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Originally Posted by doppler
I learnt to handle a car by "hooning" in the dirt, in the wet in places where no one was around ie I could only break my own car. It is now illegal to learn these skills ie how to control a rear end slide as you can only do this by experience. Sad example I never taught my daughter how to control a rear end slide. She was doing a right hand turn at an intersection (wet road) when halfway through the turn the auto trans kicked into second causing the rear to slide a bit. She put on the brakes making things worse and hit the gaurd rail. Result, smashed car, $300 towtuck bill and to top it off $300 fine from the wollipers for not having control of her vehicle.
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Yep, thanks to a govt pandering to the NIMBYs with a topic they think wins votes. Not helped by Coppers with little to no driving skill and far too sycophantic to develop an opinion of their own.
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Originally Posted by casstony
On that note, I expect we'll see a continual increase in antisocial behavior associated with inequality in wealth distribution. We can't expect that disenfranchised subset of young people to behave well if they feel excluded from society.
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A fair point mate. I saw it living in ACT where the level of petty crime was about the highest in the country because many of the kids felt so disenfranchised due to having public servant mums and dads with good incomes but no-one to provide them regular entertainment, so they robbed and vandalised. Money isn't always the factor in anti-social behaviour but it can be a start. I grew up poor but always had things to do and I think it made a difference.