So this is a bit of a whinge, but i got my first taste of the western australian hoon laws toady.

So in july i drove my super bug over here from Qld. It has a mild 1915 with a fat boy exhaust and sounds pretty good if i do say so. Today i was in the driving mood and went to the shops and i was putting my foot into it in first and second.

On my way home i took off from a set of lights normally but to change into second i gave it a good boot to see if i could loose any traction and then slowed and turned into my driveway.

As i turned in i thought there was some drug raid near my house because i heard a sirens and screeching tyres behind me but to my oh sh@#t kind of sigh it was the HIGHWAY PATROL.

They went all over, under, on top of and inside my car. This did worry me, not the first time it has happened to me but you pretty much know when they do that, that they want to give you some kind of "infringement". I had Qld plates on, i didn t have my rego sticker on and i haven t changed my Qld license over yet. But they did yellow sticker the car because of oil leaks, noise and no passenger mirror.

When i told them that rego runs out in 20 days and have to go over the pits anyway and asked them to have grace, they told me no and that they could tow my car if they wanted! I asked them how i was supposed to know of WA'S hoon laws and he said that because you are driving on WA roads you are meant to know everything about the laws. Wow.

But there was more conversing but all in all, i could of come off much worse and yes i was being a mild hoon but definitely nothing dangerous or public nuisancish.

If only motor sport wasn t so expensive.

just a tip, the law was changed a couple of months ago with regard to mirrors internal and external, your cop was keen.
i'm guessing your bug never had a factory mirror fitted, if so its exempt from inspection PROVIDED the center internal rear view mirror is totally unobstructed. if you had a smashed or broken L/H mirror you are shafted!
Theres a shit load of hooning here, its good to know the cops are trying to do something, its also very disturbing people are having cars impounded that have not been hooning.

You should go and buy a lottery ticket. When you win, fix your car so that they can find nothing wrong, and you won't have a thing to worry about.

oh the wisdom of the aged

system very injust, 3 wheelies n u out or car gets impounded, drink driving hit and kill u get u car back later. lawmakers are senseless it carries thru into nearly any type of infringement /crime.

Its all about them making money, not about the sense of the laws they make up.

well thats what i said vlad, but the cop reckons they loose about 2 million a year out the hewn laws. Because of the cars that get confiscated then have to be sold and what not.

But that doesn tmake sense to me.

YIKES..

Highway patrol Police have so many laws they can get anyone
these days...

not locking Your car when You pay for fuel..
or leaving the windows down..

I thought driving in a manner dangerous to the public
could be made to get just about anyone...

YIKES...
still having QLD plates and Licence...

Now that is punishable by death in NSW ....

after 14 days....

LEE

well early 60s and before....

most cars did NOT have one outside mirror...

much less two... [optional extras...]

Lee

i drive my street race bug everyday to work.no interior "i wear earplugs",4 point harness,loud straight through muffler...but i usualy drive carefuly...and am always on the lookout.....

looks like u ran into some power tripping pigs.....

no passenger mirror,,pppffff.it never came out with one....

in regards to hooning here,we have a filthy rich government and so much land they could build a purpose built track and run street car nights to try and get the hoons off the roads,well at least get some hooning out of their system.

ramble ramble... edit to remove inappropriate language barls

I'll tell you a funny story.. I was driving to work in a VE commodore SV6. I stopped for fuel and was pulling back on to the main road (west swan rd) stopped waiting for a turn. a gap came and I moved off, as i started I felt that I was on loose gravel on the edge of the road and backed of a little as to not spin the wheels. this made my gap not as large as I would have liked. So once on the road I gased it a little, remember this is only a V6 with traction control and it was only to 60 kmh.... and yep I got pulled over and given one hell of a talking to so I stated that I would talk to all the people around and get their details and have our day is court. I thnk this worked and was the only thing stopping me from gettting a fine.

realy,i had thought with all this mining that they would be on top of the moon..maybe too much gets wasted or they put too much in their pay packets...anyways....

The law states you have to properly secure your vehicle when not attended. Some funny cop tried to give me a ticket for my buggy.... As for the hoon laws.....good on them!! I see idiots every night doing stupid things that could cause harm to others.

So are you meant to take your children inside with you when paying for fuel? I would think the law says yes. However the difficulty in getting two children under 2 years old out of the car and taken inside to pay for fuel is pretty difficult, and I am sure there would be circumstances that are harder.

Whatever happened to driveway service?

I was a bowser boy back in the 80's. Fill the car, then ask if they wanted the oil checked, windscreen wiped, and washer bottle filled. Some asked for the tyres checked too.

They don't do driveway service due to the high cancer risk to their workers.

Cancer risk?, I thought it was just the added cost of the labour for driveway service.

poor mr policeman. got nothing better to do.
broke traction and noise came from your arse....................................................end
give me a break.
get the people who are hesitant in driving they're cars and piss people off driving sssslllllllooooooowwwwwww
and dont know what to do when a rounda bout hits them.
can we turn the clock back 25 - 30 years.
we all know why cars have accidents these days. f@#$%h&^l
we must all be hoons then, every single one of us.

I'm pretty sure once your on property the cops are not able come on your land unless you have committed a crime ,which a traffic infringement is not.
A friend of mine did a burnout out the front of his house and a cop pulled up behind him.When he saw them he drove up his driveway and got out ,the cop said if he got out on the street he would have confiscated his car but cos he drove onto his property he couldn't do anything.

Hmmm, maybe, just maybe, your friend will be a marked man after that, just maybe.

so if you have a ride on mower and your kid is 15 and without a license doing the lawn he is what ?
still a vehicle. what a feed.
puncy f@#$%n law makers.
these guys aren't born with common sense, .............are they..........................get REAL

what is this country coming to.
cant teach the kid to drive a vehicle on the farm then HEY

Hoon.....man that was a word I had no cue about.
Since am a Yank, I had no cultural context in which to have knowledge of its meaning.
I also had no cultural reference about what "pom" meant until I joined up here.
You Aussies regularly stump me when it comes to words.
Very entertaining.

Regards to all,
Steve
Indiana, USA

It's fun playing Stump the Yank.....so easy. Yanky friends had this book of Aussie Slang. We spent many long evenings drinking Bundy and hav'n a cack over that book. So much of it was everyday lingo that they had no idea what you were saying. Good Times

I actually was wondering what would have happened if just said nothing and continued on inside and didn t come out. Im guessing i would have soon seen a tow truck in my driveway.

But for me i, I love cars, I love driving and i feel you can t do anything over here if you have a slightly modified car without attracting a lot of attention.

If only there was someway we could protest this injustice?????