4WD Hoon's

**Dinty** · 17th October 2007, 05:54 PM

G'day All, Just heard on the local news that the RFS and Gov't bodies are reviewing Youtube clips for 4WD Hoon's and according to them they are going to prosecute, claiming damage to fire trails etc. The fine they are proposing is $200,000

, anyway cheers Dennis

PS Don't shoot me I'm only the messenger, area's being targeted are the Sth Coast NSW.

**Stepho_62** · 17th October 2007, 06:18 PM

I'm with Pat

**Outlaw** · 17th October 2007, 06:21 PM

yep agreed, go get 'em as they give us all a bad name

Wazza · 17th October 2007, 06:26 PM

The only hassle i see is that if footage of legit 4wding in the bush can look at times look like we are chopping the tracks up.

Wazza

**discowhite** · 17th October 2007, 06:27 PM

totally agree! after seing what a mess appin is in a few fines wouldnt go astray! as long as the money goes back into track repairs/maintance.

cheers phil

**Tank** · 17th October 2007, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by discowhite

totally agree! after seing what a mess appin is in a few fines wouldnt go astray! as long as the money goes back into track repairs/maintance.

cheers phil

Yeh! that will happen, I'm sure, Regards Frank.

**Outlaw** · 17th October 2007, 06:51 PM

hmmm good point wazza

**muddydigger** · 17th October 2007, 07:00 PM

The footage on You tube doesnt show any hooning or disrespect for the enviroment. At worst it showed on vehicle struggling for traction in a deep rut, refered to in a newspaper article as a wombats hole, implying a home for an animal. The story follows a news article in a Sydeny Paper that completely misrepresnts what happend, It delibratly decieves the reader and only tells a sensationalised story.
The video footage didnt show any hooning, just a bunch of 4wds driving slowly through ruts.

the video in question, form your own opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ADwzvtqMdo

mcrover · 17th October 2007, 07:00 PM

I wish they would do something like that in the vic high country.

Might slow a few down.

**vnx205** · 17th October 2007, 07:16 PM

The media certainly like to make 4WDers look as bad as they possibly can.
A couple of years back some idiots did wheelies, donuts, etc in Bendethra Valley.
Media reports made it sound as if there was not a blade of grass left in the whole campsite.
Anyone who has been there will know that it just would not be possible to do that to the whole campsite. It's about 4km long.
A neighbour was there less than a month later and said the grass was already growing back.
By the time I went there on a couple of visits some 6 months later, I couldn't see where they had been.

Just so there is no misunderstanding, I think what they did was wrong, idiotic, and antisocial. If I had seen them I would have certainly recorded their rego and reported them.
My point is that the media reports did not give an accurate picture of the extent of the damage. They just wanted to blacken the name of 4WDers as much as possible by a ludicrously exaggerated description of the damage.

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