounded! and for what gain?

Illegally modified vehicles are nothing like the issue they are being made out to be, this is just an easy vote winner for government and I for one am sick of being a soft target and feeling guilty for driving a modified vehicle, seems to be every time I pick up a paper there’s another anti hoon article.

Top 10 ACTUAL causes for fatal crashes per 2002 report:
1. Inattention
2. Inexperience
3. Alcohol related
4. Illegal Manouvre
5. Failure to stop/give way
6. Fatigue
7. Speed
8. Age of drive
9. Weather conditions
10. Road Conditions

Guess what? nothing in the report about modified vehicle issues yet this is the same year anti hoon legislation was introduced.

In the 2009 Queensland Road toll review guess what the major cause of occupant fatalities was? RESTRAINT USE! this could be determined for 151 vehicle occupant fatalities, that's HALF the road toll! Of the 151 who died 43 weren't even wearing a seat belt.

Come on guys get real start addressing the real issues & start saving lives.

I don’t see Police waiting outside a school to screen everybody coming in case there’s a pedophile in there?, but yet we accept them doing this to us waiting outside car events looking for irresponsible drivers “Hoons”

Well bugger it I've had enough, there must be tens of thousands of car enthusiast's, related businesses and organisations etc if anyone else agrees with me can I suggest you write or email to the Queensland Minister for Police to promote the Car industry as a legitimate hobby and not a soft target for Police to cover the fact they can’t reduce the road toll despite much safer cars now and better roads!

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone, and unless you have a Concourse car, are you sure that wheel/tyre combo/rating is per the tyre placard and that aftermarket steering wheel is ADR compliant?

This is what I will be emailing to the Police Minister & Premier, fell free to copy/paste or modify as you wish, you may think this won’t happen to you and bugger the Hoons but I believe we are all being tared with the same brush whether it be a $85,000 Mustang or an old Commodore in primer, despite both of these of these probably being slower than a sports Camry!

Anyone with a Boost cruising forum account or similar other Forums these were the guys most affected so feel fee to copy & paste to post on these as well.


The Hon Neil Roberts MP, Minister for Police, Corrective Services and Emergency Services; I wish to complain of the use of Police resources to target lawful car events for no measurable gain, specifically the use of extensive Police resources to target vehicles leaving Power cruise on Sunday the 29/08/2010.

This sends the WRONG message to people attending legal car events, now rather than lawfully using these events it seems its better to run the risk on the street with Police targeting those trying to do the right thing at correctly organised events rather than addressing the real road safety issues.

The impounding of 20,000+ vehicles over the past 8 years utilising anti hoon legislation has not decreased the road toll from 2002 levels

The aftermarket car industry is a substantial employer in Queensland and I would request the Queensland Government support the aftermarket car industry and organised events such as Powercruise rather than simply seeing these as a soft target for Police action to cover the fact of an unchanging road toll which has nothing to do with the car enthusiasts.


police@ministerial.qld.gov.au

thepremier@premiers.qld.gov.au