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Fixing Ford's **** ups
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Yes, it's a public forum that other members of the public are saying what I did was a load of hog wash or I shouldn't have done it. Fact is I did do it, my mate survived as a result of it. I was escorted to proper medical help without any reprisals from the law. Members of this public forum can call me all the names under the sun about it all, but If the situation ever arose again, I'd do it again and wouldn't care what happen to me or if my car was confiscated and crushed as a result of it. Plain and simple
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Was born with blue blood
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Perth
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My 2 cents worth...
If my wife and kids were killed by someone who ran a red light or stop sign or speeding, irrespective of the reason... the law would be the last of their worries.
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Was born with blue blood
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Exactly Wally,
Improvements in tyres, suspension, vehicle dynamics,ABS and stability control. Responsible for 80% IMO
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Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Loving the Endorphine Machine
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In my experience, in my profession, the road laws have contributed to less deaths. The average speed of crashes has lowered and that reduces the trauma on the occupants. But that is also "IMO". Now before you jump on me and say I want everyone to travel at 10km/h and live to 100, give me a break, that is not what I want. I love my performance car just as much as everyone else here, that is why I buy them, I just have a very great respect for road safety too.
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335 - STILL THE BOSS ...
Join Date: Dec 2004
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1: Police do have a right in specific circumstances to make a judgment and they are then held accountable. 2: There is NO law to say you can drive unlicensed, unregistered or over the speed limit .... at anytime .... what so ever. That sums it up So now just drop it please ..... this has gone so far off topic and really has nothing to do with the topic from the OP. | [/url] |
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Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
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Back on topic
Personally I think, crush their cars for repeat offenders, or sell them and put the funds back into road safety, driver education whatever. I don't care because it has no effect on me. The only people that have reason to care what the penalty is are the hoons. By the way, don't put them in prison, we have to pay to keep them then, more tax drain for us and 3 meals a day, tv, roof over their head and no bills for them.
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Fixing Ford's **** ups
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Some don't grasp the english language to well. I said they CAN, not they DID. My head hurts from the brick wall it's meeting. Nexttime, I'll be sure to have the video camera and post the link from you tube. Then the misconceptions can be stopped right there and then. I agree, end of story. Time to move forward |
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Ich bin ein auslander
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Fixing Ford's **** ups
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Personally I don't agree with crushing offenders cars. Ask people that are building older cars (not just Fords) how hard it is to find parts at the moment. Start crushing them and finding parts is going to be near impossible. Sell them for sure, but don't crush them.
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Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
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Personally I agree with you, selling them is a better option. I just would prefer to see the funds go back into driver education or road safety, not politician junkets.
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Join Date: May 2009
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speeding teens do cause accidents and do die..but so do old people who have slow reflexes/confused about the road rules/affected by prescription meds..so do everyday good drivers who push themselves too hard and fall asleep behind the wheel/have a lapse in attention/etc etc..then there are those who are affected by drugs, by alcohol, by poor visability, by poor and unsafe road conditions, by poor weather, by unroadworthy vehicles etc etc..drunks fall asleep in the middle of the road and get run over, kids run out from behind buses and get hit, drivers usually doing nothing wrong but they all contribute to the road toll.. experienced drivers get lazy and complacent..roads deteriorate..less police on the road, more revenue raising technology..it all contributes..teens are the easy target.. |
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335 - STILL THE BOSS ...
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melb East
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Taking peoples cars and crushing them? Not the answer either .... don't know what is really and unfortunately neither do the powers that be. 'Seem' to look like you are doing something than really getting to the nitty gritty is the order of the day. | [/url] |
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Once PHASED.
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Townsville
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We have an auction in Townsville today for Hoon 3rd time repeat offenders.
Up for auction are 18 impounded cars. a couple of Fords and Holdens but mostly rice burners. LOL. I suppose you could say "Abuse the pedal, lose the metal".
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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wow, the 'horror weekend'... im pretty sure nearly all or all of those deaths were NOT caused by speeding or hooning but by p platers just generally being cruddy drivers, for example when the 2 holdens crashed its because one car didnt look when pulling onto a road
driving tests need to encompass more abilities. we are taught how to pass the driving test but not how to drive (im lucky my parents wanted to spend the time giving me a range of experience), no matter how impracticle it is, the driving tests needs to be longer and cover much much more. think of the accidents that would prevent, not just the ones we hear about with death involved but p platers that cant drive cause accidents all the time everywhere
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Fixing Ford's **** ups
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How can you say too fast to stop or avoid a collision if someone pulls out in front of you? If you're 10 feet away from a corner, doing your 50K and some dildo drives straight out of a side road, you've got no hope. From you're wording, you've got to putt around at 10 K an hour, be on the picks near every corner and hope to hell no one is round you. I've been driving an 8 tonne truck at 80 KPH (90 KPH speed limit) in the country and had an idiot drive straight out of a side road into my left front wheel. Perfect fine day, no sun as a factor, no wet roads. So, judging from your comments, I'm driving too fast to aviod the collision. I think you'd better re-phrase things |
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FPV F6X
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: WA
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how bout for speeding fines if your doing say ten k's over or more they lock you up for a hour for every kilometre you are over the said limit watch how many people drive at the correct speed then
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pistol
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Do you guys remember how and why the hoon laws came in, yes it was those in their rice burners and of corse other inmature wanna be races caught at a Noble park intersection and when the cops came they smashed up the vidio shop and raided it so where are they now gone missing hiding who know's this sort of behavior gave drag racing a bad name the cops and the media call it drag racing well let me tell you drag racing stop's after 400 meter's . In the late 70's we used to gather in Dandenong known as the Dandy drags at least we would all park and gather round and admire other cars if we were to race we would race on princess hwy from 1st gear through to 3rd gear and that was it or set up in a indusrial area have a couple of runs and go back to the town centre and park again , but today these guy's don't know when to stop they are into speed flat out to much vidio games i say
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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Well the government has acted.....in their usual way.
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B-Series Powered!
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Northern Suburbs - Melbourne
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I say sell the 3rd time car taken hoon drivers cars and sell them as opposed to crushing and use the money raised to force new drivers to take driving courses. It'd lower the road toll amongst younger drivers for sure.
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