Car Owners Claim NSW Police Harassing Them Based on Heresay Evidence

Came across this interesting thread on the ls1 forum tonight. There sure are some scary stories there.

Imagine, as an owner of a nice car you have a dispute with your neighbour about a fence or something and it gets personal. Your neighbour then complains about you to the cops, making up false stories about the way you drive. He might also get a couple of friends to call in aswell. You then face continuous police harassment, house calls, getting pulled over etc. etc.

Thankfully I don't have many disputes, and generally get on with most people. I also don't hoon around residential areas with a loud exhaust in the middle of the night, which I think is what pisses people off the most. I have friends who accelerate at full song down their own street at 3:00 in the morning when they are coming home from a night out, and it's a habit. Then they wonder why their neighbours hate them and their cars.

The police should be out catching people acting like idiots, not relying on the general public to report each other. It's dodgy, turns people against each other, and is too open to abuse by the public.