Lygon St hoons

Lygon St is a well known stretch of road in Melbourne Australia. 

It is most famous for its Italian restaurants, pizzerias, cafés and a bustling night life, especially during the Australian summer, along with many other events, which include a festival during the Australian Grand Prix, which has the Italian auto manufacturer’s Ferrari , as a theme.

Lygon St, is also known for businesses that are Italian mafia controlled, money laundering gambling venues, both legitimate and illegal and for at least a generation, a car hoon Mecca.

Recently, Lygon St has been in the corporate media news, for all the wrong reasons. A drug related shooting at a gambling venue, pedestrians being killed by hoon drivers, and hoon drivers wrapping their cars around poles.

The police constantly remind the masses that road deaths  are not only unacceptable, but can be avoided in many cases. When it comes to Lygon St the policy is quite different.

Many bikers frequent Lygon St, in their unroadworthy machines, with clearly louder than the state’s legal limit of 100 dB(A) pre 1985 or 94 dB (A) after 1985. The police in many of those instances choose to do nothing.

Hooning up and down Lygon St is a common practice amongst car enthusiasts. Various makes and models of cars can been seen from cruisers, supercharged 1930’s hot rods, rotaries, muscle car era vehicles all the way to exotic Lamborghini and Ferrari supercars.

One can be sitting outside a five star restaurant, and be subjected to noise pollution not once during the evening, but more close to once every 10 to 15 minutes, from mini drags at a set of lights to biker gang runs.

Police will diligently write an infringement notice to a student who failed to use an indicator while turning left, and completely look the other way to a cafe owner drag racing their Lamborghini or Ferrari.

Corpau has obtained a video (see below) of a common night at Lygon St, with literally no police in sight. 

This is not an isolated example of what happens at Lygon St, but rather a common occurrence.

Police do work in unison with criminals allowing them free passage. Just another small part in the state’s corruption.