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There is apparently a Seat of Hoon Government. We've generally thought of hoonage as a rather anarchic pastime, but authorities in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia have named the municpality the Hoon Capital. Much like Sacramento and San Francisco, Bendigo came to prominence as a Gold Rush town in the latter part of the 19th Century. In 1994, Bendigo merged with the Borough of Eaglehawk, the Shires of Strathfieldsaye, Huntly, Marong and later the Shire of McIvor to form the City of Greater Bendigo, whose mass suburbia — coupled with Australian can-do spirit — created conditions ripe for a governmental center of Hoonage; a place to champion the donut, celebrate the flying leap and fight back against those who oppose the glory of the burnout. We are hoons. Bendigo is now our Mecca.
Bendigo is hoon capital [The Advertiser, AU]
Related:
Harder to be a Hoon in Australia These Days [Internal]
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How many times a day do we have to pray facing towards it?
Yeah, look at that crazy building, sittin' there, being all grey and brown, hooning it up. And that tree, all like, "Up yours window, I'ma grow royt 'ere! Oi!" Crazy mf streetlamp, too.
I wonder if they impose a hoon impoundment if you light your tires whilst executing an otherwise legal hook turn.
(U.S. Residents, ask an Aussie what a hook turn is, you probably won't believe them.)
@lascauxcaveman: I've encountered them in Tecomán (Mexico), Paris, and in one Chicago suburb that I can't remember.
Ass-backwards street planning, if you ask me.
It is truly a death defying experience to try cross the road in Bendigo. I'm pretty sure that's where the earlier falcon ute blokesworld ad documentry/advertisment was filmed. bored rural youth + copious amounts of V8's with jim beam stickers (never understood the need to advertise drink and driving meself) = streets paved in snakes of rubber.
Hook turns are great fun.
The logic behind them (at least, here in Melbourne) is to stop traffic queuing across tramlines at some of the busier intersections in the CBD.
"Meanwhile, the Crime Stoppers service has been extended through a $250,000 Victorian Government funding injection to include a statewide hoon hotline."
You couldn't make this sh!t up. Do you dial 911? Gawd, its great to be alive and livin' in Dixie!
@StorminNorman: They are fun. I was in Melbourne for three days and was driving my wife (then fiancee) nuts by doing them even when I didn't really need to.
"Hey! I think you just drove past the restaurant..."
"No worries, mate. I'll just do hook turn here."
Hook Turn? I thought you guys were nuts, but its true - something even crazier than a roundabout with signs posted by the Welsh Language Society.
[www.path.unimelb.edu.au]
Since we don't even believe in turn signals, can't see this ever happenin' in the Dirty South mate! LOL
@smokeydog001: Do you dial 911?
To use the hoon hotline, phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000
A hoon hotline!! How awesome is that!?!? I wish they had a hoon hotline for the Petaluma, CA Police, they have new Dodge Charger cop cars. They need to be put to good use and police the hoonage of the northbay.
Hook turns even *sound* like hoonage. Much more exciting than the jug handles in Jersey.
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