Hoon drivers to be used in test of government's new GPS speed device

[Kamshaaft]

Yaww, that's going to be a riot long after I stop laughing at myslf about it, isn't it?


Zdcol,

The important difference here is that while you, as can be expected of you, pull us up and show us where our heads are at, the 'hoons' opto refers to aren't necessarily the same hoons who kill people.

The hoon opto refers to is generally anybody who wears the all too easily given badge given by the overzealous media and government who discriminate, or more accurately fail to discriminate and instead generalise, against many car enthusiasts and etcetera in such a manner that it unfairly impacts them, brings negative attention towards them, and takes away their unwritten but God given right to the benefit of a doubt.

Sometimes the term is used as a weapon in much the same way Communist was used in the United States when Socialism was their greatest fear, and favourite whipping boy. I'm sure no-one man or woman on these forums debates that.

But to make life worse for the enthusiast, sensationalist slop in particular like Today Tonight and A Current Affair create beat ups then apply them to the image of the average Joe Bloggs with everything from rims on a late model Falcon and not much else, to even an $80k resto that he wouldn't dare abuse, and viola!
Now they're all subject to the label - this propaganda is a good portion of the reason why these notorious P Platers are now synonymous with the term. It doesn't account for all of their reputation, most of us can attest to that either having been one or having witness a few P platers take risks through inexperience or drive like shitheads - but it does go a long way.

Thrown in with the idiots who shouldn't even be on the road in the first place, for which the ever broadening term 'hoon' is almost too honorable, especially when dropkick, criminally negligent idiot, manslaughtering mongrel, and other defined terms already exist.

I'm not trivialising issue at hand here though, or trying to make popular appeal for the 'make benefit' of a sinister agenda, I'm dead serious on this issue.

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