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[Redzone]

A mate posted this on fb the other night. Funny thing is it happened just down the road from me. Good thing old mate had a witness!

[rexy]

It's meeting a smart arse copper like this that really lowers ones opinion of the force in general. Cowboys who think they are intellectual giants trying to catch someone out on a throwaway comment. It's a pity these guys exist because in general my experiences have been positive. Nice folk doing a shitty job who are usually polite.

[Redzone]

A good friend of mine's son is a detective, they refer to traffic branch as "jury frOckers" for reasons shown above. Most of them seem to be dickheads bringing down the work of the guys in the police service there for the right reasons..

[Redzone]

Fair point,one observation I have from in my area though is that the amount of marks on the road seems to increase every time they bring out stiffer penalties!

Rebels without a cause maybe?

[Uncle Chop Chop]

Rebels without a cause maybe?

More like idiots without any regard for others.

[wot179]

I doubt many blokes on this forum haven't done the odd skid in their youth.

 

I know I did. In all kinds of inappropriate places.

 

It was fun, but I grew out of it, like most blokes.

 

I wasn't scared off by rules, rules mean nothing when you are young and bulletproof.

 

It just wasn't much fun after a while.

 

Plus, I started drag racing, which was more fun.

 

Its a scientific fact that young fellas brains haven't developed to understand risk or danger too well by the time they get their licenses.

 

Its a big part of why they figure so highly in all manner of accident statistics (as I certainly did).

 

Sad but true.

 

I doubt very much if this rule will have any impact at all on road accidents or young fellas behaviour in motorcars.

 

It will give the appearance of the pollies doing a good thing when they can roll out statistics of impounded/crushed cars.

 

But no actual change in behaviour.

 

That's my 2c worth.

[Uncle Chop Chop]

I stopped doing burnouts on the street after too many driveline failures. Or at least greatly reduced the frequency. More booze busses would be a greater factor in reducing the road toll. And catching those drivers speeding WAY over the limit.

[Rockoz]

When I was a teenager growing up there was an acceptable level of behaviour.

If your behaviour fell below the acceptable level there was punishment attached.

The punishment generally hurt.

So you learnt to keep your behaviour on the acceptable side or risk the punishment.

The punishment varied depending on the place your behaviour was deemed unacceptable.

Most people changed their behaviour to only acceptable behaviour or conduct there unacceptable behaviour where there was little chance of discovery.

 

These days the level of acceptable behaviour has not only dropped significantly, but the punishments dont seem to have any effect.

The punishments dont hurt.

Society has deemed the old punishments as no longer acceptable.

 

Impounding cars and crushing them might just hurt enough people that others may decide to curb their behaviour.

 

It may or may not work.

But instead of saying its not right come up with a better solution to curbing anti social behaviour.

Dont just sit there and harp about it..

 

Some wise person once said if you find a problem without trying to find a solution, you are still just part of the problem,

[Rockoz]

The big difference between doing skids and the other stuff you mentioned Ian is that the skids are highly visible.

The people doing them tend to piss off a lot of people in a very short space of time.

 

Where I lived years ago we used to have regular visits by the street dragging community.

They used to piss a lot of people off too.

Cops put on major operations to target these people at the time.

 

In the end it will be the highly visible behaviour that gets the attention.

Perhaps its because the officials can be seen to be making an impact.

[Rockoz]

Laz

The difference back when I was younger we tended to do our stuff away from the public eye.

An old mate of mine drummed it into me.

Dont shit in your own nest.

You have to live there.

So we did the majority of our stuff in remote areas.

I used to ride my motorcross bike through town to get to the bush.

Used to putt through town as quiet as possible.

Waited till away from the houses before opening it up.

Same on the way home.

The people who lived near the bush and along my route used to compliment me and the mates about our respect for them.

Not all the riders were the same.

The out of towners had no respect and used to get dramas from the cops, while we rode past undisturbed

[WhiteA9XS]

We are becoming a banana republic country as time goes on . For Christ sake just take the hoons licence away for a period of time instead of crushing his car .

 

This government needs to relax the liabilities and insurance costs that tribute to high cost of entries to offroad track events , gymkanas , racetracks,  etc ,

 

Let the young guys play in organised controlled locations instead , then theres no excuse for misbehaving on the roads . 

[Rockoz]

Unfortunately its the insurance companies that put the costs up for insurance.

And that is because these days no one wants to be responsible for themselves.

They want to be able to blame someone and make a dollar from suing.

[Dr Terry]

Since when did  burn-outs get to be called 'skids' ?

 

Isn't a skid what happens when your brakes lock up ?

 

I remember them being called wheelies, way back when, bur never skids.

 

Dr Terry

[wot179]

I remember when we all started calling them skids.

 

It was around 1988/89.

 

Some  pissed sheila in the main street of Campbelltown yelled at one of our group as we were cruising up and down Queen Street, "Do a skid, mister!"

 

We cracked up,(for the reason you stated above) and it instantly entered our vocabulary as a tool to mock each other with.

 

I doubt that's the first account of it being used, but its my first account.

 

I love Aussie slang.

[wot179]

Drifting used be known as "hanging it out round a corner" too.

 

Language evolves.

 

Different words mean different things to different people at different times.

 

Slang changes with the generations. Words come and go like fashion.

 

Always have, always will.