f-wolf Member 897 Member For: 17y 6m 30d Gender: Male Location: ACT Posted 28/07/10 10:19 PM Share Posted 28/07/10 10:19 PM (edited) Crushing result of putting your foot to the floor POLICE struck a crushing blow to hoon drivers yesterday, flattening an impounded car and warning that more than 40 others are earmarked for the same fate.July 29, 2010At : Crushing result of putting your foot to the floor Edited 29/07/10 01:06 AM by Dagabond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henz Tampon inserted, Auto Acquired, next purchase a new handbag Donating Members 9,946 Member For: 16y 8m 4d Gender: Male Location: Vic Posted 28/07/10 11:10 PM Share Posted 28/07/10 11:10 PM If you owe say 30k on a car worth 20, and your looking to get rid of it, being caught the 3rd time will save you 10 Gorillas if you dont value your licenceGood use of my tax's that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seduced Need more power. Now taking donations. Member 753 Member For: 15y 8m 28d Gender: Male Posted 28/07/10 11:41 PM Share Posted 28/07/10 11:41 PM Since hoon laws were introduced four years ago police have impounded 11,370 vehicles, with Expensive Daewoo in the majority (46.3 per cent), followed by Ford (16.7 per cent), Nissan (7.8 per cent), Toyota (5.1 per cent) and Honda (4.3 per cent).Police now targeting: Holdens.No surprise that they are the most impounded car by a massive margin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 10d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 29/07/10 01:05 AM Share Posted 29/07/10 01:05 AM If you owe say 30k on a car worth 20, and your looking to get rid of it, being caught the 3rd time will save you 10 Gorillas if you dont value your licenceGood use of my tax's that is.Pretty sure they only do it to fully owned vehicles with no outstanding debt....thats why the one that got crushed above is just a POS....Propogandic Horse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henz Tampon inserted, Auto Acquired, next purchase a new handbag Donating Members 9,946 Member For: 16y 8m 4d Gender: Male Location: Vic Posted 29/07/10 04:38 AM Share Posted 29/07/10 04:38 AM My bad, the news explained it like if there was money owing the car would be sold, and the money going to finaceers first. With the extra having to be paid by the government. Seems like its to complicated to work except with sub $5000 sh*tboxes were the owner doesnt really care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB4C Member 328 Member For: 15y 10m 10d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 01/08/10 05:39 PM Share Posted 01/08/10 05:39 PM Rather that crushing the vehicle, they could just do a forced sale of the vehicle, it would help the owner pay off the fines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrich Member 94 Member For: 15y 8m 23d Posted 02/08/10 12:15 AM Share Posted 02/08/10 12:15 AM (edited) I personally think its a joke that they can crush YOUR car, are they going to pay you for it? I dont think so. As others have said they could do a forced sale so that you lose the car but you don't lose all the money you may have put into it. Although those who have their car impounded/crushed have done the wrong thing, I don’t think it warrants their car being crushed. Alternatively why don’t they come up with a scheme where they give these cars to people who cannot afford them, or sell them for a cheap price so people who normally couldn’t afford to buy a car can buy a car. I know this leaves room for people to rip-off the system but surely its better then crushing a car and getting nothing for it.Just my thoughts Edited 02/08/10 12:24 AM by andrich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smicky Go Pies!!! Donating Members 2,852 Member For: 16y 9m 7d Gender: Male Location: Vic Somewhere - Sometimes NSW Posted 02/08/10 03:48 PM Share Posted 02/08/10 03:48 PM Not a legal professional - however I would take a guess and question just what ability there is when it comes to 'ownership'. I can tell you 'if' my car was taken Macquaire Bank wouldn't be happy, nore would I...Im sure there is/would need to be a lot of 'unknowns' with this...I know for a fact it is against trade practices act to prevent any one from making a living in any format. One could fight the fact a 'leased, CHP, or the likes' is for business purpose - and as a result such 'theft' by the gov or not is simply that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skooby Donating Members 398 Member For: 18y 6m 6d Location: Phillip Island Posted 04/08/10 04:01 AM Share Posted 04/08/10 04:01 AM Rather that crushing the vehicle, they could just do a forced sale of the vehicle, it would help the owner pay off the fines.Then that's not really punishing the person for what they did.In the UK they crushed 45000 cars in 2007 for not being insured. They gave you the option of either paying the fine, plus insurance cost, plus impound costs or having the car crushed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 6m 30d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 04/08/10 04:57 AM Share Posted 04/08/10 04:57 AM Their theory in this case was that the vehicle is unsafe because it doesn't have ABS or whatever so shouldn't be 'released' back on to the roads. Very big brotherish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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