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I would suggest the third guy did not learn much due to all the picture taking and giggle. Maybe this shows that some drivers need formal training if they want to tackle those situations.Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardK
I know we all had/have to learn as I did but to damage tracks to create a giggle session for the onlookers is what the media thrive on.
Nothing particularly bad in that vid that I could see - in this case it would seem to be a media beat up, surprise surprise ... :rolleyes:
Have no problems with fining real hoons though.
saw it on the news last night and am still laughing, the classic beat up, the track they showed with the drop off , saying tankers couldn't get through because it was chopped up, showed a rock ledge drop off, caused by erosion, I suspect this is a ploy for more money,
what was hooning, nothing that i could see,
and the threats to prosecute based on video footage from utube, poses some questions ,
virtually impossible, why?, because a vehicle driving on a track doesn't give a location only shows a track which could be anywhere!
john
It think it was Rupert Murdoch who said:
'Never let the facts get in the road of a good story.'
GQ
The video did not look like "Hooning" to me, my like a drive in the country testing out Jap vehicles :)
Mind you a couple could do with a bit more training in off road driving..
Now I recon the people who designed the new Hummer should put it through that track... :D :D :D
it wouldnt fit now! trust me:cool:Quote:
Now I recon the people who designed the new Hummer should put it through that track... :D :D :D
cheers phil
If that is hooning then I'm never going to drop the clutch at the lights again.
But seriously, I don't see a problem with the type of activity on the enclosed YouTube clip.
The guys I hate are the ones that cut their own tracks and wreck bush and those brain dead morons who have a weekend in the bush and leave cans and stubbies laying around all over the place.
The Yogies are partly to blame by putting in Tank Traps which just encourage the hoons to go around them wrecking even more bush.
I don't have a probem with them fining the $hit out of those you wreck it for everyboby but we need to be careful that we don't give the anti 4WD lobby more ammo to shoot us with.
Can I just say that I am a member of another 4wd forum, and the outrage there is rampant. I myself have drafted and sent a letter to two of the media outlets. I personally have had enough of this misleading journalism and continued barraging of 4wders.
It really is time that 4wders stand up and be counted. I think that the vast majority of this forum who have seen the video footage, will agree that no hooning took place. Yet they continued to say that the drivers were destroying Wombats homes, and the tracks were used by fire trucks, it further added to the insult by saying the Rural fire brigade spend six million dollars a year to maintain those tracks when infact its the local 4wd clubs that clean and maintain the area.
If I may and no one objects I will post a link to the other forum which shows that finally some action is being taken against this sensationalised journalism.
http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/phpBB2...p't=122955
the 4wd association public relations guy should be straight onto this. apart from the volunteer track maintenance, there was also the .A.B.U.G. cleanups in the appin area.
admittedly they did mention on the story on channel 7 that the "hoons" are the minority and most 4wders did the right thing.
if it wasn't for the 4wdrivers, most of these tracks would be impassable with trees across them and vegetation overgrowing, blocking the track. look at the problems that came about during some of the major fires in national parks over the last couple of years.