Confiscated jet ski

[crisso]

You be a hoon in your car and you get your car confiscated.Is this a first?A guy in Melbourne,Australia was "hooning" on his ski and got caught.He got all the fines and penalties AND had his ski confiscated.It's on Yahoo Aust..The cops had to chase him down.It say's he was 5 times over the speed limit.
I don't know what to think.Too drastic or one more idiot off the water.
We don't need a bad reputation but were the speed limits properly posted.
S'pose we'll never know

 

[Dr Honda]

sounds like the guy was a jack-off... but what exactly is "Hooning?"

 

[dsw222]

For those of you who aren't from Australia and are going to Google "hoon", i'll save you some time

From wikipedia

Hoon is a derogatory term used in Australia and New Zealand, to refer to a young person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour. In particular, it is used to refer to one who drives a car in a manner which is anti-social by the standards of contemporary society, that is, fast, noisily and/or dangerously. In New Zealand, the term "boy racer" is also widely used. Another slang term, revhead — derived from "rev", an alternate term for RPM — is sometimes used in place of hoon. However, "revhead" can refer to any car enthusiast, while hoon is always pejorative. "Anti-hoon laws", while they generally concern road vehicles, sometimes also target anti-social behaviour in motor boats.

Hoon activities can include speeding, burnouts, doughnuts or screeching tires.[1] Those commonly identified as being involved in "hooning" or street racing are young, predominantly male although increasingly female drivers in the age range of 17 and 35 years.[2]

 

[RFoster130]

So its basically the kids in the import cars like the fast and the furious. i think almost all teenage boys drive like that at some point in the US. Sounds kinda harsh to confiscate everything.

 

[Dr Honda]

Thanks for the explanation :cheers:

I will agree that it sounds harsh. Heck... I'm almost 40, and I had to see what kind of patch my new truck could put down. :biggrinjester:

 

[crisso]

Hooning reply

:lols:
Thankyou for answering the hooning question.It says it all.Glad I didn't have to type all that.Would've taken me all week.
Hoon=a young di**head with no regard to the law or the safety of any other person
Hooning/done by a hoon,revhead.
We also have "Doof Doofs".Huge stereo in the car.A massive sub-woofer and all you can hear is Doof Doof Doof as they come down the road.
You've all seen and heard them.$800 car with $3000 worth of sound gear in it.

 

[Mr Africa]

I might have some hoon in me:

Hell I am 34 and I might have some in me.
I put my navara side ways every now and again (good way to destress).

To really give the traffic cops something to do on a Friday night I borrowed my friends BMW M3 (set up for racing with turbo 435kw on back wheels) two maybe four times and got them to chase us for a bit.

Even made the paper in a small town. Down main street sideways with cops behind, was a great pic.

Sometimes a person needs to have some fun
BUT ALSO
Never endanger innocent lives as that is just stupid and reckless.

 

[crisso]

Hooning reply

Hey. I can live with that 100%
I had a HSV,you guys call it a GTO,310 kw at the rear wheels.When I traded it on an Evo 9 I took the kids to an estate that had not one house on it.
Not a person for about 1 mile
I lit it up in a straight line,put it into 4 donuts and then left the street with about 200 meters of black line.
No person or car was in the area and I did not go over 20 kph.
Call me a hoon but I did not endanger anyone
There is a time and a place to do everything.I just wish the younger guys in cars would realise this.
Don't do it in the suburbs please

 

[D 5UPE]

Confiscating stuff is wrong unless it has been the cause of a serious accident maybe. Just last year four of my Skiing buddies got took to Court and fined for speeding on the local river. They knew the speed limit but got caught out. It made National press and even US CG pages.
Check the link
http://www.portoftyne.co.uk/news/port-of-tyne/prosecuted-for-speeding-on-the-river-tyne/

 

[Radarscratch]

For those of you who aren't from Australia and are going to Google "hoon", i'll save you some time

From wikipedia

Hoon is a derogatory term used in Australia and New Zealand, to refer to a young person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour. In particular, it is used to refer to one who drives a car in a manner which is anti-social by the standards of contemporary society, that is, fast, noisily and/or dangerously. In New Zealand, the term "boy racer" is also widely used. Another slang term, revhead — derived from "rev", an alternate term for RPM — is sometimes used in place of hoon. However, "revhead" can refer to any car enthusiast, while hoon is always pejorative. "Anti-hoon laws", while they generally concern road vehicles, sometimes also target anti-social behaviour in motor boats.

Hoon activities can include speeding, burnouts, doughnuts or screeching tires.[1] Those commonly identified as being involved in "hooning" or street racing are young, predominantly male although increasingly female drivers in the age range of 17 and 35 years.[2]

Sounds like a "squid"