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While it may have seemed like a good idea to remove\u00a0reckless drivers from\u00a0Queensland\u00a0streets by impounding their cars, the\u00a0ill-thought out anti-hooning policy has created another problem. Former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s<\/a>\u00a0populist venture has produced yards of unclaimed vehicles without a legislative answer.\u00a0In 2014, one year after\u00a0their introduction, Newman boasted that the laws\u00a0were,\u00a0“Australia\u2019s toughest anti-hooning laws”.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cUnder Labor, hoons controlled suburban streets and only received a slap on the wrist, but we have made families the priority by introducing these tough laws,\u201d he proclaimed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe results are significant, with more than 13,000 dangerous hoons and their cars and motorbikes taken off the road since November 2013, creating safer streets.”<\/p>\n Under the amendment to the Police Powers and\u00a0Responsibilities Act 2000<\/a>, any vehicle related\u00a0to speed trials, races, burnouts, dangerous operation or evading police could be declared\u00a0a “type 1 offence” and result\u00a0in a mandatory 90 day impoundment.<\/p>\n Two years on, what happened to all of those\u00a0vehicles?\u00a0Two recent ABC News Brisbane<\/a><\/em> reports reveal their fate and the new legal problem for the state and the Queensland Police Service (QPS).<\/p>\n Alexandra Blucher<\/a>\u00a0reported on towing company\u00a0Tow.Com.Au<\/a>\u00a0(TCA), which was\u00a0given the\u00a0exclusive contract by the government to impound the cars. Many individual tow truck drivers are sub-contracted to TCA. The\u00a0report\u00a0showed\u00a0the yards of abandoned\u00a0cars due to\u00a0the high fees charged for their retrieval by owners.<\/p>\n