Locals Beg Police to Stop Bridal Burnouts

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A POTENTIALLY deadly bridal car burnout has left a family fuming after 18 months of trying to get authorities to deal with a hoon.
Video of the ear-splitting antics shows wedding party members - including the bride - engulfed in a plume of smoke as a car decked with bridal ribbon does a tyre-shredding burnout outside a children's park in a residential street.

Wedding guests can be seen taking photos before they disappear from view as the souped-up red Holden lays down duel 60m strips of smoking rubber before disappearing into a garage.

The video was filmed this month by a family in the northwestern suburb of Taylors Hill, who have been trying for more than a year to get authorities to act against car hoons.

They released the footage a day after the Herald Sun revealed dangerous and noisy drivers were what we hate most about our neighbourhoods.

An earlier video shot by the family shows a hotted-up green Torana - also visible in the wedding video - doing a tyre-screaming burnout across the street and into the same garage, forcing a passing car to brake and stop outside the house.

"Gina" said her home would shake and rattle when the hoon was active.

"I have lost count of how many times we and neighbours have rung the police and even handed them video and still nothing has been done," she said.

Gina said it was a joke for police to claim they were "very focused" on taking hoons off the road, given the buck passing they had encountered: "Don't ring us, ring the hoon line. Same with the EPA about the car noise - don't ring us, report it to the police. Then police say ring the EPA.

"What do you do? I know the police are busy, but this has been an ongoing issue.

"Seriously, when is someone going to put their money where their mouth is and really start doing something about the problem?"

A woman at the home where the hoon car is garaged yesterday said she was the owner of a red Holden and a green Torana, but knew nothing about the tyre tracks leading to her driveway.

Neighbour Sibe Sulejmini told the Herald Sun today she had asked the council to act saying motorists were terrorising the neighbourhood.

She said the council put in a speed monitoring device and was shocked at its reaction.

"They said it was not fast enough and they can't do anything about it," Mrs Sulejmini said.

"It's not safe, it feels scary. Cars going fast - they just go crazy."

She estimated some drivers and motorbike riders clocked speeds of up to 100km/h in the 50km/h zone.

Another neighbour said residents had moved out of George St because the hooning became unbearable.

The mother-of-two was now fuming that she wasn't informed about the potentially killer drivers on her neighbourhood.

"This is just mad and we are terrified," she said.

"Something needs to be done."

A police spokeswoman said police were gathering additional information about the wedding incident.

She said that all allegations of hoon behaviour were taken seriously and urged people to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or 000 in cases where hoon behaviour was putting lives at risk

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