Lewis Hamilton caught hooning

[GoLfMan]

What an absolute farkin joke, all this does is make Australia and the Victorian police an international laughing stock. What a pathetic nanny state this country has become.

ditto.

Well said sir!

[Ben_GTI]

If I had a C63 AMG I would probably get done exactly the same. I agree the law should be applied fairly, but if someone says it was dangerous, they're a twat.

[Oneofthegreats]

Who cares!

He should cop it on the chin like everyone else I say!

He broke the law & he has to deal with it as much I also reckon it is a bloody joke!

I've never seen anyone get killed or even injured from a static burnout!

I'm still yet to see statistics on the death rate from burnouts & such so called "hoonery" compared to high speed & drink driving incidents!

Isn't it funny how the police always manage to call off a car chase right before a major smash or incident! Mmmmmm right!



But its alright for the police commissioner to carry bullets on a aeroplane!


Funny. the article has more mention of Mark Webber than what Hamilton did!

[Buller_Scott]

people in new zealand who are laughing their asses off at the fact that red tape is witholding the scirocco and the golf R etc etc, are laughing even harder now.

tie me kangaroo down, sport, we're a joke- wouldnt be surprised if other F1 host nations have tears in their eyes, they're laughing so hard.

[gareth_oau]

I totally agree with the principle of hoon laws.

They are supposed to capture the idiots who do reckless things like donuts in shopping centre carparks whilst others are there, or highspeed fistails in the wet, both of which there is a realistic rsik that someone could be hurt or killed.

What we have is a bunch of idiots who are applying it to the nth degree and making a mockery of the system.

Right now, a DSGed car blips the throttle when down-changing. The way things are going, that will be grounds for confiscation and crushing!!

[mikinoz]

Surprised after searching no one has the event on youtube. But there is about 2 minutes of footage where a hamilton entourage tries to obscure the camera view of lewis while being booked. Nothing worth watching.

[JustCruisn]

I want to know why the police think that locking up his car for 2 days would be punishment for him.
I bet after 1 phone call he had another AMG waiting for him. The car will be back on the lot on Monday as originally planned.
So what did the confiscation do ? SFA. = Another failure for hoon laws.

[gareth_oau]

same reason that they locked up the doctor's lamborghini in Perth after the mechanic was caught driving it - because the legislation is an ass and it too narrow and narrowly imposed to account for every-day situations

[Buller_Scott]

whhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaattt?!?!?!?! a mech was caught driving the lambo, so they punished the owner?

how does that figure? shouldnt they be confiscating the mech's license?

funny how the powers that be, are so lacklustre in their imagination that they're applying catch-n-book-p-platers-in-their-piece-of-s**t-vs-ss-commodores laws to the current formula 1 world champion.

funny how all these "hoon laws" seem to cast such a long shadow, and yet you dont see lewis hamilton smashing up a bob jane t-marts shop because they're not sponsoring easternats (whoopdee do, kingswoods doing burnouts). hoons are hoons are hoons and thats it eh?

good to see that the law is doing its best to keep society safe. meanwhile, i dont see much going on RE the two assholes that sexually assaulted that poor wheelchair bound girl, THEN proceeded to mercilessly bash her, THEN kicked her wheelchair away and tied her to a pagoda here in melbourne.

but atleast the formula one world champion has been punished for doing a burnout.

[gtimk5]

I support the anti hoon laws and find it good that no matter who it is, they still book them. If they hadnt booked Lewis it would have been double standards.
Seeing that shocking prang in Vic last night on the TV this morning, I am surprised that some here object to the road safety campain...

[JustCruisn]

The problem with these hoon laws is that does not matter who owns the car.
If someone stole your car and got caught hooning it would get impounded. So you end up being punished. How is that fair ?
And for all the crashes on Vic this weekend how many were due to hooning ?

[Blitzen]

I support the anti hoon laws and find it good that no matter who it is, they still book them. If they hadnt booked Lewis it would have been double standards.
Seeing that shocking prang in Vic last night on the TV this morning, I am surprised that some here object to the road safety campain...

I don't object to it, but I don't support it...As Scott said, hoons will be hoons, whatever car they are in...Innocent people will die regardless of what laws are in place...At the end of the day, **** happens, and people die.

The more people that come onto the roads every year, the more accidents will happen...The fact that very little of the money made from road violations is being spent back on the roads means that I don't take the hoon laws seriously, and won't till they sort it out properly...

Its good that Hamilton got punished the way he did t prevent double standards, but the standard of the law in the first place is laughable...

[Oneofthegreats]

The fact that very little of the money made from road violations is being spent back on the roads means that I don't take the hoon laws seriously, and won't till they sort it out properly...

Not a truer word has been said!

Funny I read about fixed speed camera's getting vandalized/burnt etc which they said cost the tax payer's approx $30+K.

But...

They also said in the same sentence that these camera rake in more than $1M each & every year!!!!!!!!!!

Now where does all that money go? I know it doesn't go back on the roads! I've seen the state of alot of main & secondary roads & they are s%#t to say the least!




At the end of the day I've said it a million times & I'll say it again.

It just too easy for cops to pull over & pick on young people behind the wheel & make stupid traffic laws & regulations, cause its just "too" hard for them to do real police work eg. finding drug dealers, rapists, murder's & robbers etc.

& I've been through this first hand too! Lazy arse fat coppers with speed camera's!



You don't make revenue from arresting real crooks!!!!!!

[Buller_Scott]

You don't make revenue from arresting real crooks!!!!!!

it's a shame that at the end of the day, that's what it's really all about, isnt it?

[Henri]

Ironic thing to happen. You'd think he wouldn't need to take his driving aggression out on a normal production car on public roads after racing the F1 on a circuit. I thought that would be one of the reasons people race, so they don't have to do it on the streets...