QLD hooning laws

[john.twidale]

At our club meeting tonight we were asdvised of proposed hooning laws to be considered possibly as soon as Feb.
Though I'm not sure that all the rumors we heard are true, it sounds as if they are proposing similar laws to Vic. where I understand it's possible to have your car confiscated and crushed after only 1 incident with no right of appeal and it doesn't even have to be you that was driving the car.
We have heard that a ferrari owner had his $200 k car crushed because his mechanic did the wrong thing in it on a test drive.
We had a club member tell us he had recently been given a $330 fine for squeeling the tyres as he crossed white painted lines while turning, and the ticket actually stated that the incident was unintentional. The word is that at the disgression of the officer you can be booked for accelerating too fast, spinning the wheels or not.

The first issue is that these laws go no where towards stopping the trouble makers, the second is that judgement of the infringement is at individual officers disgression, and there is no clear definition of things such as "accelerating too fast" , and the most worring of all is that your right of appeal has been taken away.

If these sort of laws are on the table, their usual trick is to present them on the last day of sitting, at midnight when most are asleep or zoned out anyway and they all just go along so they can knock off.

If you value your car, I strongly suggest you get in touch with your local member and ask him/her to confirm that this is the case, make sure he/she has a good understanding of the actual proposal, and its consequences, and instruct them on your behalf to ensure groups such as reputible car clubs are involved in any discussions, which must take place before the laws are submitted.
REMEMBER this is proposed supposedly for FEB.

Get the word out to every one you can and have them contact their local member, because the only thing that frightens these people is large numbers, faxes, emails, requests for personal appointments.
If I'm wrong and it's all a storm in a tea cup, we've lost nothing, but if it's fair dink, we have everything to gain.

None of us condones out of control hoons with no regard for safety, property, or peace in our homes, but any proposal must actually address the problem and not innocent road users.
I'm off now to look up the Govt web site and see for my self

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