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Originally Posted by dadndave
Just take the plates off
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Originally Posted by Paintwerks
+1.
Plus remove the rego label and cover the VIN number if visible from behind the windscreen.
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While this is feasibly an option why the hell should anyone have to?
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Originally Posted by 750hp
There are a couple of hypotheticals that are doing the rounds, but I haven't ever seen how they could be applied based on the legislation...
Box - to your point, the counter argument is that a registered vehicle that was modified for a racing event would need to be reinspected/certified/approved before being allowed back on the street. Having number plates and a rego sticker on the car in race trim brings in the dangerous concept of intent. Can you be penalised for a perceived intent to drive a race-spec vehicle on the road simply because the number plates were still attached during the race meeting? I would suggest that it's as strange an idea as arresting a motorcyclist for walking towards the entrance to a bank as he is removing his helmet. Was there intent to rob the bank, or was the reality that he was just taking his helmet off...
The intent is what I have heard people talking about for cars on trailers. I haven't seen the forum discussion that you're talking about Chris, but the thought is that you can fall under hoon laws for having a road car (in race trim) on a trailer with rego/plates. The perceived issue is that "Intent to cause excessive noise" has been flagged as a hoon offense. I haven't seen that in writing, but the requirement to start your car and drive it off the trailer after arriving home is proof of intent to cause excessive noise.
It all seems a bit fanciful and hysterical to be true, but that's what I'm hearing.
I really wish there would be a nationwide, focussed crackdown on mobile phone usage in cars. Seems like it would do a lot more to improve driving standards and reduce road trauma than a knee-jerk legislative reaction to over hyped media beatups about hoons on A Current Affair.
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The issue is over regulation of something that is in effect a victimless crime.
Who has been harmed or is being harmed by this act of towing the car on a trailer.
I agree smack'em with a just punishment if they are hooning up and down suburban roads, causing a nuisance, or the like, but being hit for "INTENT" as Craig has outlined is just plain wrong!
Guilty before the performing any act of crime - Minority report anyone!
I'm starting to sound like Alex Jones
