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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 3792995" data-attributes="member: 35036">We should follow Australia’s example. They have some good ones:Earlier this year, a Sydney man was fined $112 AU ($77 USD) for leaving his car unlocked when he went into a service station. It was such a rare event the story ended up in the news, and a lot of people realized for the first time that they had been breaking the law when they did the same thing.“If you are going to be more than three meters from your vehicle, you must secure it by turning off the engine, closing all the windows and locking all the doors.”In Victoria and Queensland, if you’re more than three meters (10 ft.) away your windows must be wound up with a gap of no more than 5 cm (2 in.), while in NSW you can only have a 2 cm (1 in.) gap. It’s illegal to have any part of your body outside of a vehicle. So no waving bye to your family. It’s illegal to honk your horn or use any warning device unless you’re justifiably warning another car. So no honking at your family as you leave. In Western Australia it’s illegal to transport more than 50 kg (110 lbs.) of potatoes in your car unless you’re a member of the Potato Corporation or an authorized agent.Break this law and you’ll face a fine of $2,000 – 5,000 AUD ($1,368 – 3,420 USD). As a person under the age of 25, you’re not allowed to drive anything with a v8, over a certain power to weight ratio, or over 100kmh (62mph, and if the speed limit is higher you still can’t go over), you have no driving/curfew hours, no more than one passenger allowed, blah blah blah. It’s a serious offense to do most modifications to cars there. I read a while back that a guy had a nice car imported from Japan, drove it for a few weeks, was pulled over. Cop went through his car, found a cold air intake, confiscated his car and had it crushed.</blockquote>

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