Such is the perception that the media, government, police and every other fucking twat would have us believe, after reading numerous reports about traffic incidents, there would be a little over 10% that I would say relate directly to the crowd I call "hoons" yet no more are people called people, offenders, no, everyone that is not a police officer, or a minister being driven around, or an uptight self riotous member of public is now, a HOON. Which means, at any given time from sitting in peak hour traffic, to obeying the speed limit, any modified car owner is now the most deadly threat to humanity, (drugs, murder and "actual" crime was so 2007) and because we pose such a threat to the very existence of our fellow countrymen, every stop must be pulled out to make sure we cannot enjoy our passion.
An example I would like to sight, (and it is very much an example)
I was driving the speed limit (actually 10 k's below cause my car chew's the juice at 110km/h) and a tradey van came up in the right lane, would have passed me at 150+km/h. Now, if per say he slowed it down, and there was a police car that sighted us both, one car doing 10 below the speed limit, and if the other car slowed it down to 120 or so, who do you think is the bigger threat? In my crazy opinion, I would think it would be the guy that is speeding, but in the perception of the police, public and media, hoons do not commute in tradey vans, they drive modified cars, and regardless of what you are doing, you are doing wrong. In saying that, I believe that I would be the one that gets pulled over, as my car is low and gives off the presumption that it is a hoon car, hence, it is as good as a loaded pistol to someones head.
A hoon is someone that would be breaking the law, not a fucking passionate car lover that obeys all of the street laws as they should, I used to believe that if you do no wrong, then you will be right, this is not the case anymore, no matter what the car loving population of Australia does, as long as there is a minute minority (that drives stock as a rock family commuters) we are all guilty. For what though, for loving my car, fuck that, I have poured my heart and soul into cars since I was 17, my dad and I built my first one, and I have constructively (wasted) countless dollars on them since, they are a part of my life, I express myself through how they look, and by implementing laws that prevent us from doing just that, well they may as well start telling us what to say.
The image that has been pinned on the car community is one of fear and constant wrongdoing, but why? from the actions of young kids in cars that most of the time aren't highly powered massively modified cars? how does that work, its like blaming a fucking dolphin when a shark eats someone off the shore, just cause they look similar from the chopper doesn't mean they are the same! Give anyone an underpowered economical car, and they will be able to do 160 on a 40km/h street, or wrap it around a pole, any amount of modifications (or lack of) can't stop someones over enthusiastic right foot. Education will help prevent this, but when the enforcers of these laws get the blinkers applied to their own head through ignorance, how the fuck would anyone be able to educate people, it is easier to drive home scare tactics and penalise people that don't deserve it, rather than tackle the real problem, real under the rug tactics. Well done Australian government and police force, your doing a great job, I don't feel any safer in the city, and now I shit myself driving my car, cause apparently I am the risk!
I salute you.
