by Frost » February 7th, 2009, 11:53 am
This thread inspired me to write a letter to the Minister.
Minister for Police & Emergency Services
Spring St
Melbourne
cc. Chief commissioner of police, Office of Police integrity
REF: Police
Dear Minister,
I am a self-confessed car nut, I love performance vehicles and travelling at high speed, I also love the smell of tire smoke and watching it pollute the atmosphere. But in my self-confession there is a catch, I like it all legally, Winton, Calder, Sandown, Heathcote Park, South Coast Raceway, Easternats and Springnats.
You may be wondering why would someone aged 23 years old be writing to you (even know I know you wont read it, and some good looking female PA will read it and put it in the processed file aka the rubbish bin) admitting their a car nut, why do you care right? I will tell you why (of course I wouldn’t be writing this letter otherwise) because even though I love going fast, wasting money on fuel, doing burnouts, I only like doing it in a safe legal environment, all other times I just like to drive my car.
(Ref: Car nut can also be known as “Avid Car Enthusiast”)
I like driving to Mc Donalds drive through and buying some cheese burgers, or the service station to put some overpriced fuel in. I like driving on Friday and Saturday nights, driving to my mates place, driving to a PUBLIC CARPARK and meeting up with a group of mates, who all share the same interest. Their love for cars.
I was quite appalled to hear that the Police are cracking down on people “cruising” as we like to call it, defecting every car that was in the Sandown car park a few weeks ago, then the same last night it Narre Warren. I honestly think our tax money could be spent better. (Actually I thought this when a Golf GTI pulled me over for a RBT one night, Hyundai I30s are a much more fuel-efficient vehicle) The money could be better spent on taking it away from the police force and giving it to Motorsport associations to create more events and legal locations that people with the love for cars can attend.
But we know that wouldn’t happen, taking money away from the Police, helping young people do the right thing, the last 5 years iv never seen anything like that happen.
This is a warning, the police cracking down on people doing harmless cruising, parking in a communal area to discuss their love for cars or what they are doing tomorrow, is only going to force the problem somewhere else.
With our current financial problems, and people loosing their jobs, they are going to spend their money more wisely. Now $20 of overpriced unleaded will get someone possibly up to 5-6hours of enjoyment, driving to a carpark, chatting with mates, checking out other cars etc.
Or $20 will get them a really bad pill, which they will then go out, hit on some females and one of 3 things will happen.
1. They will leave night and just go home
2. They will get angry causing fights, causing hassles for police etc and end up with their face on the news at 6
3. They will end up in hospital ODing or dead.
But that leaves another problem $20 to go out in the CBD of Melbourne? Pfft maybe if you didn’t need food or water you would be right, $20 is the entry to Crown isn’t it?
Stopping people from Cruising and enjoying their love for cars leads to other things other than what I mentioned above, you need more than $20, need about $100, that’s a lot to take out of a budget on a weekly basis, so that also leads to more high potent alcohol being drank, more malicious drugs being taken, assaults, and robbery.
Your most likely going “this guys nuts, how does stopping people from driving cause robbery”. Remember how I mentioned $20 of overpriced unleaded can bring hours of enjoyment. Its this, force people off the streets and they will go drink, take drugs etc, this cost a lot more, maybe they can only afford $20 a week for enjoyment, and they don’t want to sit at home because there’s nothing fun about that, (plus free to air TV sucks) they go “I need cash” so ill go take it from him and that is where your robbery starts.
So seriously now, your department needs to think about it, by all means I’m not saying if Muzza over there rips a burnout in his hetick VL at the corner of Springvale Rd and the Princes Hwy, let him go, by all means go Impound his vehicle, fine him lots of dollars, take his license away. He’s not a car enthusiast he’s a hoon. He would be one of the people that go to Calder to watch the street drags, claims his car is so quick and the only racing he does is on the Melton Hwy on the way home.
Maybe the Police should lay off the people in the car parks, cruising along etc and focus on catching the hoons doing 170km/h in the 50km/h , ripping skids at Noble Park Maccas, street racing in their mums commodore down the Princes Hwy. Because as Iv stated you push people away from doing something they enjoy, it is going to have a flow on effect and push the problem else where, or your going to end up with Noble park riots, which do you prefer?
Thank you for the time you didn’t take to read my letter Minister, because I have no doubt like all letters sent to you this one will make it to your Attractive Female PA and no further.
If you would like to discuss this with me further feel free to look up my details via the Vicpol/Vicroads system and get my number from there.