HappySlapper82
5th July 2009, 12:40 PM
Did anyone else read this in the Sunday Mail today?
What does everyone think of it. Does anyone here go to any of these club cruises etc?
(http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,27574,25733596-2682,00.html)Click Here For Full Story from AdelaideNow Site (http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,27574,25733596-2682,00.html)
GANGS of hoons in their hundreds are seizing control of major Adelaide streets in the dead of night to run high-speed drag races and burnout competitions.
A Sunday Mail investigation has revealed a highly organised world of dangerous drivers who use vehicle road blocks and lookouts with CB radios to avoid interference from police.
Frustrated officers have admitted they are fighting a war against hoons, who regularly congregate in their hundreds to drag race and do burnouts in suburban areas.
Convoys of hoons - including two witnessed by the Sunday Mail - are moving from area to area - often over many hours and from south of the city to the north. Ordinary motorists who make it past sentries are often forced to swerve out the way of skidding cars and walls of smoke from lines of cars doing burnouts.
Police say it is only a matter of time until more lives are lost and they are now being trained to spot hi-tech illegal modifications as hoons become more cunning.
Supt Anthony Fioravanti, the officer in charge of Port Adelaide local service area, said illegal street racing and hoon behaviour was becoming more highly organised.
"It's well known that they use lookouts and text regularly to let each other know where police are," he said. "In the old days, you might have someone doing a burnout to show off in front of someone, but now people are actually leaving home with burnout tyres on the back of their car.
"There's no doubt what their intent is and that's to raise havoc and do big burnouts."
One of two car club cruises attended by the Sunday Mail ended with a major highway being taken over by up to 100 cars taking turns shredding tyres with burnouts and circle work.
The other led to a series of crashes as cars peeled out of suburban shopping centre car parks.
For the full story, click the above (also has a short video taken by the Sunday Mail)ink
What does everyone think of it. Does anyone here go to any of these club cruises etc?
(http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,27574,25733596-2682,00.html)Click Here For Full Story from AdelaideNow Site (http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,27574,25733596-2682,00.html)
GANGS of hoons in their hundreds are seizing control of major Adelaide streets in the dead of night to run high-speed drag races and burnout competitions.
A Sunday Mail investigation has revealed a highly organised world of dangerous drivers who use vehicle road blocks and lookouts with CB radios to avoid interference from police.
Frustrated officers have admitted they are fighting a war against hoons, who regularly congregate in their hundreds to drag race and do burnouts in suburban areas.
Convoys of hoons - including two witnessed by the Sunday Mail - are moving from area to area - often over many hours and from south of the city to the north. Ordinary motorists who make it past sentries are often forced to swerve out the way of skidding cars and walls of smoke from lines of cars doing burnouts.
Police say it is only a matter of time until more lives are lost and they are now being trained to spot hi-tech illegal modifications as hoons become more cunning.
Supt Anthony Fioravanti, the officer in charge of Port Adelaide local service area, said illegal street racing and hoon behaviour was becoming more highly organised.
"It's well known that they use lookouts and text regularly to let each other know where police are," he said. "In the old days, you might have someone doing a burnout to show off in front of someone, but now people are actually leaving home with burnout tyres on the back of their car.
"There's no doubt what their intent is and that's to raise havoc and do big burnouts."
One of two car club cruises attended by the Sunday Mail ended with a major highway being taken over by up to 100 cars taking turns shredding tyres with burnouts and circle work.
The other led to a series of crashes as cars peeled out of suburban shopping centre car parks.
For the full story, click the above (also has a short video taken by the Sunday Mail)ink