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Thursday, 15 November 2007
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The NSW Government comes up with a new way to discourage dangerous driving by citizens- destroy their prized possession and film the process!
NSW Government to destroy hoons' cars and show video of it
Herald Sun, November 12, 2007
CAR hoons will be penalised and humiliated under a NSW government initiative to wreck the vehicles of offenders and publish video footage of the destruction. NSW Premier Morris Iemma says the plan proposes to destroy hoons' cars in demonstration tests under controlled conditions.
"Car hoons engage in potentially lethal, property destroying, anti-social behaviour," Mr Iemma said in a statement today. "We're turning the tables. We'll destroy their property - but do it for the right reasons." Police Minister David Campbell said film of the cars being destroyed would be publicly released.
"Video footage of these once-prized possessions being turned into splintered, twisted scrap will be the clearest message yet to hoons that we're serious about stamping out their behaviour and saving lives in the process."
The comments come after a weekend when police confiscated four cars whose drivers were allegedly racing on suburban Sydney streets.
In separate incidents on Saturday night, two 23-year-old men, one a provisional licence holder, a 19-year-old man and 29-year-old man had their cars confiscated by police and were ordered to face court for street racing.
Mr Iemma said the plan to destroy hoons' cars would provide valuable controlled crash statistics, and footage of the destruction would be used as a deterrent to wannabe hoons, while also educating young drivers.
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