Nice work MOTAT; Stuff reports:
It may be the end of the road for one boy racer but it's the start of a whole new educational journey for the thousands who flock to Auckland's Motat.The Western Springs-based transport and technology museum is proudly displaying its latest acquisition - the first car crushed in New Zealand under new Government legislation.The flattened Nissan Laurel was purchased by Motat through a Trade Me auction for $818 - with proceeds going to Youthline.The car was crushed on June 21 at Lower Hutt's Macaulay Metals after Paraparaumu boy racer Daniel Briant was caught doing burnouts just three hours after his third conviction.It was shipped to Motat's secure off-site storage facility while a special stand was erected for the End of the Road exhibition.Museum exhibitions manager Paul Swift said the process of obtaining the car was fairly quick.''We wanted to do something with it that wasn't flat. This is the most striking way to do it,'' he said of the vertical display.''It's five metres tall.''Staff are still deciding how long the car will be on show for.''We will be gauging feedback from visitors,'' Swift said.Marketing manager Deanna Wharton said a group of Greenhithe School students were among the first to check out the wreck.''It got a lot of 'wows'.''Seven year-old Sophie Groen said the car was ''really, really cool''.Her father Mark Groen was impressed by how flat it was.''It's about the only thing they care about - their car,'' he says of boy racers.''This will certainly be a deterrent.''
5 comments:
It's a stupid thing.
Perhaps Te Papa should do an exhibition that shows a prison cell, so that it will serve as a reminder for any criminals that a very constricting fate awaits them if they continually flout the law.
That has to be a good thing, eh, KS.
Stupid idea.
I disagree Sam. Read the comment from the bloke who saw the exhibit with his daughter's school group:
Her father Mark Groen was impressed by how flat it was. ''It's about the only thing they care about - their car,'' he says of boy racers. ''This will certainly be a deterrent.''
It's a very graphic deterrent IMHO
Deterrent my *rse!
You are dreaming, KS. Any boy racer at Motat would hoot and holler with excitement and pride at the sight of that crushed car! They've made it that high in the public arena, thanks to those idiots Tolley and Collins - fame, exposure - people are talking about them!
You don't get it at all.
Boy racers love this stuff!
I used to live at the end of a dusty country road, close to town that attracted the local young fellas to come and do wheelies around the turning circle outside our gate.
My old man who was a hard old ex serviceman didn't give a flying fat rats about the legalitys of life particularly, so in the absence of being able to crush the little shits cars...he would throw great big rocks at them, he did a heap of damage until the buggers got the message and stayed away....I loved the old bastard.
That I like!
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