Today I learnt a new word. Hooning....
Quick check on Wiki shows that it means anti-social driving behaviour.
I can vouch for that. Traffic slowed down just to see where the sound was coming from. Sounded like a lorry plus helicopter altogether.
Nobody let him watch Fast and Furious 6 .
Please.
Hoon is a derogatory term used in Australia and New Zealand, to refer to anyone who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviours. In particular, it is used to refer to one who drives a car or boat
in a manner which is anti-social by the standards of contemporary
society, i.e. too fast, too noisily or too dangerously. In New Zealand,
the term "boy racer" is also widely used. Another slang term, revhead—derived from "rev", an alternate term for RPM—is sometimes used in place of hoon. However, "revhead" can refer to any car enthusiast,
while hoon is always pejorative. "Anti-hoon laws", while they generally
concern road vehicles, sometimes also target anti-social behaviour in
motor boats.
Hoon activities can include speeding, burnouts, doughnuts or screeching tires.[1]
Those commonly identified as being involved in "hooning" or street
racing are young and predominantly male, although increasingly female,
drivers in the age range of 17 and 35 years.[2]
Hoon control laws are beginning to be extended to dangerous and
annoying hoon behaviour using boats and other vessels, particularly jet
skis. The State of Victoria, Australia passed legislation in late 2009
to control hoon activities using recreational vessels.[3]
2 comments:
Hooners make me want to take a sledgehammer to their cars. Those with bright white headlights I want to bash in their headlights.
Yes, there is a road bully in me screaming to get out, why do you ask?
Sabar snuze...sabar...heheh
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