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[DanWA]

If you dont like what goes on don't go, it's your choice. I just dont agree with banning alcohol for the 99% of people who do the right thing. I am sure it is a family event but that doesn't mean certain age groups are not allowed does it. Fact is organizers just need to get tougher on these people so it doesn't ruin it for the rest of us.

You hit the nail on the head with this.

I have a good old laugh at people calling for Summernats to be alcohol free, its where a LARGE portion of the money is made and that money makes the event.

If you don't like it don't go, no one will care if you don't go.

[REDA9X]

I'll never go to another Summernats. We used to go regulary in my mates injected HJ ute. I remember the first time we turned up because throwing an injected 5litre into an older car was only new and his was one of the first in the country.
The last few years we went it amazed me you were not allowed to take alcohol in, but you could buy it there in glass bottles and cans. Being the hotest part of the year the beer tent had a line a mile long.
The last few years it started to become a joke, there had been a riot there one year in the early 90's and Northbourne Avenue was trashed.
Several times when we drove from one spot to the next, people would just jump in the back of the ute and expect a lift, they didn't give a shit about scratching your car or leaving empty beer bottles and other crap in the back. Other times they would surround the car and throw water on the ground and expect you to do a burnout. The security guards would look on helpless, and if you refused, the crowd would throw bottles at your car. It was a regular thing to see women abused for not getting their tits out and boyfriends bashed for defending them.
The last year we went the cops and the RTA had a massive blitz on any car that looked like it was going to the Nats. We were pulled up and taken to Merullan to be inspected. They found a few little things wrong with the car and gave us 21 days to fix it and sent us on our way. Others were turning up and arguing and having their cars taken off the road because they simply couldn't shut up and the inspectors looked even harder.
I remember one of the guys who had a car in the top 10 writing a letter to the organisers after having his car damaged and family terrorised while the security simply looked on.
Then came the final straw for me when one of the guys I worked with who was twice Street Machine of the Year winner, Ed Brodie, coming into work and saying some idiot threw a bottle at his car simply because it was a Holden. While security stood there and watched on, Ed walked up to the bloke and knocked him out. We decided that was the last time we would attend.
After Brads comment, it looks like nothing has changed which is unfortunate because it's not the car enthusiasts that cause the problems, it's the drunken idiots.

[Ice]

Gee guys and i wanted to go next year maybe i might give it a miss otherwise i can see myself getting into punch ups with pissed idiots
oh well there is always torana fest only a couple of pissheads to deal with there lol

[Ice]

Now i know why everybody thinks your a frOckwit torbirdie

[Mort]

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Edited by Mort, 06 January 2013 - 09:50 PM.

[Ice]

Hey cruiza last time i checked vl commodore came out in 86 87 88 not late seventies

[REDA9X]

Hey cruiza last time i checked vl commodore came out in 86 87 88 not late seventies

The VB came out in 78, the VL was just an evolution of that.

[Pop's-SS]

No skid marks by the 4WD ....... duh

As previous said .... mobile phone or just not looking where he was going,

Neg driving charge at the very least

Feel sorry for the VL owner as it looked a very nice car

Barry

[orangeLJ]

I used to be a big poo-pooer of summernats, grew up loving it, thinking it was awesome, then heard the stories and saw the videos on youtube and from the age of 17/18 thought it was just a crock of shit, had the worst armchair opinion of how things were etc etc.

Went for the first time last year and had a great day (saturday) stayed till midway through the saturday night concert after supercruise.

This year I took Karlie (my Fiance for those playing at home) along with me, my mate and his old boy (flies down from brisbane every year)

She was smart enough to know that a tshrit and a pair of jean shorts that cover more than your asshole are appropriate attire if you don't want to be harrassed.

She'll come again next year as well.

I saw two pockets of bad behaviour. One was near the Eastside cruisers setup on Tuff St (wasn;t the eastside guys, just using them as a point of reference) Those blokes (and one feral bird) only appeared after about 4-5pm and were trying to cop a feel of any bird in a car, running out to try and encourage skids etc etc. Security kept telling them off, moving them back blah blah. (realistically, I think they needed to be ejected..)

The other was one drunk frOckwit who was getting in peoples faces and acting a tool in the bar tent off lunatic lane when it was floggin down with rain.

Karlie had a bunch of people bump into her in the elite hall just before lunch and her words "everyone was massively apologetic and friendly"

that was in a shed thats not airconditioned, with 40 thousand other people all sweating for a look at the cars that were packed too close together......

I think the lesson is dont think you are going to a music festival.... Dress appropriately and plan for some pockets of drunken frOckwits. The smart guys were avoiding Tuff St once it got later in the day and were just cruising the rest of the circuit. I dont think its right that girls have to cover up to avoid being attacked (verbally and physically) but some common sense goes A LONG WAY to keeping yourself safe.


Just to clarify a few other things that I noticed

The girl that got hit was a parking attendant, not a promo girl. HER facebook page mentions that she was trying to protect another girl when she got hit? Ryan's story is pretty different, but being impartial, im inclined to believe Ryans account.

The VL owner is a friend of a friend, was shot for SM magazine 2 days prior. Stopped in traffic and the last word I heard, the Territory driver was using his phone. The mower was not properly restrained in his trailer either. Brendyn was OK after the crash physically, but is a mental wreck. He had just dropped two friends off 100m before the accident occured.

The front seats were physically pushed forwards by the pressure of the rear seat. If there were rear passengers in the car, we would be looking at a double fatality, possibly more as the extra push forwards could have killed the front passengers.

Also, NOT a genuine walky. Long term build just finished, engineered and COMPLETELY insured as-is by Shannons. No idea on how the driveline faired.

Edited by orangeLJ, 07 January 2013 - 08:06 AM.

[REDA9X]

Orange, thanks for filling in some gaps. I can imagine your mate would be a wreck having just dropped people off, it's very very lucky indeed because they wouldn't be with us today. Mobile phones, when will people ever learn?!

[hanra]

Just to clarify a few other things that I noticed

The girl that got hit was a parking attendant, not a promo girl. HER facebook page mentions that she was trying to protect another girl when she got hit? Ryan's story is pretty different, but being impartial, im inclined to believe Ryans account.

Thanks for clearing that up. Im happy to admit that I didnt see any of those things unfold 1st hand.

The only incident that I saw first hand involving the girls, was from a group of young boys approx 16yrs old constantly grabbing girls breasts as they drove past sitting in the back of vehicles. This was taking place across the road from me but was in front of a security guard who was more concerned with drivers doing little skids. One girl was nearly toppled out the back and off the tailgate of a ute as she was grabbed.

Ive searched for the video footage of the all in brawl that erupted after the parking attendant got hit, its been taken down from fb. It also showed a few guys stealing merchandise from an exhibitor stand as the crowd went past.

I was there from 9-3 Fri/Sat and till lunch on Sun. Id say after about lunch time the crowds were getting pretty rowdy, girls being yelled at and called c*nts for not showing there breasts. I would hate to see how things panned out as night time fell.

Yes its easy to say, "if you dont like what goes on, then dont go"... well this trip was a surprise xmas present from my mrs, and to be honest I didnt have any idea it was anything like what I saw. So now I know what goes on, I wont go anymore. It was an experience that I can say I was a part of.