Sunday, August 25, 2013

Here is a scene from a legal, organised, QLD car show today.. 50+ police and Department of Transport, blocking both routes out of the event, specifically set up to target the vehicles going to this show. What are your thoughts on this? My personal thoughts are that this act by the QPS is extremely short sighted. While on one hand the Police will have had "great success" at defecting people and issuing fines, but have SEVERELY failed at one thing - These events are run, with part of the reason being - to get it's members to take it off the street, and take it to the track (check out their track days, run regularly). The ability for this organisation to 'convert' those people from 'car shows' to maybe giving 'track days' a go (and as such, driver education), is now greatly reduced. If people now think that they have less chance of getting nicked out back of the industrial estate or up the mountains, what motivation do they have to go to legally organised events? I remember running events way back when in VIC, the police (as 'hard arsed' as they are down there), still would come to the meeting places (invited), and EDUCATE the members, let people have an open Q&A, not treat it like a "fish in a barrel".. Very disappointed with QPS's display today, Very poor form.. What's your say? [Picture sent in from Scotty,