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Here in the UK if a car is stopped with no insurance / MOT test certificate / road tax / no license / disqualified driving / drink driving the car is siezed and put in a Police compound - the cost for recovery and the compound is 130 Pounds for the first day, then around 12 pounds for every other day. If the car is not recovered by the owner with full documentation the Police have the right to crush the car or send it to auction. In the UK they estimate that 1 in every 5 drivers are unisured.   

I think it is a little severe to take someones private property, like a car and crush it.

Crushed ?  I thought thier car (the hoons) was impounded,or took off them indefinatly and sold to auction.Surely a WRX ,which a lot of the hoons drive these days,wouldn't get crushed.I agree thier cars should be taken away from them.The more i think about this,the police probably do crush the cars ,as to stop the hoons from crushing someone else and thier car.

I think it would be a good idea. How else to at least hamper these repeat offenders that have no regard for the law. BTW: I have no knowledge of the severity of the problem in Australia but I know there have been many repeat offenders here in the states.

I think that living in a police state is wrong were they can just take something away but I also think not acting in a responsible manner is just as wrong. NEVERTHELESS, the bigger problem here is that if people cannot act in a responsible manner then why would we think that the police would in the end.

they did it to my brothers car. it was on private property...unregistered, they red flagged it as being abandoned , gave him a seven day notice to remove it,and he did not, sure enough they  took it to the bone yard, and crushed it, now if that were a bot or camper then what..it's all about the money.

Yes,as long as the "HOON" is in it when they crush it!.OK just kidding.For repeat offenders "YES" crush their cars & make them watch. The problems with these hoons these days is that the cars have all the capabilities,The drivers do NOT. Licence suspension doesn't work,they just keep driving.Fines don't work either,they are allowed to pay them off. Putting them in jail for a couple of months only costs us money.

Not ok, unless trying to catch an extreme character.

I'm sick of hoons too. I say crush' them at the first offence. In fact, I would crush all the repeat drink and drug  offender's cars also.